Posts in category: photography/videography

James Barnor, the 93-year-old Ghanaian photo master, has shot against the shifting tectonic plates of Africa’s colonial liberation and Britain’s Swinging Sixties and Windrush generation: political, sports and media personalities; fashion and album covers; the African diaspora community; and everyday folk. His intimate images possess a formalism in their framing and sumptuousness in their prints – but most of all, there is love…

Read more : https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2022/7/4/james-barnor-life-in-colour-for-ghanas-first-photojournalist

(Reuters) – A generation before the Gold Coast became Ghana, local photographer J.K. Bruce-Vanderpuije opened a small studio in the then-colonial capital Accra, where his family would become the de facto visual historians of a nation that had not yet been born…

Read more : https://www.reuters.com/article/ghana-photography-idAFKBN2Q10N6