With just five years of experience under her belt, Nicole Osula displays an artistry beyond her years
The winner of the Portrait of Humanity 2020 shares her unexpected route into photography, which led to a career in creative direction and styling too.
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Nicole Osula began her journey in photography back in 2015, but you wouldn’t think her enigmatic outputs are the result of a mere five years in the industry. Self taught, the British Nigerian-Sierra Leonean photographer first became interested in the medium by asking friends to stand against brightly coloured walls. She would take out her iPhone and snap a bold take on the portrait and, over time, the occurrence became more and more frequent. From there, Nicole’s fascination with photography grew. While she was once most interested in taking pictures of pretty clouds or sprawling groups of trees, she started to look for other, more challenging subjects. More namely people, and the way identity is communicated through creat