Photographer Andrew Dosunmu Brings Worlds Together in His New Book

“I love both that seamlessness of brothers and the dissimilarities—that’s what I’m attracted to when I’m photographing,” Dosunmu, who grew up in Nigeria and England, says in a café in his Crown Heights neighborhood. A prime example is a spread of two facing pictures from Jamaica. It’s as if Dosonmu’s camera peels away the walls, so that two interior spaces are suddenly joined, like mirror reflections. Famous and familiar faces, most not credited by name, slip into these pages discreetly—a portrait of André 3000 pops up as surprisingly as the Outkast musician himself and his flute might, in random airports and settings all over the world. Even when working on fashion commissions, Dosunmu prefers to find models on location. “It was always about real people,” he says. “Going to India, Senegal, Vietnam, wherever, and casting people off the streets.”