I’m a big believer in Beauty. I love to see the beauty in everything, everyone and basically every situation. This has been the way I’ve lived my life up to this present moment.
Shooting portraits make me a part of a beautifying process of my subjects. It allows me to share a moment with them, therefore enabling me to engage with my subjects. In every portrait I create, there’s always an innate conversation. I put myself and my subject in a very comfortable position so the images can appear as naturally as is possible because beauty is not meant to be forced, it never was and hopefully never should be.
I shoot because I can and love to.
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Femi Akeusola (aka Vanilla Boy) is a Portrait Photographer based in Lagos, Nigeria. He’s the Creative Director of King Femii Photo and the Vanilla Factory
