{"id":207288,"date":"2022-01-17T07:30:13","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T07:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/women-behind-the-lens-she-was-too-beautiful-not-to-be-photographed"},"modified":"2022-01-17T07:30:13","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T07:30:13","slug":"women-behind-the-lens-she-was-too-beautiful-not-to-be-photographed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/women-behind-the-lens-she-was-too-beautiful-not-to-be-photographed","title":{"rendered":"Women behind the lens: &#8216;She was too beautiful not to be photographed&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Portrait of a young Fulani lady, Yobe 2020 Photograph: Etinosa Yvonne I met this woman in Machina, in Yobe state, when I was on assignment in northern Nigeria 2020. It had taken us seven hours to get there &#8211; it&#8217;s right on the border with Niger &#8211; and it was already late afternoon, early evening. We were waiting for people to come and collect water from a solar-powered water pump when I saw her: this extremely beautiful Fulani woman. I was particularly drawn to the marks on her face. I knew Fulani women always like to look good, but it was really beautiful to see up close. There was a bit of a language barrier as I don&#8217;t speak Fula and she didn&#8217;t speak English or Hausa, but she agreed to have her photo taken. Because it was 5.30&#8211;6pm, the light was soft and although it was a very hot region close to the desert &#8211; I remember at the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Etinosa Yvonne recalls a chance encounter with a Fulani woman in northern Nigeria<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,363,19,451,442,102],"class_list":["post-207288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-celebrities","tag-desert","tag-entertainment","tag-photography","tag-visual-art","tag-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}