If you bump into this guy on the streets and he doesn’t have his panama hat on, assume that his signature look is incomplete. An unassuming man, Andrew Dosunmu is a creative with a thirst for creativity and travelling. Although he currently resides in New York, Andrew was born and raised in Nigeria. He started his career as a design assistant at Yves Saint Laurent (we see you going green with envy!), and moved onto other projects in the creative field- but what he’s really well known and respected for is his photography. His images have been featured in magazines across the world (Fader, Clam), and he’s also directed an award winning documentary titled Hot Irons, which featured hairstylists as they prepared for a hair competition. If you’re South African, the controversial TV show must be really familiar to you; he directed several episodes of Yizo Yizo. He’s been art director for album covers for various artists (Erykah Badu, Public Enemy) and has also directed music videos for Isaac Hayes (yes!), Angie Stone, Common, Wyclef, Kelis, Aaron Neville, Maxwell and Tracy Chapman.
Andrew is a streetstalker of note; he clearly has a love for the streets across the world. The style of a lot of his images is simply based around creating or putting glamour on the streets of the “developing world”. The photographer will put an attractive and well styled subject against this backdrop, and the results are amazing. I would venture to say that his style preference is a clue to Andrew’s character; he has deep affection for the continent and other “developing” countries and nations, and believes that beauty can be found everywhere.
