The people I met in Ghana were friendly and welcoming, with the exception of one officious young man I met in a public park in Kumasi. I was walking around making pictures of various things that caught my eye when he approached me and demanded to know what I was doing. "Just making some pictures," I replied. "Who authorized you to do this?" he demanded. "Nobody," I said. "I'm just making some photographs."
After a brief but not very friendly conversation, he left. Presumably to find someone to arrest me. I left too. In the opposite direction. Fortunately, I never saw him again.
There were kids everywhere, all clamoring for me to take their picture.
One day we went to the town of Aflao, in the extreme southeastern corner of Ghana, right against the border with Togo. The church in Aflao is actually built on the beach.
Deaf-mute woman, Aflao. Notice that even though she's poor, her femininity demands a pretty headscarf.
In Aflao, I met Dann Devine, who is an evangelist for the Church of God.
This young man in rural Ghana spends his days guarding his family's two goats. In a poor country they are a valuable resource.
A minister in training at the Church's Bible School, Kumasi.
All photographs made with Olympus OM film cameras and various Olympus Zuiko lenses on Fujichrome 100D film and scanned with a Konica-Minolta 5400 scanner.
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