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25/10/2019
Meet Ibraheem Bolaji Akewusola [Beejay], amazing Professional, who distinctly reinforces power, efficacy of photography
By Bode Durojaiye.
Photography has a kind of power which reinforces personal integrity in good and bad times, part of which is the ability to catch these moments and preserve them for eternity.
Preservation of the environment is not possible without the aid of photography.
Visionary efforts to preserve the country’s wild and scenic areas both in films and photographs have helped to save Americans for future Americans.
By contrast, a country like Nigeria is losing a lot of information about her natural resources because her people have failed to preserve such information.
The benefits are therefore lost to the present and future generations.
But here is a young professional man, Alhaji Ibraheem Bolaji Akewusola, who is inclined to photography, strived conscientiously and devotedly towards reinforcing rein-forcing the power and efficacy of the vocation.
Beejay as he is being popularly referred to is an intelligent graduate of History, proactive, hardworking, pragmatic, and core professional whose knowledge in the art of photography spanning decades is not only distinct, but source of inspiration to upcoming generation.
No wonder, Beejay’s wonder lenses at different occasions so much attracted His Imperial Majesty, the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba [Dr.] Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi 111, that the monarch sent for him and appointed Ibraheem Bolaji Akewusola as His official Chief Photographer.
As a trustworthy, reliable and dependable married young man with children, Beejay, is also a member of the Palace Media and Publicity Unit,
In a chat, Beejay noted that photography reveals the dramatic image of instant history as it gives the technical details which words and painting fail to capture, just as it retains the profound emotion and keeps it real for posterity.
According to him, ‘’photography embraces all aspects of human communications and try to show why for instance, when you look at your picture, your reactions are either to smile, get excited, to frown, or it brings back memories, or helps you to develop a feeling of pride about yourself so much so that you want to send copies to your loved ones or to hang it on the wall of your room.
‘’You do not doubt the ability of the photograph to represent your interests, physically, emotionally and spiritually. Photographs then tells who you are, what you are, and says what you want to say about yourself. The receiver, also by looking at it and interpreting the picture communicates and may even commune with you emotionally and spiritually’’.
He recalled that since the advent of photography about a hundred and fifty years ago or thereabout, the media have improved their credibility, adding that ‘’even then, photography reveals the dramatic image of instant history as it gives the technical details which words and painting fail to capture.
He pointed out that photography retains the profound emotion and keeps it real for posterity.
Stressing on how photography reinforces information dissemination, Bolaji explained that ‘’ it embraces all aspects of human communications and try to show why for instance, when you look at your picture, your reactions are either to smile, get excited, to frown, or it brings back memories, or helps you to develop a feeling of pride about yourself so much so that you want to send copies to your loved ones or to hang it on the wall of your room, or establish mutual relationship. ‘’
‘’You do not doubt the ability of the photograph to represent your interests, physically, emotionally and spiritually. The photograph then tells who you are, what you are, and says what you want to say about yourself. The receiver, also by looking at it and interpreting the picture communicates and may even commune with you emotionally and spiritually.
‘’it is not that knowledge and information cannot be given and received by verbal and other non-verbal cues, yet, speech is the primary medium of communication. Messages are also given through gestures, body language or given with clothe. The difference is that all these disappear immediately after the activities.
‘’Speech is un-retrievable unless recorded, so it can hardly be admitted in evidence. There is no dispute about the importance of writing as a tool for advancing [not initiating] the world civilization. But reading and writing are restricted only to the ‘’literate’’ populations. It is arguable that the most effective modern day communication system includes telephone, letter writing and so on. But none of them gives the impact which photography creates.’’
