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James Barnor
James Barnor (born 6 June 1929) is a pioneering Ghanaian photographer who has been based in London, UK, 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: Ghana moving toward Independence, and London becoming a multicultural metropolis. He has said: "...I was lucky to be alive when things were happening...when Ghana was going to be independent and Ghana becacme 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 '70s.〔Aarti wa Njoroge, "In Conversation with James Barnor], in Comparison with Malick Sidibé". Originally in AfricanColours, 8 May 2012. (Reprinted ) in Digital Photo Times.〕〔(James Barnor biography ) at Victoria and Albert Museum.〕
Appreciation of octogenarian Barnor's work as a studio portraitist, photojournalist and Black lifestyle photographer〔Kate Salter, ("Colour me beautiful: James Barnor's photographs for Drum magazine" ), Fashion, ''Telegraph'', 7 December 2010.〕 has been heightened since 2010 when the first major solo retrospective exhibition of his photographs, ''Ever Young: James Barnor'', was mounted at Rivington Place, London, followed by a series of exhibitions in the USA, France and South Africa. His photographs have been collated by the non-profit agency Autograph ABP during a four-year project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and in 2011 became part of the new Archive and Research Centre for Culturally Diverse Photography.〔("Work of Medway-trained photographer in new archive" ), BBC Kent, 7 December 2010.〕 It has been said: "James Barnor is to Ghana and photojournalism what Ousmane Sembène was to Senegal and African cinema."〔Tiffani Jones, ("Secret History of the Black Pinup: Drum Magazine and James Barnor" ), Coffee Rhetoric, 23 August 2012.〕
==Early years==
James Barnor was born in Accra, in what was then the Gold Coast, West Africa. Explaining how he came to choose his career, he has said: "Photography was in my family. My two uncles were photographers. My cousin was a photographer, and I found out later when I got into it that another cousin was also a photographer."〔Kwaku, ("Lucky Jim, still working at 81" ), ''New African'', April 2011, pp. 80–82.〕
At the age of 17 Barnor was teaching basket weaving at a missionary school and the headmaster gave him a camera "to play around with––it was a Kodak Brownie 127, made of plastic".〔("Picture This – Photographer James Barnor Looks Back at 60 Years Behind the Camera" ), ''Nowness'', 25 September 2010.〕 In 1947, Barnor started an apprenticeship with his cousin J. P. Dodoo, a well-known portrait photographer,〔Angela Cobbinah, ("Following Nkrumah" ), NewsAfrica, 6 January 2011.〕 "mostly taking pictures of people because when you take pictures of flowers and places there's nobody to pay for them. I did that for two years but I had always wanted to be a policeman. I applied to be a police photographer and was accepted, but before I could start my training my uncle gave me the camera he used for photography."〔
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