Bloomington, Indiana · Est. 2025

Your story, in the golden light.

Graduation portraits at Indiana University and fine-art nature photography, shot with an engineer's precision and a poet's eye.

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f/1.8 · 85mm · Golden hour · Sample Gates
Graduation sessions · IU Bloomington

Sample Gates. Cap and gown. Done right.

Golden-hour sessions across the IU campus, Sample Gates, the Arboretum, Maxwell Hall. Every package includes a planning call, location routing, and professionally edited images delivered in an online gallery within 7 days.

The Essential

Solo Session

$150 / 30 min
  • 1 campus location
  • 15 edited images
  • 1 outfit
  • Online gallery + print rights
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Most booked

Signature Session

$250 / 60 min
  • 2–3 campus locations
  • 35 edited images
  • 2 outfit changes
  • Sneak peek within 48 hours
  • Online gallery + print rights
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Groups & Greek life

Squad Session

$400 / 90 min
  • Up to 5 grads
  • Individual + group sets
  • 50+ edited images
  • Multiple locations
Book Squad

A $50 deposit via Venmo (@Albert-Essiaw) reserves your date. Fall dates open now; December grads, golden hour goes fast.

Portfolio

Four ways of seeing.

From the Sample Gates at dusk to the trails of Brown County State Park, a portfolio built on patience, light, and Southern Indiana's quiet drama.

Graduation

IU Bloomington

Landscape & Sunset

Lake Monroe

Nature & Trails

Brown County

Architecture

Campus & city
Recent work

Graduation sessions

Graduate smiling at the war memorial as cadets march past
Graduate tossing her cap into the sky
Graduate leaning against memorial pylon
Graduate portrait among stone sculptures
Graduate holding pink flowers
Graduate at the Loyalty pylon
Graduate holding her cap at the memorial
Graduate throwing cap in front of Burruss Hall
Graduate in kente stole in front of Torgersen Bridge
Two graduates celebrating together
Graduate seated on memorial steps
Graduate leaning on engraved wall
Graduate with kente stole seated at memorial court
Graduate on spiral staircase
Graduate tossing cap by campus bridge
About

Engineer by trade. Photographer by instinct.

I'm Albert Kojo Essiaw. A Ghanaian-American photographer and software engineer based in Bloomington, Indiana. KojoLens started as a way to slow down and pay attention; it became a practice of finding the exact moment light tells the truth.

The engineering shows up in how I work: planned locations, timed light, reliable delivery. The rest, the warmth, the color, and the patience comes from everywhere else I'm from.

Virginia Tech '25 · Now shooting Southern Indiana

Contact

Let's make something worth framing.

Booking fall graduation sessions now. For commissions, prints, or collaborations, reach out directly.

Book a session Email me @kojolensphoto