'No duds': James Barnor's photographs capture the rapidly changing societies of Ghana and the UK
James Barnor's Sick Hagemeyer shop assistant, Accra (around 1971) Courtesy of Autograph The British-Ghanaian photographer James Barnor made his start on the streets of Accra in pre-Independence Ghana using borrowed equipment. By 1953 he had started his own studio called Ever Young in the Jamestown area of Accra, which was visited by civil-servants, dignitaries, artists and newly-weds alike. The images he took there were ostensibly formal portraits but set against elaborate painted backgrounds and, thanks to his rapport with his sitters, they fizz with energy. “He ...
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