Philip Kwame Apagya

Philip Kwame Apagya (1958) is a Ghanaian artist whose color photographs reflect a contemporary twist on traditional West African portraiture. After a period of apprenticeship in his father’s studio, Apagya worked for years as an itinerant photographer in the Ivory Coast. After his graduation in photojournalism at the Ghana Institute of Journalism in Accra, he started his own studio (PK’s Normal Photo Studio) in Shama (Ghana), in 1982. In Apagya’s photos, subjects interact with his brightly painted 2-D backdrops, interiors and exteriors that catalogue the trappings and accoutrement of an affluent international culture.