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List Of Photographers
This is a list of notable photographers. Africa Algeria * Zohra Bensemra (born 1968) * Sabrina Draoui (born 1977) * Hocine Zaourar (born 1952) Benin * Joseph Agbodjelou (1912–1999) * Leonce Raphael Agbodjelou (born 1965) * Mayeul Akpovi (born 1979) Cameroon * Joseph Chila (born 1948) * Angèle Etoundi Essamba (born 1962) * Samuel Fosso (born 1962) * Jacques Toussele (1939–2017) Democratic Republic of the Congo * Gosette Lubondo (born 1993) * Joseph Makula (1929–2006) Egypt * Lara Baladi (born 1969) * W. Hanselman * Rana El Nemr (born 1974) * Laura El-Tantawy (born 1980) * Sherif Sonbol (1956–2023) * Ayman Lotfy (born 1968) Eritrea * Senayt Samuel (born 1969) Ethiopia * Eyerusalem Jiregna (born 1993) * Aïda Muluneh (born 1974) * Michael Tsegaye (born 1975) Gambia * Khadija Saye (1992–2017) Ghana * Edmund Abaka * Felicia Abban (born 1935–2024) * Campbell Addy (born c. 1993) * Daniel Attoumou Amicchia (1908–1994) * Philip Kwame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Photographer
A photographer (the Greek φῶς (''phos''), meaning "light", and γραφή (''graphê''), meaning "drawing, writing", together meaning "drawing with light") is a person who uses a camera to make photographs. Duties and types of photographers As in other arts, the definitions of amateur and professional are not entirely categorical. An ''amateur photographer'' takes snapshots for pleasure to remember events, places or friends with no intention of selling the images to others. A ''professional photographer'' is likely to take photographs for a session and image purchase fee, by salary or through the display, resale or use of those photographs. A professional photographer may be an employee, for example of a newspaper, or may contract to cover a particular planned event such as a wedding or graduation, or to illustrate an advertisement. Others, like fine art photographers, are freelancers, first making an image and then licensing or making printed copies of it for s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherif Sonbol
Sherif Sonbol (6 December 1956 – 24 December 2023) was an Egyptian photographer specialising in architecture, scenic fine arts, and photojournalism. Early life Sherif Sonbol was born in Giza, Cairo, Egypt on 6 December 1956. Sonbol studied insurance at Cairo University and attended the Chartered Insurance Institute in London. He worked for the Egyptian Reinsurance Company as a marine underwriter. Around 1988 Sonbol decided to pursue one of his passions -photography- and tried his luck at Al-Ahram, where he soon started working as a freelancer.Al-Ahram Weekly October 2003 , interview following a five-week exhibition of his work at the in New York. Career |
James Barnor
James Barnor Hon. FRPS, OV (born 6 June 1929) is a Ghanaian photographer who has been based in London since the 1990s. His career spans six decades, and although for much of that period his work was not widely known, it has latterly been discovered by new audiences. In his street and studio photography, Barnor represents societies in transition in the 1950s and 1960s: Ghana moving toward independence, and London becoming a multicultural metropolis.Alexandra Genova"Party time! The photographer who captured the other swinging sixties" ''The Guardian'', 29 November 2019. He has said: "I was lucky to be alive when things were happening...when Ghana was going to be independent and Ghana became independent, and when I came to England the Beatles were around. Things were happening in the 60s, so I call myself Lucky Jim." He was Ghana's first full-time newspaper photographer in the 1950s, and he is credited with introducing colour processing to Ghana in the 1970s. It has been said: "J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gilbert Asante
Gilbert Asante (born 14 June 1987) is a Ghanaian creative director, photographer, and a multidisciplinary artist. He is best known for his viral images of Ghanaian celebrities including Joselyn Dumas, Boxing legend Azumah Nelson, Lydia Forson, and Big Brother Nigeria Housemate, Nengi. Early life Born on 14 June 1987, Gilbert Asante was raised in Koforidua, Ghana, and attended the St. Peter's Boys Senior High School in Nkwatia for his secondary education. He was later awarded a degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the Ghana Communications Technology University. Asante's passion for the arts begun at the age of 19 while on a trip to Japanese art centres. On his return to Ghana, he experimented with web and graphic design until he made his transition into fashion and commercial photography six years later. In an interview with Peace Hyde for ''Forbes'', Asante told the platform how he began his career stating that "photography wasn’t a big thing as it is now. So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Kwame Apagya
Philip Kwame Apagya (born 1958) is a Ghanaian photographer who specialises in colour studio portraits against painted backdrops. He lives and works in Shama, Ghana. Life and career Philip Kwame Apagya was born in Sekondi, Ghana, in 1958, and as the son of a photographer was apprenticed in his father's studio as a boy. Apagya studied photojournalism at the Accra School of Journalism, before opening his own studio in Shama, on Ghana's west coast, in 1982. He is known today for his studio portraits made using brightly coloured backdrops. Apagya's work is in The Contemporary African Art Collection (CAAC) of Jean Pigozzi. Apagya's works have been exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, the Sheldon Art Galleries in Nebraska, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, among other venues. His photographs are in many collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, and the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY. Apagya is represented by Fifty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Attoumou Amicchia
Daniel Attoumou Amicchia (1908–1994) was a Ghanaian photographer who settled in Grand-Bassam, Ivory Coast. Early life and career Amicchia was introduced to photography in 1920s. In 1948, he settled in Grand-Bassam, Ivory Coast, where he was active until 1970. In Grand-Bassam, he kept in contact with the English-speaking Ghanaian community in Côte d'Ivoire, whom he photographed extensively. He acted like a "travelling merchant" and produced photographs of families and businesses. Little is known about Amicchia's life and career, as he was largely undocumented and his family threw away his archives after his death. Amicchia's partner, Joseph Ernest Kouao, however, kept and preserved the remnants of the photographer's archive. ''Revue Noire Revue Noire is a specialist publisher of books and web material relating to African contemporary art and culture, based in France. From 1991 to 2001, Editions Revue Noire published the printed quarterly magazine ''Revue Noire (magazine), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Campbell Addy
Campbell Addy (born March 19, 1993) is a British-Ghanaian photographer, filmmaker and artist.He is known working with high numbers of fashion clients Calvin Klein and more. In 2021, he joined Forbes 30 Under 30 list. Early life Addy was born and raised in South London. His parents separated during his childhood and he was brought up by his Jehovah's Witness mother in a low-income community. When he was 17, Addy's brother outed Campbell's sexual orientation to their mother after he had uncovered a photography of Campbell and a boyfriend in his bedroom. Fearing being sent to live with his Muslim father in Ghana, Addy fled home. He was taken in by the Albert Kennedy Trust and subsequently put into foster care with Richard Field, a gay artist living in South London. Addy has since reconciled with his family. In 2010 Addy was tasked with reorganising the school library, where he discovered the books of Nick Knight, Norman Parkinson and Irving Penn and realised that the possibili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Felicia Abban
Felicia Ewuraesi Abban (; 1936/1937 – 4 January 2024) was Ghana's first female professional photographer. She worked as a photographer for the country's first president, Kwame Nkrumah, for a number of years during the 1960s. Early life Felicia Abban was born in the Western Region of Ghana and grew up in a seaside town named Sekondi-Takoradi. She was the eldest of six children and quickly followed her father's, J.E. Ansah, footsteps in photography and became his apprentice at the age of 14. Abban studied under him for the next four years working on her craft and at the age of 18, she relocated from Takoradi to Accra, where she set up her own studio. In a few months she opened up her business, "Mrs. Felicia Abban's Day and Night Quality Art Studio" in the centre of Jamestown, Accra in 1955. Felicia's husband, Richard Abban, designed the fabric with Kwame Nkrumah's portrait on flowers with a map of Ghana for the country's independence celebrations in 1957. Abban's studio was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Abaka
Edmund Abaka is a Ghanaian-born American photographer and historian of Africa at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida. Abaka is a graduate of the University of Cape Coast in Ghana and received his master's from the University of Guelph in Canada. He received his PhD from York University in 1998. Abaka is a Fulbright scholar. Selected publications * ''"Kola is God's Gift": Agricultural Production, Export Initiatives and the Kola Industry of Asante and the Gold Coast, c. 1820–1950''. Ohio University Press, Athens, 2005. (Western African Studies) * ''Culture And Customs of Ethiopia''. 2007 * ''House of Slaves and "Door of No Return": Gold Coast/Ghana Slave Forts, Castles & Dungeons and the Atlantic Slave Trade''. University of Wisconsin Press * ''W. E. B. Du Bois on Africa'' (edited with Eugene F. Provenzo) References External links"Edmund Abakaat ResearchGate ResearchGate is a European commercial social networking site for scientists and researchers to share ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khadija Saye
Khadija Mohammadou Saye (30 July 1992 – 14 June 2017), also known as Ya-Haddy Sisi Saye, was a Gambian-British photographer. Her photography explored her Gambian-British identity and was exhibited in the Diaspora Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2017. Saye died in the Grenfell Tower fire. Life and work Saye was born in London and initially attended the Sion Manning Roman Catholic Girls' School in North Kensington. At age 16 she won a scholarship to Rugby School in Rugby, England. Later she attended the University for the Creative Arts at Farnham and obtained a photography degree. She lived with her mother, Mary Ajaoi Augustus Mendy, on the 20th floor of Grenfell Tower in North Kensington. She was mentored by artist Nicola Green and became friends with Green's husband, Tottenham (UK Parliament constituency), Tottenham MP David Lammy. Saye's photography explored her Gambian-British identity. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Tsegaye
Michael Tsegaye (born 1975 in Addis Ababa) is an Ethiopian artist and photographer. Much of his work presents a glimpse of life in contemporary Ethiopia, although an extended catalogue of his images come from his travels abroad. Biography Michael Tsegaye grew up in Addis Ababa where he attended Cathedral Elementary and Tikur Anbessa High School. He enrolled in the Economics Department of Addis Abeba University before transferring to its School of Fine Arts and Design. There, he received his diploma in painting in 2002, but soon gave up painting after he developed a severe allergy to oil paint. He subsequently found his passion in photography. Michael Tsegaye has regularly worked for international publications such as ''Der Spiegel'', ''Jeune Afrique'', and ''enorm''; as well as the press agencies Bloomberg and Reuters. He has also worked for a number of international NGOs in a variety of countries and capacities since 2006, including Médecins Sans Frontières, UNESCO and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aïda Muluneh
Aïda Muluneh (born 1974, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) Ethiopian photographer, educator, and entrepreneur known for her Afrofuturist photography that incorporates vibrant colours and body painting to create surreal scenes. Muluneh won the European Union Prize at African Photography Encounters and the CRAF International Award of Photography. In 2020, she was given the Award for Photographic Curatorship of the Royal Photographic Society. In 2019, Aïda became the first black woman to co-curate the Nobel Peace Prize Exhibition, and in 2020, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the World Food Program. To mark this momentous occasion, Muluneh created a collection that embodied her profound artistic vision. Specifically, focusing on displaying how hunger has been used as a weapon of war throughout history. Biography Muluneh was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 1974. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
