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Five years after she became the first black woman to photograph the cover of the renowned fashion magazine, Ijewere has her first solo British exhibition. She talks about getting ‘that call’, celebrating different kinds of beauty – and not getting typecastWhen Nadine Ijewere got the call from British Vogue, she was on the top deck of a bus. The number 53, she thinks – it was all a blur. She thought she was on her way to talk to the magazine’s then editor-in-chief, Edward Enninful, and its senior contributing fashion editor, Kate Phelan, about her first fashion story for the venerable publication – an exciting prospect for any up-and-coming photographer. But Phelan let her know that Enninful was about to ask her to shoot the cover – a blockbuster featuring Dua Lipa, the actor Letitia Wright and model Binx Walton.“I was like, huh?” Ijewere says. “In my head I kept going: ‘What the fuck, I can’t believe this is happening!’” Continue reading...