President Muhammadu Buhari has Bayo Omoboriowo and former President Goodluck Jonathan had TY Bello.
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has a personal photographer too.
Her name is Novo Lilian Isioro.
She calls the law professor and his wife, Dolapo, “truly parents”.
A picture of the country’s second couple consoling the ace photographer on December 21 shortly after the death of her father recently went viral on social media.
After almost two weeks of silence, Novo kicked off the New Year with a message about “A man so strong, so positive, so everything gone at 63 years from a life solidly lived.”
Novo is the founder and creative director at NovoImages, a company specialising in creating crisp photography services for individuals and corporate organisations.
A Higher National Diploma (HND) holder in bilingual office technology management from the Yaba College of Technology, Novo also has a Certificate of Study in French communications from the University of Lome.
She is also Nigeria Institute of Public Relations (NIPR) certified.
Her biography published by invisible-borders.com reads:
Her art explores the relationship she often has with herself and her immediate society. Her work is influenced by social issues, need to emphasize reality, historical events and in a way uses them to tell stories about the dynamism of a society. She explores the idea of “passing times”, and the general concept of “being”. She uses her image in a narrative way – by telling a story with her image(s), she emphasize her own reality. Her work has been published in Local and international magazines and newspaper recently Le Monde (African series 2015). She is working on a life-time project: The Corporate Life of a Market Woman – which explores the relationship the woman being the major dominance of the market arena has with herself and her work influence on the African economy. URUPE in Nigeria- explores the severe trapped state of electricity in Nigeria and the lack of escape route. When she is not photographing, she is dancing salsa.
She has taken part in the following exhibitions:
56th Venice Biennale “All the World’s Futures” – Venice, Italy 2015
Where the Nile meets – Sudan 2014
Lagos Photo Festival (Group exhibition), Lagos 2013
Addis Foto Fest, (Invisible Borders Group Exhibition) Ethiopia 2012
Biennale Benin, (Invisible Borders Group Exhibition) Benin 2012
She is a member of the Professional Photographers of America, Black Female Photographers and Invisible Borders Trans-African Organisation.
Her works have featured on Aljazeera, BBC, South African FM, and prints of Le-Monde Paris among others.
The ace photographer describes herself as “lover of life”.
In spite of her recent loss she describes 2016 as “a year with several blessings on all sides which all the later hurts couldn’t possibly rob me of.”
She looks “forward to unravel 2017, conquering all aspect if for nothing because dad would love that.”
No doubt, Prof Osinbajo will be glad to hear that.
