Akira Joseph Photography

11 months ago

We used akira for our engagement pictures (Jan 2024) and our wedding (August 2024). Engagement shoot was amazing, received all photos back in a timely manner. Our wedding has been a completely different story. We had a small rain delay that ultimately caused akira to leave the wedding before we even cut our cake at the end of the night. He said”his time was up.” I guess in the end, that doesn’t really matter because receiving our pictures has been a nightmare. He gave us the run around for a while and then admitted that something happened to his hard drive and all of our pictures from our reception are lost. We have received all pictures from getting ready, ceremony and family but NONE from our reception. He promised a refund for the time that pictures were lost, about 1 1/2 hours worth of pictures. Now it is almost a year since our wedding and we still have not received a refund. Akira has been ignoring our messages for around 2 months now. Last communication was beginning of May when he said we should have our refund by May 25, 2025. I understand things happen but we have been very patient in this unfortunate circumstance. Akira says he has had an injury preventing him from doing a lot but that does not mean we can be ignored nor not receive the refund that HE initiated since we will never get all of our pictures. This is completely unacceptable for a business. Do not use this photographer.

2 months ago

Booked Akira for an engagement photoshoot and the end result was disappointingly amateur at best. There was no depth to any of the photos, they were dull and lacked focus and clarity, edited photos were flat and we had to ask him to remove garbage, pimples, fix blemishes, etc from what was supposed to be a final product. What made the experience even worst than the quality of the photos was poor communication skills. Not only would we relay our disappointment with the quality but it would go days unacknowledged, prompting us to have to follow up multiple times. My last message to him was of disappointment, as they were the only photos we took of our engagement on the island and the end result was far from what he advertises on his instagram page. It’s been weeks and as usual no response or communication. Like most businesses once the vendor receives payment they see their duty as completed, regardless of how happy the client is with the outcome. The assumption can only be, that international clients who leave the island are seen as a cash cow, as it would cost them yet again to return to address issues or challenges. In my opinion I would suggest any random person on the streets of Barbados and ask them to take a few photos with your phone rather than pay Akira for his services. He is not fit to immortalise your special moments based on my very unfortunate experience.

3 years ago

Akira Joseph has been one of the worst nightmare for our wedding. He took pre-wedding pictures for our registry wedding which he never delivered. We contracted the wedding video to him, again we haven't seen any footage. The wedding pictures he managed to give us was rushed and rough, not airbrushed. What we have for memories are the pictures we took using our phones. It's been over a year trying to get him to give us our remaining pictures and video or just come out and pay us back the money he collected. I won't recommend him. I have attached a photo taken with one of our phone showing the beach pictures being taken by Akira which we never received.

a year ago

Akira is the one to go to no doubt! He went above and beyond what had been asked on my engagement photos to make sure the pictures were perfect. The pictures turned out absolutely incredible and he was super easy to work with. If you are wanting to get photos done choose Akira. 10/10 would use him again if we ever went back there.

2 years ago

Akira's the man. He is very helpful with poses and he is confident picking scenic and technically challenging shots. I booked him for an engagement shoot. The photos came out great and everyone was raving about them. So he was naturally the best choice to take our wedding photos! With Akira, you do not have to worry about the quality.