Adut Akech In 'Get Ready' With Temptations Crowd Lensed By Nadine Ijewere For Vogue US February 2019
/ Anne Enke
Rising superstar model (and ALWAYS a refugee model, she says) Adut Akech appears with the cast of ‘Aint Too Proud - The Life and Times of The Temptations’, played by Ephraim Sykes, Jeremy Pope, Jawan M. Jackson, James Harkness, and Derrick Baskin.
Adut is lensed by Nadine Ijewere in ‘Get Ready’ with styling by Gabriella Karefa-Johnson for Vogue US February 2019./ Hair by Lacy Redway; makeup by Emi Kaneko.
Photographer Nadine Ijewere
The southeast London-born Nadine Ijewere made fashion history in the January 2019 issue of British Vogue, as the first woman of color to shoot any cover of any Vogue in the world EVER in 125 years. British entertainer Dua Lipa was her subject, joined by Letitia Wright ande Binx Walton for the editorial ‘Youth Quake’.
Her work focuses primarily on the subjects of identity and diversity, informed by her own Nigerian/Jamaican background. She is drawn to non-traditional faces with the aim of showcasing a new standard of beauty and giving life to the uniqueness of disparate cultures. In 2016 Nadine Ijewere’s work was featured in The Tate Britain Generation exhibition and more recently at Unseen Amsterdam and Lagos Photo Festival in 2017.
We share the photographer’s recent work and Instagram.
Model Adut Akech
AOC has closely followed the rise of Adut Akech and all the self-described “refugee models”, taking the fashion industry by storm. It’s a hallelujah moment for many of us.
