News
We’ve started off the new year with a new collaboration: Nuku Studio in Ghana and Hangar in Portugal are joining forces to foster an artist exchange between the two countries - through an artist-in-residency programme. The first artist-in-residence from Ghana - Ofoe Amegavie - just concluded his one month residency at Hangar with a presentation of his ongoing project “Between Sand and Water”.
Saturday 4 November 2023, Nuku Studio’s Center for Photographic Research and Practice in Tamale, Ghana was transformed for the opening of Routes of Rebellion, a major solo exhibition of films and audio-visual media by Jesse Weaver Shipley, curated by Robin Riskin and Patrick NiiOkanta Ankrah.
On 10 November 2023 at its Center for Photographic Research and Practice in Tamale, Nuku Studio opened the pop-up exhibition titled “[re]fractions”. It brings together a collection of photographic work by Fibi Afloe, Abdul-Haqq Mahama, Misper Apawu, Ofoe Amegavie, Francis Kokroko, Eric Gyamfi and Nii Obodai.
Nuku Studio’s Art Residency at its Center for Photographic Research and Practice in Tamale offers a home away from home, a quiet place to explore and experiment in a new environment. The 1-3 month residency program allows artists to work on a project of their choice, independently or through artistic exchanges with other local and international artists.
Nuku Studio is launching its Volunteer Programme at its Center for Photographic Research and Practice in Tamale, Northern Ghana.
Nuku Studio, in collaboration with Red Clay Studios, presents “Routes of Rebellion”, an exhibition of film and aural-visual media by Jesse Weaver Shipley. Eleven films explore the journeys that artists, musicians, athletes, and soldiers take in reinventing their worlds and charting routes of rebellion.
Nuku Studio is delighted to announce the screening of “Certain Winds from the South” directed by Eric Gyamfi and written with Moshood Hamza Balogun at its Center for Photographic Research and Practice in Tamale.
By basing themselves outside of Accra, Nuku Studio provides space and time for Ghanaian and international photographers to develop their craft. Read the full article by Vanessa Peterson for frieze.
Nuku Studio is looking for emerging photographers to join the Nuku Team in Tamale. You will be working in a small team for 3, 6 or 12 months, and you will be able to pursue and strengthen your personal interests.
Nuku Studio is delighted to announce its next photo exhibit at its Center for Photographic Research and Practice in Tamale: A Retrospective on “NORTHERN GHANA LIFE”.
Nuku Studio invites the public to visit the "Tracing Emerging Ecologies" exhibition with works by Baerbel Mueller, Eric Gyamfi, Juergen Strohmayer, and Nii Obodai.
Since 2018, Nuku Studio has been part of the “Gold Matters” Project. An international team of researchers and artists examined how social transformations towards sustainable mining futures are possible. The concluding photography exhibition in Tamale, Ghana features Nii Obodai’s photo project “Big Dreams, Life Built on Gold” (18 July-31 October 2022).
In 2020, three talents were selected for the West Africa Visual Journalism Fellowship, the World Press Photo Foundation’s new educational program in partnership with the Chocolonely Foundation: Ofoe Amegavie, Ghana; Adrien Bitibaly, Burkina Faso; and Aka Aboubakhr Thierry Kouame, Côte d'Ivoire.
The Noorderlicht International Photo Festival is putting out an Open Student Call for the second time. The theme of the 28th edition of the festival in the summer of 2021 is ‘The Makeable Mind’, which explores the relationship between visual culture and reality. What is the influence of visual technologies, communication media and (citizen) journalism on our thinking? Deadline for submissions: 17 May 2021.
It is with sadness that we received the news that our friend and sponsor, Henri Wientjes, passed away on 6 January 2021. Henri was a very passionate supporter of Nuku Studio’s educational and photography community.
Nuku Studio’s Conference of Photographers (originally scheduled for 27-30 November 2019) is being postponed and will take place in 2020 in Accra, Ghana. The new date will be announced shortly.
Nuku’s Nii Obodai has been working in residence in the East Riding of Yorkshire in the UK with art and environment organisation Invisible Dust. The residency culminates in a new exhibition at Beverley Art Gallery, titled ‘Of Natural Magic’, which explores the waterways of the region and the people that they conjoin and influence.
In this Nuku newsletter we share with you updates from Nuku's latest activities in Northern Ghana, as well as a series of other photography projects and events across the country! We are also excited to see Nubuke Foundation opening its new art space in Accra!
Addis Foto Fest invites photographers, curators, and photography collectives to submit projects that could be exhibited during the next edition of the Addis Foto Fest, which will take place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 3-7 December 2020. Submit your work by 31 July 2019.
The first edition of Kigali Photo Fest curated by Kampala-based independent curator Robinah Nansubuga under the theme “In Search of Relevance: Locality and Remediation” takes place from 7 to 16 June 2019 in Kigali, Rwanda.