Max Andoh's Photo Project Captures Ghana's Aboakyer Festival

Max Andoh's photographic project "Aboakyer" documents the annual Aboakyer festival in Winneba, Ghana, held on the first Saturday of May. The festival involves two Asafo companies, Tuafo and Dentsifo, who compete to catch a live antelope barehanded in the forest, a centuries-old ritual honoring the god Penkye Otu and commemorating the Effutu people's migration from western Sudan. Andoh's images depict the procession, painted bodies, and participants' faces, using vivid colors or their absence, direct light, and close-up framing to convey the collective energy without falling into exoticism. The project is described as a visual diary rather than pure reportage or anthropology. The article also lists other photography features: an interview with Aryz, Westwing x Crosby Studios, Francesco Faraci's Palermo, Wu-Tang Clan and Clarks Wallabee, and recent works by photographers Marika Grimaldi, Tom Pitts, Simone Falcomer, Eleonora D'Angelo, Tanmay Saxena, and Davide Padovan, plus a piece on 9/11 and Noris Cocci's Brandscape.