sending...One of our favourite pro-photographers and one of Ghana’s best, Nana Kofi Acquah (NKA), was kind enough to grant us an interview a few months ago (Click here for the full interview) in which he told us about his love for black and white photography, the sterling work he does with Voices of Africa and his thoughts on photo sharing sites.
We have been following NKA’s career and musings at his blog – Nanakofiacquah.blogspot.com where he tries to explain (or more accurately come to terms) with his inexplicable preference for photographing the female form and his sojourns in Europe holding exhibitions and carrying out his duties as a member of the Dutch Shadow Parliament, De Derde Kamer.
Perhaps the most compelling of NKA’s recent photographs is one that brings back personal memories of Northern Ghana, an area I spent countless holidays in and due to its relative deprivation and neglect reminds one of what urban Ghana and Africa must have felt and looked like perhaps 30 years ago. NKA entitles this photograph “The March of the Guinea Fowls”. The photograph depicts a land that has suffered from the slash and burn method of agriculture and yet still remains largely unsullied by the environmental decay and the excesses found in urban areas. A land that can still boast of providing seeds and insects for its most famous inhabitant – The Guinea Fowl! Why else will these proud birds be marching so purposefully and graciously?
March of the Guinea Fowls
Below are a few of Nana Kofi Acquah’s recent work.
