Скачать или смотреть ART X Talks 2022 - A Gaze, Ever Young. In Conversation with James Barnor

With a career spanning six decades, across multiple continents, Ghanaian photographer James Barnor is one of the most celebrated photographers working today. Amongst his iconic portraits are intimate photographs of young Ghanaians on the cusp of independence; models posing on the streets of 1960s London; and the first president of a newly independent Ghana, Kwame Nkrumah. And yet, prior to the staging of the first solo exhibition of Barnor’s work in 2007, the discourse on 20th century photography in Africa had focused primarily on Seydou Keita, Malick Sidibe, Samuel Fosso and Sanlé Sory. Since then, however, it has become impossible to speak of African photography without including this Ghanaian heavyweight.

Presented by MoMA, this conversation is moderated by Oluremi Onabanjo, a curator at MoMA, with contributions from Nigerian photographers Abraham Oghobase and Yagazie Emezi as interlocutors, this conversation offers an intimate insight into the life and career of one of Africa’s most prolific photographers.