Tami Oladipo came to photography through storytelling. She spent years building a career in words, as a writer and then as a content creator at Buffer, where she learned how much of a story a single image can carry. After getting the chance to shoot with a real camera while on vacation, thanks to her friend Mohammed, Tami slowly but surely turned what started out as a hobby turned into a second career.

Based in Lagos, she moves between portraiture, editorial work and the unplanned moments of everyday city life. That instinct for narrative shapes her client work, from press portraits to pre-wedding sessions, and her personal projects, which she writes about in her newsletter, The Rawphile.

She’s happiest when a shoot turns a subject into a collaborator, and when the work takes her somewhere new.