Lola Akinmade Åkerström

Lọlá Ákínmádé Åkerström is an award-winning visual storyteller, international bestselling author, and travel photographer. She has dispatched from over 80+ countries and her work has been featured in National Geographic, The New York Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, BBC, CNN, Travel Channel, Travel + Leisure, Lonely Planet, Forbes, and many more. She has collaborated with commercial brands such as Dove, Getty Images, Mercedes Benz, Intrepid Travel, Electrolux, ASUS, and National Geographic Channel, to name a few.

As a storyteller, Lọlá was featured on Condé Nast Traveler’s “Women Who Travel Power List.” She was named one of the “Most Influential Women in Travel” by Travel Pulse, a Hasselblad Heroine in partnership with prestigious Hasselblad camera brand, and Bill Muster Travel Photographer of the Year by the Society of American Travel Writers. She was also honored with a MIPAD 100 (Most Influential People of African Descent) Award within media and culture and a Newsweek Future of Travel Storytelling Award, to name a few recognitions. She has also been featured in several solo and group exhibitions around the world, including most recently Hasselblad Foundation’s Fotosalongen and Liljevalchs’s Vårsalongen.