Building your portfolio & Standing Out

Joshua Bamidele is a Nigerian amateur photographer who started out his journey by borrowing his friend’s camera on weekends. Brandon Woelfel is one of his main inspirations. The 20 years-old dreams to become a professional photographer, inspiring therefore young Africans. He loves taking portraits, travel, landscape, and food photos and always prefers the photo to be dramatic & moody. Joshua’s plan is to build a strong portfolio to get paid opportunities. He advises future photographers to “just start from where you are, with what you have even if it’s only with a mobile phone.” Joshua continues with “be different, cause there’s over 10,000 or more photographers on this planet earth, what makes you stand out is your style.”