Photographer Philip Kwame Apagya reckons with these beliefs in his studio photography, using vibrantly hand-painted backdrops to critique and caricature “Western life.”
Capturing the disjuncture between aspiration and reality, his set-ups – long before digital photography and the advent of selfies – offered an escapist fantasy where people became the stars of their own dreams.”
https://www.phaidon.com/agenda/art/articles/2021/july/13/african-artists-and-the-photo-studio/
















