education
2024 master of fine arts, kwame nkrumah university of science and technology
2014 bachelor of arts (information studies with economics), university of ghana
workshops
2018 the photographers’ masterclass johannesburg
2017 world press photo foundation masterclass, accra
2017 the photographers’ masterclass nairobi, Kenya
2016 the photographers’ masterclass khartoum, Sudan
2016 nuku studio photography workshops, accra
residencies
2026 hodder fellowship, princeton university
2025 part residency, vienna
2023 defunct context residency, cape town
2022 defunct context residency, cape town
grants
2016 — magnum foundation fund
awards
2019 — foam paul huf award
professional experience
2020 — research intern, center for plant medicine research, mampong-akuapem, ghana
2018 — co–organizer, portrait ghana competition (with nuku studio)
2015 — assistant to photographer francis nii obodai provençal
lectures, talks & conversations
2025 on the job: learning, living, programming, university of applied arts, vienna
2025 on the job: learning, living, programming, the royal academy of art, kbk, den haag
2024 perception, perspective and the narrative image, pratt institute, new york
2024 reprogramming photography with the things that are left hanging in the air, conversation with lyle ashton harris, magnum photos, new york
2021 embracing the traumatic in the aesthetic unconscious with tracy thompson, kelvin haizel and wolfgang tillmans & kwasi ohene ayeh
2018 art talk with Eric gyamfi the studio, accra
solo exhibitions
2026 stomata: dr. mahashe’s open frames, foundation for contemporary art ghana (fca), accra
2024 certain winds from the south, mattress house, roman hill (prjct-kumasi), kumasi
2023 certain winds from the south foundation for contemporary art (fca), accra
2023 certain winds from the south, nuku studio, tamale
2023 fixing shadows: julius and i, autograph abp, london
2021 the things that are left hanging in the air like a rumour, centre for plant medicine research, mampɔn-akuapem, ghana
2019 fixing shadows: julius and I, foam museum, amsterdam as part of the foam paul huf award
2017 just like us: constellations, goethe institut, johannesburg
2016 see me see you, nubuke foundation ghana, as part of its yga program
selected group exhibitions
2026 settled as part of “sedimentations” mulhouse photography biennial
2026 certain winds from the south, group presentation with blaxtarlines kumasi, venice biennale, italy (ongoing)
2026 exposure: black queer visual constellation, cohen gallery at brown university, providence
2026 59th carnegie international, carnegie museum, Pittsburgh, usa (ongoing)
2026 ominous music playing kunstraum lakeside, klagenfurt, austria (upcoming)
2026 diriyah biennale, saudi arabia
2025 notes on friendship: breaking bread, ncai x scca tamale, nairobi
2025 kɔηsεt pāti, accra
2024 74th berlinale – forum expanded, berlin
2024 new york african film festival, new york, the african centre
2024 certain winds from the south, library of africa and the african diaspora (loatad), accra
2024 certain winds from the south, pa gya literary festival, accra
2024 certain winds from the south, quff, accra
2024 certain winds from the south, berlinale spotlight, unimac ift, accra
2024 wandering through bern on a new day, punya 2.0, kunsthalle bern, switzerland
2023 three shadows remembering light, in and out of time, gallery 1957, accra
2023 teak atlas: the situation in ljubljana, ljubljana biennale for graphic arts
2023 certain winds from the south, savannah centre for contemporary art (scca), tamale
2023 female chiefs of dagbon: a retrospective, nuku studio, tamale
2023 teak atlas: from where do we begin, worldmaking, mitchell-innes & nash, new york
2023 teak atlas: from where do we begin, ecologies of elsewhere, contemporary arts center, cincinnati
2023 what’chu looking at? who you speaking with? valletta, malta
2023 certain winds from the south, new york african film festival, brooklyn academy of museum, new york
2022 a different now is close enough to exhale on you, goodman gallery, cape town
2022 tracing emerging ecologies, nuku studio, tamale
2022 if we are happy in our dreams, does that count, ifa galerie, stuttgart
2021 the things that are left hanging in the air like a rumor, vienna biennale
2021 a diagnosis of time: unlearn what you have learned, redclay studio, tamale
2021 family affairs: family in current photography, hamburg
2020 fotofest biennale — african cosmologies, texas
2019 streams of consciousness, 12th bamako encounters biennale, mali
2019 africa state of mind, museum of the african diaspora, san francisco
2019 a certain bed, foam talent exhibitions (frankfurt, london, brooklyn)
2018 just like us, africa state of mind, new art exchange, nottingham
2018 present futures, photoville, new york
2018 just like us: drama queens, nubuke foundation, accra
2018 just like us: windows and mirrors study, afrikamuseum, netherlands
2017 call and response, alice austen museum, new york
2017 old ladies’ of gambaga, kuenyehia prize exhibition, the octagon accra
2017 memory and amnesia: in the presence of absent futures, knust prempeh library, kumasi
2016 just like us, magnum foundation open house, new york
2016 old ladies’ of gambaga, san jose foto festival, san jose
2016 urban nomads, addis photo festival, addis ababa
2016 asylum, lagos photo festival, lagos
2015 pride photo exhibition, oudekerk, amsterdam
2015 contestations, gwanza photo month, harare
selected publications
2025 true photo journal
2024 new perspectives: contemporary art from ghana, edited by elisabeth prah & bernard akoi-jackson
2024 photography – a queer history, flora dunster & theo gordon
2023 aperture magazine — accra issue
2021 architectural review — “just like us”
2021 ecologies and politics of the living — billie macternan
2021 ssense — “looking good”
2020 morder-n issue 2
2020 de volkskrant
2020 african cosmologies: photography, time and the other, schilt publishing
2020 africa state of mind, thames & hudson
2019 lensculture
2019 british journal of photography
2018 foam talent issue 52
2018 contemporary and (c&)
2018 the new york times
2018 world press photo
2018 elephant magazine
2018 aperture
2016 time magazine
2016 bbc
2016 the guardian
2016 design indaba
2016 feature shoot
2016 pdn
2016 magnum photos
collaborations
moses sumney — aromanticism and græ album covers and booklets
pureakan — editorial
center for plant medicine research — common medicinal plants of ghana (book/monograph)
poetra asantewaa — someone birthed them broken (book cover)
martin egblewogbe — the waiting (book cover)
dj yamz — 27 in accra (album cover)
dr. ellie gore — between hiv prevention and lgbti rights (book cover)
essays
2026 — to the crossroads: on ecstasy and unfinished business
in rotimi fani-kayode: tranquility of communion
wexner center for the arts
workshops
perception, perspective and the narrative image — pratt institute
photosynthesis — redclay studio, tamale
accra deaf hangout — hands-on academy, accra
a brief history of time — ussher fort, accra
impact queer photography workshop — accra
kabawil children photography workshop — fca accra
the good tree workshop — photography/optics for girls