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NANA YAW ODURO

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CAMEL HEART

Based in Accra, Nana Yaw Oduro is a young Ghanaian photographer who creates images based on his sensations.

OUT TO REACH

POUNDING HEART

NEXT TIME I SEE MATTY, WE DANCE

CERO MAGAZINE

PHILIPP

Nana Yaw Oduro graduated from the business class of the University of Ghana and started photographing in 2015. He began his creative pursuit in poetry before turning to photography, when he felt he needed to visualise his ideas. 

IF WE PLAY LIKE THIS, WE STAND A CHANCE

LOSING IT AT HOME

INFINIMENT COTY

RED PHONE

TIME STYLE MAGAZINE

He explores boyhood in Suburban Ghana through fictional self-portraits. He is the stage director of his own emotions during the performance of a photo shoot in which his models are like actors, playing a biographical role.

TIME STYLE MAGAZINE

HAPPY EID

PART!

FAIR WEATHER FRIENDS

PHILIPP

FEELING BLUE

Nana Yaw employs alternatively tender, pure, and raw colour palettes in his photographs, added to a quirky use of everyday objects as accessories, in a space which is defined without being too precise. He shares how poetry and his childhood have shaped his pictorial compositions.

CERO MAGAZINE

SAND WALK

IGNANT MAGAZINE

HE WAS SUCH A NOBLE MAN

FRUITS ARE FOR BOYS

His body of work embody a desire for freedom with the only existing boundary being the photographer’s imagination. He collaborates with publications and brands such as New York Times Style Magazine, Le point, GQ, ID, Cero, Aesthetica and Infiniment Coty. 

THIS OR THAT

I MADE MY BED

A LITTLE BIT CLOSER

I TREMBLE FOR YOU

SCARED

Nana Yaw Oduro's work has been exhibited internationally at Chazen Museum USA, Nubuké Foundation Ghana, Photo London and 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair. In 2022 the Afikaris Gallery presented his second solo show “How I feel”.

GQ MAGAZINE

HAPPY EID. II

HOW I FEEL

TAKE IT EASY. BUT TAKE IT

WAKE

After having contributed to many books, he finally had the opportunity to put out his very own: “LOSING IT AT HOME(Snap Collective London, 2023). The book reflects Oduro's personal journey and the emotional landscape of life in Ghana, capturing a spectrum of overflowing emotions and experiences. 

LOSING IT AT HOME

SWEET RED

FALL IS FREE

He aims to produce a certain softness and harmony between shapes and colours, between man and nature... “My work is constantly showing the artistic and poetic vibrations of how I feel”.

MIGHT BEND AND LISTEN TO YOU

A SILENT DISCOURSE

 

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