Genevieve Nnaji looks ethereal in a stunning photo shoot for THISDAY Style. The series is tagged “Beauty and power ” by famed photographer ,TY Bello.On what inspired the shoot,TY Bello wrote..
GENEVIEVE NNAJI:BEAUTY AND POWER
I started off my photography journey as a documentary photographer .. The images . Though they leaned towards portraiture were always very ‘strong’ and ‘gritty’. Stronger images always seemed to have more depth.. And the images were successful too., I got to have them hung in prestigious galleries and biennales around the world..from the Palais des Beaux-arts to the National centre for photography in New York. My work was finding its place in the art world .
There was always something missing though..and I knew it .I was secretly in love with beauty of a different kind.. It was missing in the work I put out on a pedestal. It became clearer when I had a long conversation with Cameroonian photographer Angele Essamba.
In the past, I would shy away from showing any one I respected in contemporary photography my portaits of beauty ., they were not ‘strong’ … I was right .. They were not . It wasn’t the beauty in the images that weakened them .. I just needed to grow. To understand beauty and to find my own approach.
Genevieve Nnaji is one of those subjects ., maybe she has her own versions of those conversations within her self. Or maybe it’s because she’s a strong beautiful woman with a clear sense of who she is.
There’s power in making a beautiful portrait .. It’s power that I’m still leaning to understand .Letting every attribute and feature tell its own story …as written by the Maker.#tybellophotography #genevievennaji#beauty #power #portrait #styled by@veronicaodeka . Makeup by@bimpeonakoya @thisdaystyle
