James Barnor, witness to a Changing Ghana
A woman poses for the camera, seated on a giant box of Agfa photo film in Accra, Ghana. The date is October 22, 1970, and Ghanaian photographer James Barnor has…
Photographer Lebohang Kganye (1990, South Africa) is the guest of Nathalie Herschdorfer, Director of Photo Elysée, and Stefano Stoll, Director of Images Vevey as part of a special series of CONVERSATIONS. Lebohang Kganye is the winner of the Grand Prix Images Vevey 2021/2022.
Recorded at the Hotel des Trois Couronnes during the Biennale Images Vevey 2022.
A proposal by Nathalie Herschdorfer and Stefano Stoll, co-produced by Photo Elysée and Images Vevey.
© 2022 Photo Elysée and Images Vevey
Vidéo by Elise Gyger
A woman poses for the camera, seated on a giant box of Agfa photo film in Accra, Ghana. The date is October 22, 1970, and Ghanaian photographer James Barnor has…
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