James Barnor's 'The Roadmaker' at Galerie Clémentine de la Ferronière

The exhibition 'James Barnor: The Roadmaker' at Galerie Clémentine de la Ferronière in Paris runs until February 19, 2022. It presents a selection of prints by the Ghanaian photographer James Barnor, who worked in Accra and London, spanning studio portraits, reportage, and advertising. The show follows his retrospective at Serpentine Gallery and precedes a larger retrospective at MASI Lugano (March 13 to July 31, 2022). Barnor opened his 'Ever Young' studio in Accra's Jamestown district in 1953 at age 25. Over five decades, he diversified his practice, documenting Ghana's independence era, working for the Daily Graphic and Drum magazine, and later moving to London (1959–1969), where he studied color printing and captured the Ghanaian diaspora amid swinging London. Returning to Accra in the 1970s, he opened Ghana's first color lab and studio 'X23', producing album covers and advertisements.