Since Accidentally Photobombing A Photoshoot, This Woman's Life Has Changed
Sometimes, you work your ass off for years only to be let down. And sometimes, great things just fall in your lap.
Such is the case for Nigerian model, Olajumoke Orisaguna.
During a photoshoot for English rapper and producer Tinie Tempah in Lagos, Nigeria, a local bread merchant accidentally photobombed one of the shots.
Tempah, who was quite captivated by the woman, asked photographer Ty Bello to consider using her for additional photos, but initially, Bello wasn't convinced.
"Some people asking her to leave the set and others asking her to stay. I signaled [to ask] if it was ok to take her photograph and she agreed, and I pressed on my shutter so she could move ahead," Bello told Huffington Post.
After posting the photo to Instagram, comments about the woman's graceful presence flooded in.
"Who is she?" Bello wrote. "Everyone has been asking if this lady is a model... It was a perfect coincidence... She just happened to be walking by while I photographed. It happened so fast."
After taking a further look at pictures of her, Bello began to realize her gut reaction was wrong. "I was wrong to have paid her such little attention. Every frame with her in it was perfect."
After tracking her down, Bello offered the Nigerian bread merchant, named Olajumoke Orisaguna, an opportunity to be in a photoshoot of her own.
And she was absolutely stunning.
But even more enchanting than Orisaguna's photogenic look and natural ability, is her story.
"A hair stylist from Ire in Osun state but not making enough profit between her and her husband, - a sliding door installer from same village, - to care for their two young children," Bello recalls.
"At the invitation of a distant relative who knew someone operating a bakery, she relocated to Lagos with her 14-month-old daughter to give bread hawking a try, leaving her husband and older five-year-old behind."
"As I listened to her I wondered if the beauty I had seen on my screen as I edited my image was a fluke... well until she smiled. I realised that I was wrong. I had in fact, underestimated the beauty of this 27-year-old woman."
Not long after Bello published her shoot of Orisaguna, she was featured on the cover of Nigerian magazine, This Day Style.
"This just made me cry," wrote Bello. "She really is a blessed woman with an amazing story. I almost can't believe it."
But her meteoric success didn't end there. Not more than a few weeks after Bello's shoot was published, Orisaguna signed with Few Model Management.
From hair stylist, to bread seller, to acclaimed model, the past month has been quite the exciting journey for Orisaguna and her family - all thanks to an incidental photobomb.