Accra Photo Week

We are heartbroken to learn of the passing of a photography stalwart, Steve Ababio. .ababio was a hero and mentor to many photographers and filmmakers.

Uncle Steve was an active supporter of the Accra Photo Week initiative and was ever willing to lend his experience where needed. We will fondly miss his creativity and enthusiasm for photography.

His legacy and contribution to Ghana's visual culture will forever be celebrated.

Rest in peace, Uncle Steve.

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14/10/2024, Accra: Ghanaian artists team up with street hawkers to 'sell' "pure galamsey water" in traffic, thus painting a picture of Ghana’s fast approaching future.

An aerial view of Ghana today shows many rivers have turned brown due to small scale mining activities in rivers, forests and everywhere they can find gold. Vast cocoa farms and other farmlands have been destroyed or compromised by small scale miners.

To extract the gold, the miners use cyanide and mercury which are both devastating to the environment.

Ghana has started recording high numbers kidney and lung diseases, nerve-related diseases like Parkinson’s and children being born deformed, evoking images of Chernobyl and Hiroshima.

The lack of political will on the part of the two main political parties in Ghana, a culture of corruption, a weak chieftaincy system, an overwhelmed judiciary and willfully ineffective security mixed with Chinese shenanigans has brewed the perfect apocalypse for the nation closest to the centre of the earth.

Photos and Words by Nana Kofi Acquah www.nkacquah.com / africashowboy.com (Copyright: 2024).

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The world is round and every thing we throw up must come done. So be careful if you are not giving your maximum help to your neighbor you might not know when you will loose your balance. Just know life rotates."
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"OVERFLOW -

A fisherman, while carrying a container filled with his catch, gets hit by a wave as he makes his way to shore."
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A very Merry Christmas to you all🎄 🎄 🎄 . We wish you a joyful holidays.

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An unexpected turn but we look to the positives. New dates will be communicated soon. See you in 2023.
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'Wo Nim Biribi?' highlights works of Travel and Documentary photographer of blessed memory as curated by .
It is open at the till 19th November.

"Fort Santo Antonio was built by the Portuguese in 1515, near the town of Axim, in what is now Ghana. In 1642, the Dutch captured the fort and subsequently made it part of the Dutch Gold Coast. The Dutch expanded the fort considerably before they turned it over, with the rest of their colony, to the British in 1872. The fort is now the property of the Ghanaian state and is open to the public."
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Join us this Saturday - at 5 pm for the opening night of the first solo exhibition of Emmanuel Bobbie’s “Bop pixel” at Dikan Gallery.

Dikan Gallery
L3 Kaadjano
South La

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We are so excited to announce our Exhibition Open Call! 📢

Are you an artist looking for a space to display your works? We are accepting works of all mediums! Please send your applications to [[email protected]] if you are interested!

Application Requirements:
-Exhibition Proposal
-Portfolio of 10-15 works
-Artist Bio

⚠️ 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲: 𝗢𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝟮𝟴𝘁𝗵, 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟮

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Aseye Tamakloe is a filmmaker and lecturer at the National film and Television Institute in Accra. She is a co-programmer for the Film Africa Festival, London’s biggest celebration of African and African diaspora cinema presented by the Royal African Society. She was the Festival Manager/Director of the European Film Festival, Ghana (EUFFGH).

Aseye Tamakloe is the founder and festival director of NDIVA WOMEN’S FILM FESTIVAL. A festival that aims to create artistic platforms for the presentation and preservation of work by, for and about women. As a freelance editor her works include, award-winning films and television productions such as Perfect Picture and Different Shades of Blue by Shirley Frimpong-Manso, Who is Afraid of Ngugi by Manthia Diawara, Freetown by Garret Barty and Chronicles of Odumkrom: The Headmaster by Ernest Kofi Abbeyquaye. She recently directed and edited the critically acclaimed documentary film When Women Speak.

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Kwaw Paintsil Ansah is a film director, screenwriter, producer and playwright regarded in many circles as Ghana’s most influential filmmaker.

He has been a storyteller throughout his adult life by way of his work in advertising, plays, films and design. Very few people know that he designed some of Ghana’s popular wax print cloths such as Abban Nkaba and You Too Can Fly.

As an acclaimed filmmaker, Ansah’s other works include Heritage Africa; Crossroads Of People, Crossroads of Trade; The Good Old Days; Suffering To Lose; The Love Of AA and Papa Lasisi Bicycle. Though a staunch Pan-Africanist, Ansah believes that Africans telling stories to the world must not develop emotional attachments to what they consider as their relevant values and just proclaim them without regard to requisite artistic merits.

He sees relevant training as important for success and that’s why despite the early surge of artistic talent in his life, he strived to study theatre design, music and filmmaking at institutions such as the London Polytechnic in the United Kingdom and the America Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York.