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In collaboration with the Sharjah Art Foundation, The Africa Institute presented the first retrospective exhibition of the work of Ghanaian photographer Gerald Annan-Forson, titled “Revolution and Image-Making in Post-Colonial Ghana (1979-1985),” as part of our country-focused season on Global Ghana on March 10, 2022.
Featuring photographs primarily taken between 1979 and 1985, “Revolution and Image-making in Postcolonial Ghana” traced Ghana’s political and social life during a period of revolution and transformation captured through the photographer’s lens. The exhibition offered a visual story of postcolonial Ghana and its struggles and aspirations in the post-independence period. The photographer’s style of composition, lens focus, formal repetitions, character representation, and long-term commitment to documenting the changing landscape of Accra, Ghana, reshaped our understanding of photography as a tool of radical image-making.
Gerald Annan-Forson is a photographer whose work seeks to explode the simplistic façade of belonging, identity, and normalcy in Accra.
Ethnographer, artist, and filmmaker, Jesse Weaver Shipley, explores the links between aesthetics and power by examining both spectacular performance events and mundane social life. Shipley is a Professor of African and African American Studies and Oratory, Dartmouth College, USA.
In collaboration with the Sharjah Art Foundation, The Africa Institute presented the first retrospective exhibition of the work of Ghanaian photographer Gerald Annan-Forson, titled “Revolution and Image-Making in Post-Colonial Ghana (1979-1985),” as part of our country-focused season on Global Ghana on March 10, 2022.
In collaboration with the Sharjah Art Foundation, The Africa Institute presented the first retrospective exhibition of the work of Ghanaian photographer Gerald Annan-Forson, titled “Revolution and Image-Making in Post-Colonial Ghana (1979-1985),” as part of our country-focused season on Global Ghana on March 10, 2022.
Featuring photographs primarily taken between 1979 and 1985, “Revolution and Image-making in Postcolonial Ghana” traced Ghana’s political and social life during a period of revolution and transformation captured through the photographer’s lens. The exhibition offered a visual story of postcolonial Ghana and its struggles and aspirations in the post-independence period. The photographer’s style of composition, lens focus, formal repetitions, character representation, and long-term commitment to documenting the changing landscape of Accra, Ghana, reshaped our understanding of photography as a tool of radical image-making.
Gerald Annan-Forson is a photographer whose work seeks to explode the simplistic façade of belonging, identity, and normalcy in Accra.
Ethnographer, artist, and filmmaker, Jesse Weaver Shipley, explores the links between aesthetics and power by examining both spectacular performance events and mundane social life. Shipley is a Professor of African and African American Studies and Oratory, Dartmouth College, USA.
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