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Ghana through the lens: [04/21/2009 -- 05/05/2009]
 A Journey by Willis Bell
“Willis Bell made numerous trips throughout Ghana, but none perhaps was as remarkable as his first trip to Northern Ghana. He returned a witness and advocate of the stark beauty of the countryside and the self assured aesthetics pervading even the most ordinary aspects of daily life.” Exhibition catalogue (2009:4)
Ghana through the Lens: A Photo Journey by Willis Bell was a must see exhibition. 50 black and white photographs of a beautiful people and a wonderful Ghanaian landscape of the fifties were on display. The pictures reach into our not too distant past and unearth a hope and pride that we must, as a people, develop in ourselves and our beloved nation. With each frame, the feeling is as though the people are alive and just waiting to share their lives with you. As one moved from one picture to the other, one is pleasantly mystified. Private rural lives open up in innocent pride to the public, not to the prying eye of a voyeur but to a sensitive observer. An anticipation of a brighter tomorrow hidden behind the dark shadows emerges and one can breathe free towards the future.
Ghana through the Lens: A Photo Journey by Willis Bell was jointly put up by The Mmofra Foundation, the Willis Bell Photo Archives and Goethe-Institut, Accra and proudly hosted by Nubuke Foundation. The show was accompanied by 68 page catalogue (GhC 15) with photographs by Willis Bell and essays Esi Sutherland Addy and Alf Bremer.
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