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In this on-going series of in conversations hear from leading individuals talk about how they use photography as artists, scientists, educators, publishers and curators. All our speakers are recent RPS Award recipients who have been recognised for their contribution to the medium. They are discussing their work with those who know them and their work.
James Barnor is a Ghanaian photographer with a passionate interest in people and cultures with a remarkable career spanning more than six decades. He began his practice in the late 1940s in Accra, Ghana, soon setting up his own portrait studio, “
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ver Young in Jamestown. In 1950, he became the Daily Graphic’s first photojournalist, covering local politics, sports and general news. During this time he also worked for Jim Bailey of
dumped one hundred thirty five thousand tons of frozen chicken on the ghanian market alone for prices below the cost of production the equivalent of one hundred twelve million birds an oversupply that gutted the domestic sector. this is the local competition and this is all the seen on court one of ghana s last poultry farmers. he started with two hundred birds. now he s got twenty two thousand the little ones aren t a hassle it s when they grow up. the. oldest and shows us a little trick for wayne their hands. and their pelvic bone keeps them quiet. but catching chickens is the least of his worries. and then there is
this is quiet compared to that is the problem. because of the. imported chicken. hi there is. a decade ago canadians produced eighty percent of broilers themselves production plunged with the foreign competition to less than five percent. say one government after the next has let them down. the problem is augustine s chicken costs double the price of the cheap imports although he has one of the few large scale operations left in ghana it s nowhere near as efficient as its overseas rivals and like other farmers augusten doesn t have the infrastructure. fee. bogus since customers are is neighbors and friends. thank you so very carefully