Lola Akinmade Åkerström is an award-winning visual storyteller, international bestselling author, and travel entrepreneur. She has dispatched from 80+ countries and her work has been featured in National Geographic, New York Times, The Guardian, BBC, CNN, Travel Channel, Travel + Leisure, Lonely Planet, Forbes, and many more. She has collaborated with commercial brands such as Dove, Mercedes Benz, Intrepid Travel, Electrolux, and National Geographic Channel, to name a few.
As a storyteller, Lola was the 2018 Bill Muster Travel Photographer of the Year. Her book, DUE NORTH, received the Lowell Thomas Gold Award for Best Travel Book. She is also author of international bestselling "LAGOM: The Swedish Secret of Living Well" which is available in 18 foreign language editions & bestselling critically-acclaimed novels, IN EVERY MIRROR SHE'S BLACK and EVERYTHING IS NOT ENOUGH.
Her photography is in the National Geographic Image Collection.
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