Aperture 252 Autumn 2023 Accra

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“Accra,” guest edited by the New York–based artist Lyle Ashton Harris and the Accra-based photographer and educator Nii Obodai, considers the Ghanaian capital as a site of dynamic photographic voices and histories that connect visual culture in West Africa to the world.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

FRONT
Agenda: Exhibitions to See
Alfredo Boulton, A Window Suddenly Opens, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Immersion

Viewfinder
Elizabeth A. Kessler on how the James Webb Space Telescope envisions the cosmos

Timeline
Kim Bell on the afterlife of a nineteenth-century assassin

Dispatches
Tin Htet Paing on the artists working under Myanmar’s oppressive military regime

Curriculum
Mimi Plumb on the Clash, Larry Sultan, and the Mission District in San Francisco

WORDS
Ghana Becomes You
Zohra Opoku’s evocative reflections on mortality and resilience
A Conversation with Ekow Eshun

Image Bank
The archives illuminating a nation’s past
Kobby Ankomah Graham

Ghana Obscura
For artists and writers, the return to a land where history was made
Anakwa Dwamena

The Correspondent
How Gerald Annan-Forson documented Ghana’s postindependence transformations
Jesse Weaver Shipley

Why We Went Out
The elusive spaces for queer expression
Chiké Frankie Edozien

A Library for the Future
How Paul Ninson built a center for photobooks
Ama Benewaa Tawiah

The Door of Memory
John Akomfrah on telling stories about migration and belonging
A Conversation with Vanessa Peterson and Lyle Ashton Harris

PICTURES
The Society
A portrait of Accra’s leadership by Lyle Ashton Harris
Senam Okudzeto

Postbox Ghana
Rediscovering architectural heritage through picture postcards
Kuukuwa O. Manful

Sunday Special
Carlos Idun-Tawiah’s retro-inspired views of youth and style
Nana Oforiatta Ayim

Early Risers
For Kay Kwabia, the poetry of everyday scenes
Lovia Gyarkye

Beauty Lives in Nima
Fibi Afloe highlights the graceful fashion in one Accra neighborhood
Amy Sall

Makola’s Market Queens
Misper Apawu’s portraits of traders and sellers
Nana Ama Agyemang Asante

Double Double
Lloyd Foster’s kinetic photo-sculptures
Nicole Acheampong

BACK
The PhotoBook Review
A conversation with the publisher Stanley/Barker, Salamishah Tillet on the history of Black studio photographers—and a selection of recent photobooks

Endnote
Six questions for Kwame Anthony Appiah