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The Roadmaker is a new retrospective of work by photographer James Barnor drawing from across his career, demonstrating his modernism and inherent ski...

The floral and the classical Whether or not you’re a fan of Coronation Chicken, it’s hard not to admire the woman credited with inventing it. With ‘Constance Spry and the Fashion for Flowers’ (17 May–26 September), the Garden Museum celebrates a figure with as many unexpected facets as that curious dish has ingredients. I’m looking forward to seeing some of Spry’s exuberant and unusual floral arrangements recreated (kale and artichoke extravaganzas, Instagrammers? Spry got there first), and discovering more about this one-time Hackney headmistress who provided blooms for the Qu...

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 ...

James Barnor: Accra/London – A Retrospective 19 May 2021 - 22 October 2021 / Serpentine Gallery / Art Categories Events, Exhibition / / / / The first major survey of British-Ghanaian photographer James Barnor, whose career as a studio portraitist, photojournalist and Black lifestyle photographer spans six decades and records major social and political changes in London and Accra. Born in 1929 in Ghana, James Barnor established his famous Ever Young studio in Accra in the early 1950s, capturing a nation on the cusp of independence in an ambiance animated by conversation and highlife ...

A solo exhibition celebrates six decades of James Barnor’s cosmopolitan photography in Ghana and the United Kingdom.