Akintola Hanif (born 1972) is an American photographer based in Newark, New Jersey.
[1][2][3] Born in Brooklyn, New York, Hanif is a photographer who primarily creates portraits of marginalized and dispossessed people, especially people of color, in the tradition of Jamel Shabazz, Richard Avedon, or Gordon Parks.
"[3] Hanif opened his photo studio, Hycide, in 2009 and founded a photojournal by the same name in 2011.
[5][6] He curated the exhibition, "Off White," at Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts in 2016.
[7] In 2020 Hanif won a Creative Catalyst Artist Fellowship Grant from Newark Arts.