Photography

From crawling babies to ‘cool Constance’, Barnor spent decades capturing his country’s independence and the diaspora experience during the swinging 60s. Alfred Quarshie by the advertising board of the Ever Young Studio, circa 1955. …

My name is Moyinoluwa Oluwaseun. I’m 7 years old, I take pictures. We a person is taller than me or there’s a group of people ad e, I’m too short. All I need to do is just climb on a chair to take from their head to their feet. I…

For Olajumoke Orisaguna, life was a challenge. She had to leave her husband and village to earn money for her two young children, but it turned out the move to the big city was worthwhile — and we’re not talking about her work as a…

Previously unseen portraits of ordinary people and everyday life on the island are going on show in Madagascar's capital decades after they were taken. They are the work of known as Emile Rakotondrazaka, who was regarded as the…

I'm James Barnor from Accra, Ghana and I've been photographing almost all the time since I can remember. Starting in 1946, 1947 when someone gave me a Baby Brownie. James Barnor started his photographic career 75 years ago. He was…

Zanele Muholi is a photographer and their work exceptionally stands out from the crowd. The non-binary photographer chronicles South Africa’s queer landscape, a community that is a target from unwarranted crime and violence, marked by…

Kenyan born photographer, Polly Irungu, was able to live the American dream when her work was featured on a Nasdaq billboard in New York's Times Square as part of an ‘Amplifying Black Voices’ campaign. “Having my photos in Times Square…

Temitope Akinnusi was just 10 years old, when he lost an eye trying to protect his mum from armed robbers.  “It all happened in 2003. Then, I was 10 years old. On that night we were upstairs in a rented apartment. We heard a loud noise…