GHANA
KEVIN OKAI
@unsung1992
I am Kevin Okai, a photographer and filmmaker based in Accra, Ghana who has a passion for portraying people and stories in captivating visuals. I specialize in portraiture and also focus on documenting the culture and people in the vicinities I find myself. As an avid listener, I believe we all have our stories to tell and what better way to tell it than to document it with enticing images and visuals?
Black Star Square, Accra
MISPER APAWU
@misperlens
Misper Apawu is a freelance photographer based in Accra, Ghana. She graduated from the University of Cape Coast with a BSc in Marketing but later followed her zeal to tell stories with images. It all started when she was a young girl living in the Volta northern part of Ghana. She was a hawker, selling sachet water in a local market. But then, something else always caught her eye: photographers. Tourists, with their cameras, take pictures of the traders around the market. When the photographers would show the people the images they had taken, the
smiles on their faces made her realize that this was something she wanted to do too (Put a smile on people's faces). But it seemed the dream was out of reach until she got the opportunity to receive free photography training and mentoring sponsored by Lensational.
Fast forward, and now she is an emerging photographer who is a member of African women in photography and World Press's African photojournalism database. She also received a year mentorship and a grant from Women photograph and Doug Pensinger
photographer fund respectively. Through her work, she wanted to shine a light on social issues and focus on telling
impactful stories about women, sports, and the environment. Misper's connection with sports particularly deepened when she began to explore her past as a sportswoman. It was her way of bringing her past and present together.
DERYK OWUSU BEMPAH
@deryk_bempah
Deryk Owusu Bempah is a Ghanaian-born art photographer living and working in
Ghana. He completed Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology with
First Class Honors in BFA Painting from the Department of Painting and Sculpture,
BlaxTARLINES KUMASI, project space for contemporary art.
He was selected as part of the top ten finalists to represent Ghana in the
Barclays L’Atelier competition in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 2015.
He was selected as part of the top ten finalists for the 2016 Kuenyehia Prize for
Contemporary Ghanaian Art and was awarded the 1 st runner up prize.
He has taken part in many exhibitions and workshops including the Johannesburg Art
fair, in South Africa. “Orderly Disorderly” Museum of Science and Technology,
Accra. “Cornfields in Accra” exhibition, Museum of Science and Technology, Accra.
“If you love me…” exhibition held in Kumasi, Ghana. 89plus portfolio review at the
Nubuke foundation. A documentary photography workshop with Gael Turin. 2018
Creative Accelerator Program of the Kuenyehia prize for contemporary Ghanaian art.
“The Gown must go to town” exhibition, Museum of Science and Technology, Accra,
and “Memory and Amnesia: In the Presence of Absent Futures” in the KNUST
Library, where he donated an edition of his work titled Republic Hall to the Library,
to mention a few.
CALEB MENSAH
@thecaleb.mensah_
Born (2000) in the capital city of Ghana, Accra, Caleb Mensah spends his time between the two biggest cities in Ghana, Accra and Kumasi. His passion for creative arts urged him to pursue a program in visual art when he was at school. Now pursuing a BFA Ceramics and Design degree at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology. Growing up in an age when there was an upsurge in technology and fashion, he picked up his influences from basic trivial things in society, finding rare and memorable moments. He is currently a photographer specializing in documentary photography, working with the joy and struggles of humanity.
ABDUL-HAQQ MAHAMA
@u_thought_i
My Name is Abdul-Haqq Mahama I am a Ghanaian freelance Photojournalist and visual storyteller who lives and works in Tamale, Northern Ghana. I have a passion for photography and how it influences
people’s behaviors and emotions. My primary goal as a visual storyteller is to inspire those who see my work to look more carefully at the world around them, to discover beauty in ordinary and everyday places and to use my work as a conduit for social change.
