James Barnor

**James Barnor** Hon. FRPS, OV  bɛ dɔɣi o la silimiingoli  June dabaayɔbu dali yuuni 1929 ni ka o nyɛ foto ŋmari n be Ghana amaa ka lee nyɛ ŋun ʒini London tingban ni binshɛɣu din gbaai yuma 1990s polo. O tuma baŋsim kuli nyɛla din niŋ yuma ayɔbu, hali zaayɔli lala saha ŋɔ o tuma daa nyɛla niribi ni bɛ mi shɛli yɛla, di daa nyɛla din yina polo saha biɛla sunsuuni. O tuma yaɣa din nyɛ ( street  mini studio photography) puuni,  Barnor daa nyɛla ŋun leegi ŋun zaniti tinsi pam suhu doo bɔbu polo yuuni 1950s zaŋ ni yuma 1960s polo: lala saha ŋɔ Ghana ni daa mɔri di maŋsulinsi deebu ka London mi leeri tiŋgbani din yan mali zuliya bɔbigu. O daa yɛliya : " n daa niŋ saha pam ka n na be n nyɛvuli ni ka binyara niŋda...Ghana ni daa mɔri ni di deegi di maŋ sulinsi ka daa shiri deegi di maŋ sulinsi, ka ni daa chaŋ  England,  ban nyɛ Beatles la daa nyɛli ban beni. Bin yɛra daa niŋdi pam yuma 1960s polo ka di zuɣu che ka n boli n yuli  Lucky Jim." O daa nyɛla Ghana tuuli lahibaya tibu anfooni nim foto ŋmahara yuma 1950s polo, ka o daa lan nyɛ ŋun kpaŋ o maŋ pam ka bɛ ni boli shɛli ni  colour processing la kana  Ghana tingban ni yuma1970s pol. Lahibali wuhiya ni: "James Barnor nyɛla ŋun be  Ghana foto mini lahibaya wuligibu polo ka  Ousmane Sembène mi nyɛ ŋun be  Senegal mini  African cinema puuni.".

### Solo exhibitions
* 2007: *Mr Barnor's Independence Diaries*, Black Cultural Archives, London, UK
* 2010: *James Barnor: Ever Young*, Rivington Place, London, UK
* 2010: *James Barnor: Ever Young, Street and Studio Photography, Ghana/UK*, Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University, Boston, US (28 January–26 May)
* 2011: *James Barnor: Ever Young*, South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
* 2013: *James Barnor: Ever Young*, Impressions Gallery, Bradford, UK (5 July–31 August)
* 2015: *Ever Young*, Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière, Paris, France
* 2016: *Ever Young — James Barnor*, Black Artists' Network in Dialogue (BAND) in partnership with Autograph, BAND Gallery, Toronto, Canada (28 April–29 May)
* 2016: *James Barnor: Ever Young*, Rebuild Foundation, Stony Island Arts Bank, Chicago, US (23 June–3 September)
* 2017–2018: *La vie selon James Barnor*, 11e biennale des Rencontres de Bamako, Bamako, Mali
* 2017–2018: *Ever Young*, Musée du Quai Branly, vitrine jardin, Paris
* 2018: *La vie selon James Barnor*, Mupho Musée de la Photographie de Saint-Louis, Saint Louis, Sénégal
* 2018: *La vie selon James Barnor*, Gallery 1957, Kempinski Hotel, Accra, Ghana
* 2019: *Colors*, Galerie Clémentine de la Férronnière, Paris
* 2019: *La vie selon James Barnor*, Gerard Sekoto Gallery, Johannesburg
* 2019–2020: *James Barnor: A Retrospective*, Nubuke Foundation, Accra, Ghana
* 2021: *James Barnor: Accra/London – A Retrospective*, Serpentine Galleries.
* 2022: *James Barnor: Stories. Pictures from the Archive (1947–1987)*, LUMA Arles
* 2023: *James Barnor: Accra/London – A Retrospective*, Detroit Institute of Arts

### Group exhibitions
* 2004: Acton Arts Festival
* 2012: *Another London: International Photographers Capture London Life 1930–1980*, at Tate Britain, London, UK (27 July–18 September)
* 2015: *Swinging Sixties London - Photography in the Capital of Cool*, Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (11 June–2 September)
* 2015: *Staying Power: Photographs of Black British Experience 1950s-1990s*, BCA (15 January–30 June) and V & A (16 February–24 May), London, UK
* 2015: *Work, Rest and Play: British Photography from the 1960s to Today*, Photographers' Gallery, London, UK (9 May–12 July)
* 2016: *Daniele Tamagni and James Barnor*, October Gallery, London, UK (8–30 September)
* 2017–2018: *It’s great to be young, photographies de James Barnor et Marc Riboud*, Galerie Clémentine de la Féronnière, Paris

## Published works

## Further reading
* Léllé Demertzi, "The Ever Young Photographer James Barnor", *post: notes on art in a global context*, The Museum of Modern Art, 3 June 2020.

## References

## External links

* James Barnor Foundation (JBF) official website.
* Electric Avenue: a special photo essay curated by the NS, "Introduction: Electric avenues" by Sukhdev Sandhu, *New Statesman*, 1 August 2012.
* James Barnor portfolio  at Autograph ABP website.

* Zaneta Denny, "James Barnor: legendary Ghanaian photographer" , Community Channel, 27 May 2012.
* "James Barnor at Galerie Baudoin Lebon (Paris Photo 2011)".
* James Barnor's Artist Talk , recorded at Impressions Gallery on Saturday, 10 August 2013.
* "Ever Young: James Barnor" on Vimeo.
* "The Photography of James Barnor", Voices of East Anglia.
* "For EVER YOUNG: The Iconic Photography of James Barnor", ACCRA [dot] ALT Radio, 29 June 2012.
* Ade Sawyerr, "Preserving the past to inspire the future:everyoungjba.org". The Ade Sawyerr Blog.

* "James Barnor" at Victoria and Albert Museum.
* Video interview with James Barnor , 3 July 2015 (in connection with "Swinging Sixties London" exhibition at Foam, Netherlands).
* "James Barnor: 'Comme photographe noir, vous ne pouviez pas faire de la photo de mode'" (interview in French), *[[Le Monde]]*, 14 October 2015.
* "Celebrating James Barnor – the first photographer to shoot Ghana in colour", *The Guardian*, 22 September 2016.
* Riason Naidoo, "Photographer James Barnor – Ever Young at 90", *Mail & Guardian*, 21 June 2019.
* Riason Naidoo, "James Barnor: 'I’m finally getting recognition'", 28 June 2019.
* Eve Jackson, "Meet 90-year-old photographic legend James Barnor", *Encore!*, 21 November 2019.
* Renée Mussai, "(FOR)EVER YOUNG: HAPPY 91ST BIRTHDAY JAMES BARNOR!", Autograph, 5 June 2020.