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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

Press. Mentions. Features.

 
 
  • CLICK MAGAZINE’s Juneteenth 2021: 101 Black American photographers you need to know

  • mater mea-Black Moms Abroad: I Regret Coming Back to America

  • dayka robinson’s into the wild magazine-issue #2

  • EBONY MAGAZINE-ALL EYES ON US: WHEN BLACK CULTURE GOES GLOBAL

  • The atlanta voice- The mind of Miya Bailey: Transforming a neighborhood, one venue at a time (mention)

  • the atlanta voice-Six Metro Atlanta moms remain strong during the pandemic

  • huffington post-Miya Bailey: The Artist's Artist

  • DESIGN SPONGE-CREATIVITY, STORYTELLING, AND ROLLING WITH THE PUNCHES WITH BESSIE AKUBA

  • HUFFINGTON POST-HOW RODNEY “DARKCHILD” JERKINS CONTINUES TO EVOLVE WHILE CREATING PLATFORMS THAT ALLOW FOR CREATIVE FREEDOM

  • HUFFINGTON POST-IF YOU KNOW THE WORDS, FEEL FREE

  • (Additional Huffington Post Article Contributions Here)

  • MEDIUM-AGE DON’T MEAN SH**



 
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
August 2025. A well balanced month. We give thanks. ⚖️🤲🏾✨
Alicia Smith, 49, Global Non-Profit Executive 

@ourkindofwomen: How do you honor both who you were and who you are becoming?

@iamaliciasmith: When I was in my 20s and 30s, I thought 40 was old. Now at 49, with 50 around the corner, I laugh at the f