Interview with James Barnor

"I happened to be involved in the independence of Ghana (…) Through this, I saw the world afresh."

Speaker(s): James Barnor
Duration: 4 min
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For his first retrospective in France, James Barnor has assembled, with LUMA, a completely original portfolio of his favourite images. These were selected by re-examining his vast archive of 30,000 negatives and several hundred prints and period documents. Barnor's images bring to life the utopia of a shared world, one that transcends the nationalisms of the second half of the 20^th century.
In this interview, James Barnor looks back on his career which is now inspiring a new generation of artists who are fighting to represent blackness around the world.

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