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writer, director & photographer 👸🏾 occasional DJ • creative director • tings @cozydotglobal • mgmt / creative @denaimoore 🇮🇳 🇬🇭 🇯🇲 🏳️‍🌈

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@foxyneela
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3 months
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 🙏🏾
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@foxyneela
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4 years
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
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Drone footage shows the extent of the oil spill in Mauritius
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@foxyneela
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2 years
One of those days
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@foxyneela
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3 months
Photo by ME! 🥹🩷💜
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3 months
Megan Thee Stallion for her new single “BOA”
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@foxyneela
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5 years
This is a PSA: YOU ARE NOT ENTITLED TO ME, MY ATTENTION, MY TIME, NO MATTER HOW NICE I AM TO YOU OR HOW COOL YOU THINK WE ARE Thanks, Management
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@foxyneela
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3 years
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 💖💖
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Nae ✨
3 years
It’s wild to think about where you were in life, when Insecure premiered on HBO in Fall 2016 and where you are now. WOW.
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@foxyneela
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4 years
The 🐐 @wizkidayo photographed by me for @NativeMag 💫
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@foxyneela
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4 years
I feel like we are in a black mirror episode. Nothing feels real
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@foxyneela
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5 years
Captured @FKAtwigs serving us custom Ed Marler at the VMAs in New York tonight 🧚‍♀️✨
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@foxyneela
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4 years
Stop emailing creatives for “rates“ and just tell them your budget challenge... Go!
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@foxyneela
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2 years
Don’t think I’ve shared these… @wizkidayo for @NativeMag photographed by me 💚🖤🤍
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@foxyneela
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6 years
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
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@foxyneela
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4 years
Photographed by me! 📷📷📷
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. @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 🦅✨
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@foxyneela
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5 years
I had to rub my eyes, 2019???
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@foxyneela
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4 years
🔥🔥🔥 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 📸
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@foxyneela
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5 years
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
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@foxyneela
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2 years
Face 💳
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@foxyneela
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4 years
Jumping on the bandwagon! #VogueChallenge
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@foxyneela
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3 years
Gorgeous gorgeous girls eat fried plantain 😋
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@foxyneela
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5 years
liquid gold
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@foxyneela
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4 years
Directed by meeeee 😅😅😅
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4 years
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@foxyneela
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3 years
Photographed the beautiful @Normani behind the scenes of the #BlackOwnedFriday music video directed by @FlexGodDaps for Google 🙌🏾✨
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@foxyneela
Mahaneela
4 years
Studio officially DONE ✅ proud of myself 😭😭😭😭 my own space to just create n work n vibe. Finallyyyyyyy
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@foxyneela
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3 months
🩷💖🩷💖 @theestallion still can’t believe I took these 😮‍💨😮‍💨
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@foxyneela
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2 years
More in love with myself than I have ever been.
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@foxyneela
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4 years
The water in December of last year 😭💔
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@foxyneela
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5 years
I am going to have an amazing career defining moment this year
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@foxyneela
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4 years
Some stills from the new video I just directed for @TreySongz DP: Quinn Feldman 🎥
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@foxyneela
Mahaneela
5 years
Some BTS I shot of @mickjenkins music video on set in Portland, Jamaica 🇯🇲
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@foxyneela
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3 months
Another 1 😇💖 Photographed by meeee
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Stallion Access
3 months
Megan Thee Stallion for her new single “BOA”
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@foxyneela
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10 months
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
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@foxyneela
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6 years
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.
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@foxyneela
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5 years
FKA twigs at home, photographed by me. 🛀🏾✨
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@foxyneela
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2 years
I like the woman I’m becoming.
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@foxyneela
Mahaneela
2 years
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
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@foxyneela
Mahaneela
3 years
So happy to share this editorial I shot with my dear friend and the incredible talent that is Wunmi Mosaku ❤️‍🔥 Full credits via the article!
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@foxyneela
Mahaneela
3 years
Photographed by mee 💘💘💘💘
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3 years
Yvonne. Orji. That’s it. That’s the caption.😫🙌🏾
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@foxyneela
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5 years
Had to catch some selfies in the sun 🌞
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@foxyneela
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5 years
twigs last night on home turf, she didn’t come to play games. ICONIC! 💥💥💥
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@foxyneela
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5 years
I did it!!! 🙈🙈🙈
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@foxyneela
Mahaneela
5 years
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
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@foxyneela
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5 years
Sun’s out 🌞🌞
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@foxyneela
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5 years
Directed by ya girl
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@foxyneela
Mahaneela
7 years
Living our BEST LIVES in Goa, India right now 🌅🚌🇮🇳❤️
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@foxyneela
Mahaneela
3 years
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 ❤️
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@foxyneela
Mahaneela
4 years
Video via savethereef on IG
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@foxyneela
Mahaneela
2 years
🫠🥲🇯🇲 Jamaica’s beauty is unmatched.
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@foxyneela
Mahaneela
5 years
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!
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@foxyneela
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5 years
New do 🧝🏾‍♀️
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@foxyneela
Mahaneela
5 years
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
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@foxyneela
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1 year
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.
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@foxyneela
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4 years
Black life matters! Black love mattters!!!
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@foxyneela
Mahaneela
4 years
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!! 😭❤️
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@foxyneela
Mahaneela
3 years
People really don’t understand how much goes into filmmaking
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@foxyneela
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4 years
Today’s uploads to my IG. True Blue 💎
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@foxyneela
Mahaneela
5 years
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.
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@foxyneela
Mahaneela
2 years
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.
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@foxyneela
Mahaneela
6 years
Visual for @vanjess - Another Lover (prod. @KAYTRANADA ) drops later today! Directed by me 📽
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@foxyneela
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6 years
Self
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@foxyneela
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6 years
Documentation of self 🦄
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@foxyneela
Mahaneela
5 years
Really kicking #BlackHistoryMonth off with a bang! My work exhibiting at 🍏 HQ in London! 💥
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@foxyneela
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5 years
This is sooooo lovely!!! Want to see more storytelling like this
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Gavin is 25. Julie is 76. They met by chance in a market four years ago and they've had each other's backs since.
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@foxyneela
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5 years
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.
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@foxyneela
Mahaneela
4 years
A seat at the table was a neccessary album for our generation, I have to say
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@foxyneela
Mahaneela
3 months
Moreeee moreeeee!! 😍😍 Photographs by me 📸☺️
@theestallion
TINA SNOW
3 months
Stream BOA 🕹️🐍 Hotties I think I should drop a little mini game for #BOA 🤔what yall think? 👀 drop some “🎮🎮🎮” if yall want it!
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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 !
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@foxyneela
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6 years
@sarahditum Fuck you sarah.
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@foxyneela
Mahaneela
5 years
Gyal like twigs, shot by me 📸
@FKAtwigs
FKA twigs
5 years
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@foxyneela
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5 years
Today was pretty fantastic 💫 #todayatapple
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5 years
Sweet potato pie 🥧
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@foxyneela
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3 years
Guys 😭😭 I created a whole show... for Nike 😭😭😭😭
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@foxyneela
Mahaneela
4 years
Mentally, I’m here 🇯🇲
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@foxyneela
Mahaneela
2 years
🎀🖼💗💓🍄🧠
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@foxyneela
Mahaneela
4 years
Yooo this HD gif tho 😍
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𝖍𝖆𝖐𝖊𝖊𝖒
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Are You That Somebody? (1998)
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@foxyneela
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5 years
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.
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@foxyneela
Mahaneela
3 years
Turned 28 yesterday 🌞
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@foxyneela
Mahaneela
5 years
The process. Slides from my treatment for @mickjenkins new video. Produced by @sadelawson ⭐️
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@foxyneela
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6 years
I don’t mind being alone, I like solitude. but loneliness is something else
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@foxyneela
Mahaneela
6 years
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.
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@foxyneela
Mahaneela
5 years
Unreleased editorial w/ @ShoMadjozi 🐉 Shot by me in Johannesburg, 2018 Styled by @DenieceMarz
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@foxyneela
Mahaneela
6 years
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.
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@foxyneela
Mahaneela
6 years
Out now!! Another Lover - @vanjess (Prod. @KAYTRANADA ) Directed by me. 📽
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@foxyneela
Mahaneela
2 years
Oh Jamaica 🇯🇲🥲🥹
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@foxyneela
Mahaneela
5 years
Black women really are it. Adrienne photographed by yours truly 🌹
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@foxyneela
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5 years
@rmvnda @SelinaNBrown 💇🏾‍♀️💇🏾‍♀️💇🏾‍♀️
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@foxyneela
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2 years
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@foxyneela
Mahaneela
4 years
Had my first client shoot in the new studio today 😌😌
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@foxyneela
Mahaneela
6 years
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. ❤️
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@foxyneela
Mahaneela
2 years
My US visa just got approved til 2025 🥲🥲🥲😀😀😀😀😀😀
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@foxyneela
Mahaneela
4 years
Adwoa photographed by me for @Nike a few weeks back! 📸📸 Assisted by @SUNFLOWAYZ
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@foxyneela
Mahaneela
4 years
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. Follow this thread for updates / sign up to my newsletter 😀
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@foxyneela
Mahaneela
2 years
I’m in a big mood 🕶🕶
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@foxyneela
Mahaneela
5 years
The unicorn queen herself @FKAtwigs in NYC yesterday ✨ Shot by me!
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@foxyneela
Mahaneela
3 years
Speaking on a panel today at Oxford University today... and I don’t even have a uni degree hehe
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@foxyneela
Mahaneela
5 years
Living my best lifeeee doing stretches on the beach 😌😌🌞🌞
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@foxyneela
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1 year
Sometimes I have to come back on here to remind ya’ll (and myself) I’m talented AND hot !!!
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