Wowwwww we really ate with this! What a dream to photograph a woman I truly admire.
@theestallion
x Mahaneela 💥🎮🐍
This was so fun to shoot! Thanks
@RocNation
for having me 🙏🏾
Raise awareness and share this story! Mauritius is a tiny island off the coast of Africa. There are many Africans there who depend entirely on the sea. It is their entire life force. This is truly devastating news
I was hustling like crazyyyyy & had just got my first entry level job in music. I was working 24 hours a day damn near trying to make ends meet. This year I photographed Issa and the rest of the cast at the premiere of season 5 💖💖
This is Mohammed, he’s 18 and from Mali 🇲🇱 Mohammed has only been in Accra a few months. I met him selling watches in the market of Osu and he blew me away with his beauty 😍 Someone give this boy a modelling contract!!
#peopleofghana
.
@NativeMag
x
@wizkidayo
We collaborated with Starboy to create a limited edition zine to celebrate ‘Made In Lagos’, his near-decade long reign in the game, and his team behind-the-scenes 🦅✨
🔥🔥🔥 all these stories are excellent, check out the site for in depth interviews with WizKid & his team ~ shout out to
@NativeMag
!! Images shot by me 📸
cutting people off is easier than communicating your issues. Too many people masquerade their cowardice / inability to confront an issue head on as ‘self care’ when really you just don’t wanna have a difficult conversation lol
We not hiding anymore 💚
Noname captured by me and a team of beautiful black women 💁🏾♀️
Thank you to the dream team!
Creative direction & photography by me 💁🏾♀️
Lighting & Assisted by McKayla Chandler
Styling by BT Marie
Makeup Nimai
Hair by Evie
Set design by Charnele Crandle
Some of us are really still here doing “not all white people” guys. If you can’t understand that when we have dialogue on “white people/whiteness” we aren’t referring to every single white person in the entire world, unfollow me cause it’s a burden to educate you at this point.
There was a trend going around lately about all the girls on the relaxer boxes.
I was (and still am) one of the girls on the braiding hair packs 😂 I wanna see the glow ups y’all because mine was HUGE 😂 they did me dirty for reallllll loooool and this is everywhere to this day
Super heartbreaking when you have to let someone go because they can’t help themselves. I used to get so stuck in helping people I neglected myself. Never again tbh
New workkkkk 📸 photographed by me for H&M! Loved being on set and shooting these additional stills for social 📲 ✨
Hero campaign photography/film is all by Tyler Mitchell ❤️
to all my black & brown people in London: DONT FORGET SUNSCREEN! Factor 30 and above!!! Just because we are Melinated doesn’t make us immune to sun damage. Skin cancer doesn’t discriminate remember that. & don’t forget your face because the sun ages yo skin, spf is your friend!
Went hair shop for some lipgloss and walked out wearing this wig LOL the lady really sold it to me 😂😂 thoughts???? I’m not a wig gal but I’m feeling it
Soooo proud to have made it to the
@Forbes
30 under 30 this year for Entertainment 🥲🥹 feeling seen and very loved. Thank you everyone for all the support from day one.
4 weeks ago I was hit by a truck riding my bike, it ran over my leg and I haven’t been able to walk or stand since! Today I took my first steps & my Wizkid cover story was published, today was a good day!! 😭❤️
Got some piping hot political tea: ALLEGEDLY Boris Johnson had/has been having an affair with influencer BIP LING ! thinking this must have been what the infamous argument was about 👀. She sold the story to the sun but she’s being silenced by govt who don’t want this to get out.
Being an artist is the difference between ‘i could have done that’ and ‘I did that’
There are artists that make work with tools/techniques anyone could use.. but the difference is they actually did that shit
It’s not about the medium or tools. It’s about the courage it takes.
If you are a BLACK artist... USE YOUR PLATFORM and make a point of hiring BLACK directors, BLACK photographers, BLACK stylists. The same artists yelling black power in their music but hiring white people to visually convey that.. I don’t get it 🤯 SAME goes to any POC artist tbh.
2 of my works aired on national tv yesterday 🥲 both with BLACK cinematographers and production crews, styling, makeup, talent, and even sound designers, set designers and producers… no one can tell me it’s hard to find black creatives lol. Maddazzzzz !
WHEW! 6 films I directed out tomorrow on channel 4, bbc radio interview the next day & an exhibition and talk at apple’s HQ for their employees, then straight into the edit of my latest music video for 2 very big artists (!) then NYC on the weekend. this week is pretty fantastic.
Hi
@citizenM
please can you tell me why myself and my friends (all black) were just marginalised and kicked out of your hotel workspace area during our meeting despite being paying customers? Your “manager” Patricia was extremely rude & racist. RT to raise awareness.
I tell myself every day how talented and worthy of success I am. That’s my truth & I won’t let anyone else tell me different or make me doubt myself. It’s hard though cause people still doubt you all the time.
Can’t believe I’m saying this- but I’m happy to announce I’m officially represented by
@academyfilms
as a director!
Thank you to everyone who helped me get here. And of course to the
@JFCWorldwide
fam for everything. I wouldn’t be here without you. ❤️
It’s finally happening!!! SO excited (and nervous) to share that my first ever BOOK “Through My Lens” is dropping VERY SOON! I can’t believe this day is finally here.
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