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Bessie Akuba | Atlanta Based Creative Producer I Visual Storyteller
about
portfolio
press. mentions. features.
contact : booking
Bessie Akuba | Atlanta Based Creative Producer I Visual Storyteller
about
portfolio
press. mentions. features.
contact : booking
What Moving 5,000 Miles Away From My Home Town Did for My Creativity
Bessie Akuba 2/13/19 Bessie Akuba 2/13/19

What Moving 5,000 Miles Away From My Home Town Did for My Creativity

When I moved from away from Atlanta, a city I lived in ALL of my life, I left behind behavior patterns, creative habits, and a lot of comfort, that was not really benefiting me.

New environments allow us to create new habits and new routines.

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This is us… @bessieakuba + @terrijvaughn  telling the story of @ourkindofwomen: choosing themselves with intention, being a mirror and bearing witness to presence, evolution, and the power of becoming visible to yourself! 💫💫 💫

Thank you @_
For those that have known me for a while..Remember when I was writing quite a bit? Yea? Well she’s back. 

New post on my Substack about the power of community and divine feminine creativity…

Link in bio…

#okow #community #subst
2025 Akuba Mixtape: Highlights + What 2025 taught me about myself and what not…. 🥂

Onward.
When I started my Our Kind of Women @ourkindofwomen project in January, it was always about more than photographs. It was about making Black women feel seen, about identity, presence, legacy, reinvention…and more. 

Over the past year as I&rsq
A quick trip to Spain to see my ‘baby’ brother get married. After spending one night in Barcelona, most of the wedding guests and family piled onto two tour buses for a two hour journey south of Barcelona to an old castle (that we had to
Thank you October. 💫✨
It’s been years since I’ve been the subject of another artist/photographer’s gaze. And I desperately needed updated images of me for my website and other media material. Enter, artist/photographer extraordinaire @phyllis.iller &hell
🕯️🕊️🖤 
📷 @bessieakuba D’Angelo Frankfurt, Germany 2015

#dangelo
september. 💛 yes, thank you. More please.
Kaira Akita, 46, Founder+ Creator 

@ourkindofwomen What feels sacred about being a woman in this chapter? 

@kairaakita Mmmm…What feels sacred about being a woman in this chapter is that I actually have the wisdom, the knowledge, the tools, t
A Sunday well spent at the High with daughter and sonshine 💛..

#faithringgold #artistmom
Leslie M. Greene, 55, Film + Television Casting Director 

@ourkindofwomen: What has blossomed in you that you never saw coming?

@rtsecasting: Me loving myself. Mmmhmm…I never saw that coming. Umm..Wow. I don’t know if I ever said that