“For Edward to want to make a change within fashion and within the magazine, and for me to be given the opportunity to do that with him … It’s always going to be one of the pinnacle moments in my life.” “Still, to this day, I don’t think I have fully grasped the meaning of it,” she says of the Vogue cover. It had a transformative effect on her life – she now shoots for the likes of Dior, Hermès and Valentino, and you can spot her monograph, Our Own Selves, which came out last year, in bookshops from London to Tokyo. In the years that followed, more young black women have photographed the cover, including 21-year-old Kennedi Carter from North Carolina and British-Sierra Leonean photographer Adama Jalloh – but Ijewere was the one to boot the doors open at the age of 26. Two years later, she made history again as the first black woman to shoot the cover of American Vogue, this time alongside fashion editor Gabriella Karefa-Johnson, the first black woman to style a Vogue cover. In 2018, across Vogue’s 28 editions around the world, no black woman had ever photographed a cover – Ijewere became the first in its 129-year history. Ijewere is currently in the middle of prepping for Anthesis, her first solo British exhibition, which opened this week at the Huxley-Parlour gallery in Mayfair, London, five years on from that call. Dua Lipa, photographed by Nadine Ijewere, for the cover of Vogue, January 2019.
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