Nigerian iconic photographer, Born Photo is dead
The famous Nigerian ace photographer, Pa David Owolabi Ositelu popularly called ‘Born Photo’, has died in his sleep on the eve of Christmas Day, Friday, 24th December, 2021 at his private residence in Ibadan, Oyo State Capital.
Penpushing reports that, Ositelu who was born in Agege, Lagos State on Christmas Day, 25th December, 1935, breathed his last peacefully while taking nap in his iconic ‘Born Photo studio located at Basorun Apampa Street,Isale Osi area of Ibadan.
The Ekefa Olubadan of Ibadanland, Oloye Lekan Alabi confirmed the incident to Penpushing Media on Saturday, and prayed that God grant the noble soul of the 86 year old renowned photographer eternal peace
Penpushing reports that, the deceased, an indigene of Ogere-Remo,Ogun State was noticed to have passed on by Nafisat, the daughter of his friend, after returning from the Friday Jumat on December 24
The photography icon, was the photographer who took the passport photograph on the first Nigerian International passport with which the late Governor Isiaq Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State travelled to the United States of America (USA) in the early 1970’s.
Penpushing further reports that, Ositelu’s high profile clients included the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Alhaji Adegoke Adelabu Penkelemesi, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, and Colonel Adegboyega Adeniran among others.
The Ekefa Olubadan of Ibadanland also admitted and disclosed that, it was the late David Ositelu who took his(Alabi) passport photographs for his secondary school entrance examinations in 1963
Penpushing also reports that, Ositelu was commissioned into the Nigerian Army as a photographer during the Nigeria Civil War (1967 to 1970), and later became a high society photographer.
The studio is home to former Governor Rasidi Ladoja of Oyo State, who is the incumbent Osi Olubadan, as it was home to Alhaji Alimi Adesokan, popularly called “Leemy”, a late Chairman of the defunct Ibadan District Council and Parliamentary Secretary to the late Premier Samuel Ladoke Akintola of Western Nigeria, the late Captain Lateef Adegboyega Bello of the Nigerian Army, Abass Olawoyin, the goalkeeper of Nigeria Academicals Football Club ,the first Nigerian soccer team to ever defeat any Ghanaian soccer side on their soil, Iponriku Lakangudu masquerade, one of the leading seven Ibadan traditional masquerades, Raimi ‘Sango’, Paramole, both political activists, in the 1960’s and others
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