James Barnor

James Barnor (1929 –) founded his first photo studio in Accra (Ghana) in 1949. Also active as a photojournalist, he photographed the movement that led his country to independence in 1957. From 1959 to 1969 he lived in London, where he documented the diasporic experience of the Swinging Sixties. After training in color photography processes, he returned to Ghana in 1970 to disseminate the techniques. A major retrospective of his works was held at the Serpentine Gallery (London) in 2021.