A Visit To Nubuke Foundation
On Wednesday, the 27th of November my colleagues and I visited the Nabuke art gallery with our lecturer. They were exhibiting art works of James Barnor a pioneered photographer. JAMES BARNOR A RETROSPECTIVE 23rd November 2019- 10th May 2020 James Barnor (b.1929) is now widely recognized as one of Ghana’s most pioneering photographers. Taught by his cousin’s J.P.D. Dodoo and Julius Aikins, and gifted with equipment from his uncle Mr William Ankrah, his career began modestly. Determined and dedicated, Barnor became the first photojournalist at the inception of the Daily Graphic newspaper in 1950. Three years later he opened Ever Young, his first photographic studio in Jamestown. Taking innovation in his stride, Barnor moved to London in 1959 to develop his practice. He returned to Ghana a decade later to establish the first color photo-processing laboratory for Sick-Havgemeyer and a place of his own, Studio X23 , in Accra. Every image serves as an arte