Photographer Nadine Ijewere is championing diversity

South Londoner Nadine Ijewere is part Jamaican, part Nigerian. Markedly unlike her industry contemporaries, the fashion and portrait photographer champions diversity, and wrote her dissertation The Misrepresentation of Representation (for her BA in fashion photography at London College of Fashion) on orientalist and western ideologies. However, looking through Nadine’s work is striking not because of its cultural diversity, but for the gaping lack that it reveals in the work of other fashion photographers.

Since graduating, Nadine has documented mixed race women in London and further afield. Among ongoing projects in her personal work, Nadine has a sibling portrait series called Same//Difference and Flowers which looks at the meaning of beauty. She has shot for clients including Dazed, i-D, Selfridges, Gap, Ray Ban, Nike, Liberty and many more.

Her carefully-rendered photographs are highly-staged, with many of the sitters posed in impressively detailed sets. The results are meta, stylised and strikingly beautiful.