New exhibition at Nuku Studio in Tamale: Northern Ghana Life - A Retrospective / by JULIANE REISSIG

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”.

On April 8th 2023 at 3 pm Nuku Studio opens a Retrospective on “Northern Ghana Life”. The exhibition showcases a selection of photographs of the “Northern Ghana Life” project which brought together a group of national and international photographers to document stories from Northern Ghana which were first displayed during the 2018 Nuku Photo Festival.

Works of the following photographers will be exhibitied: Dennis Akuoku-Frimpong, Abdulai Adam, Gerard Nartey, Peter DiCampo, Eric Gyamfi, Francis Kokoroko, Bénédicte Kurzen, Nii Obodai and Patrick Willocq.

About “Northern Ghana Life”

Since 2016, Nuku Studio and Noorderlicht (House of Photography in The Netherlands) have been collaborating on the project “Northern Ghana Life”. 11 Ghanaian and international photographers have made a visual documentation of the society and landscape of Northern Ghana, as part of a research project.

The project resulted in the launch of a book and an exhibition in September 2018 as part of Nuku Photo Festival Ghana, the country’s first festival for photographic encounters, exchanges, and story-telling.

“Northern Ghana has rarely been the subject of collaborative photographic research, and in a historical and a photographic sense we may even go as far as to call it a terra incognita. The stories by the photographers invite us to explore the diverse and dynamic region that is Northern Ghana. They provide a visual interpretation of a largely undocumented landscape, and document its current state-of-affairs for future generations,” says Nii Obodai, Founder of Nuku Studio and Director of Nuku Photo Festival.

Exhibition details

Tamale, Ghana

08 April - 08 June 2023

Photographers

Abdulai Adam (Ghana), Dennis Akuoku-Frimpong (Ghana), Geoffrey Buta (Ghana), Peter DiCampo (USA), Eric Gyamfi (Ghana), Francis Kokoroko (Ghana), Benedicte Kurzen (France), Gerard Nartey (Ghana), Seton Nicholas (Ghana), Nii Obodai (Ghana), and Patrick Willocq (France)

In collaboration with University of Ghana in Legon, University of Development Studies (Wa, Tamale), Leiden University and University of Groningen (The Netherlands)