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A feed people wanted to be in.

The brief

Blacktravelgram is a travel community for Black travelers. Willie joined its creative brand squad when the account had about 38,000 followers, shot travel photography for it, and helped grow it past 100,000.

For
Personal brands, Hospitality
Discipline
Social media branding
Year
2021
What we did
  • Creative brand squad: the look of the feed, post by post
  • Travel photography for the account
  • Posts for the group's trips and yacht parties in Riviera Maya, Mexico
  • Helped grow the account from about 38,000 to more than 100,000 followers
The Blacktravelgram Instagram grid: two dozen bright travel portraits of Black travelers, from Positano and Machu Picchu to Petra, Zanzibar and the Caribbean
The Blacktravelgram feed

Director's note

A travel page lives or dies on one feeling: I want to be there. Every post had to make somebody check their passport. When the grid looks like a trip people want to take, the follows take care of themselves.
Willie Bernoudy, creative director
A Blacktravelgram post: a man floating on a pink inflatable in turquoise water under the red Black Travel Gram logo, announcing a yacht party on June 3, 2021, 2pm to 6pm, only 15 spots
Trip post, Riviera Maya yacht party, 2021

Credits

  • Creative brand squad and travel photography: Willie Bernoudy
  • Feed and posts from @blacktravelgram; travelers' photos belong to the people in them

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