Experience

MMG Artists

• United Arab Emirates
• Media Production
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Photographer

  • Aug 2021 - Present

  MMG Artists is a creative agency based in Dubai and Europe. Our agency represents and supports internationally established and emerging talent across Photography, Style, Beauty and Videography from all over the globe and locally. Our experience with some of the world's leading luxury brands includes the likes of Harper’s Bazaar, Elle, Marie Claire, Mojeh, Vogue Arabia, Vogue India, Cosmopolitan, Grazia, Emirates Woman, Harper’s Bazaar Art, L’Officiel, and more. We provide a unique platform that brings artists to the forefront of the fashion, beauty, architecture, still life/food and lifestyle industries. Full production services, including location scouting, are also offered to our clients upon request.



Daron Bandeira

• Berlin, Germany

• Photographer

  • Sep 2016 - Present

  +Photographer for PETA DEUTSCHLAND Campaigns with Caro Cult & Dj Mattafakka +Editorial Campaign For Pakistani Luxury Lawn Brand Qalamkar Spring Summer 2020 +Traveling Photographer for 8 Countries for DHL (Africa As One Project) For The Rugby World Cup 2015 +Photographer for renowned African Fashion Design Adele Dejak +3rd Runner Up For Canon Celebrate Africa Competition. +Exhibiting At Black Art Matter (Zurich, Switzerland) +Lifestyle & Travel Campaign For Hotels In 7 Countries. +Art Director for Mr Eazi Ft King Promise Music Video ‘DABEBI’ +RunWay Photographer Mercedes Benz Fashion Week South Africa



Afrobougee

• South Africa
• Media Production

• Creative Director

  • Jul 2012 - Present

  +Founded one of Africa’s premium creative portals delivering an invigorating perspective on all aspects of the African art spectrum. +Creating visual campaign in 14 different African country with a creative, artist & photographer network of 150 across Africa +Organising & producing art exhibition and installations in more than 3 countries. +Creating an adroit mix of fashion, art, photography, film, culture, travel content for readers, through in depth feature articles, picture galleries, exhibitions and easy to follow advice on aspect of life in the creative industries. +Lead design art director for the online magazine and editor for the website. +Managing a 9 writer network, producing interview for writers. +Designed company website. +Put together inspiring and unique stories sourced from across the continent and the African Diaspora that embrace and capture the true essence of Africans. +Social Media Content Creation & Management



A Forgotten Place Film [Motion Picture]

• South Africa

• Strategy & Content Producer [Africa]

  • May 2016 - Oct 2020

  A Forgotten Place is a narrative feature film set during the Biafran War. It’s an imaginative odyssey story that follows the simultaneous journeys of a boy and a soldier who are traveling through the vast landscapes of Nigeria in order to find family and home. +Africa Location Scout For A US Motion Picture Film +Behind The Scenes Content Creator. http://aforgottenplacefilm.com A Forgotten Place is a narrative feature film set during the Biafran War. It’s an imaginative odyssey story that follows the simultaneous journeys of a boy and a soldier who are traveling through the vast landscapes of Nigeria in order to find family and home. +Africa Location Scout For A US Motion Picture Film +Behind The Scenes Content Creator. http://aforgottenplacefilm.com



Visual Art Festival Zanzibar

• Zanzibar, Zanzibar West, Tanzania

• Founder & Chairman

  • Oct 2018 - Mar 2020

  +Board Member Of The First Visual Art Festival In Zanzibar In 40 years +Organising Exhibition, Workshops & Live Art Performance. +Curating Exhibition Sets & Installation of Giant Photo Walls +Organising & Teaching A Women In Photography Class +Training & Guiding Volunteers +Board Member Of The First Visual Art Festival In Zanzibar In 40 years +Organising Exhibition, Workshops & Live Art Performance. +Curating Exhibition Sets & Installation of Giant Photo Walls +Organising & Teaching A Women In Photography Class +Training & Guiding Volunteers



Dream Magazine

• Accra

• Freelance Art Director

  • Mar 2014 - Mar 2016

  +Spearheading the switch from wedding magazine to a luxury lifestyle magazine +Design lead for all content presented in the magazine. +Shooting magazine cover and fashion content in the magazine http://www.thedreammag.com/index.html +Spearheading the switch from wedding magazine to a luxury lifestyle magazine +Design lead for all content presented in the magazine. +Shooting magazine cover and fashion content in the magazine http://www.thedreammag.com/index.html



Duaba Serwa

• Ghana

• Publicist

  • Sep 2013 - Jul 2014

  Couture designer, Duaba Serwa, asked me to be her publicist during a very busy and exciting time as she rose to fame in the African Fashion World. I accompanied her to Mercedes Benz Africa Fashion Week 2013 in Johannesburg as her official press and handled her media for Alta Roma in Italy. Couture designer, Duaba Serwa, asked me to be her publicist during a very busy and exciting time as she rose to fame in the African Fashion World. I accompanied her to Mercedes Benz Africa Fashion Week 2013 in Johannesburg as her official press and handled her media for Alta Roma in Italy.



Canoe Africa

• Production Manager

  • Nov 2011 - Oct 2013

  My employer originally hired me to produce my music but I immediately became interested in the magazine and advertising side of things. Using online tutorials I taught myself how to use Photoshop, InDesign, how to build websites and direct photography. I was soon promoted to Art Director and continued to climb the ladder to Production Manager and finally Country Director. Manuel Of Blackness CANOE Africa is your Contemporary Handbook of Blackness. It is strategically forged to chronicle the African renaissance at the turn of the 21st Century. CANOE primarily sails for the Black African cause and ascension; featuring the positive side of Africa that is often overlooked, misinterpreted or undervalued by the global media. CANOE profiles exemplary Africans at different growth stages in their Game, unlocking and igniting that passion, necessary to develop the real resplendent potential of our continent, independent countries and her citizens. AESTHETICS - CANOE Africa is designed with a conservatively slick minimalistic aesthetic. It is not for everyone. It is printed over an uncompromising high raw material specification,employing state-of-the-art green manufacturing ethics, and bound to a peerless matt satin finish. Each issue’s content radiates from a distinctly different central theme, elected to provoke intellectual discussions while engaging the reader through a fusion of arresting images and penmanship. CANOE is for the generation of afro-patriotic professionals that are keen on positively contributing to our renascent continent: That premium calibre of decision makers, leaders and intellectuals of African origin, descent or bias. CANOE unleashes an authentic FUBU appeal time and again with the release of every issue. This Manual Of Blackness is the promise of a devoted team of professional photographers, designers and writers, working cohesively under the creative direction of a self-appointed ‘Gatekeeper’ of the African continent. www.canoeafrica.com