{"id":34666,"date":"2021-05-30T23:02:24","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T23:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=34666"},"modified":"2021-05-30T23:02:24","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T23:02:24","slug":"james-barnor-the-91-year-olds-photos-bringing-ghana-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=34666","title":{"rendered":"James Barnor: The 91-year-old&#8217;s photos bringing Ghana to life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>James Barnor started taking photos in the 1940s when he was given a Baby Brownie camera.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghanaian-British photographer became Ghana&#8217;s first international press photographer around the time of independence. Now aged 91, he still takes photos for his own enjoyment, having taken a course on digital photography at his retirement home.<\/p>\n<p>His work of 75 years paints a vivid picture of the social history of both Ghana and Britain, as he lived in both countries for many years.<\/p>\n<p>It has now been brought together in an exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery in London.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-57286417\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Barnor started taking photos in the 1940s when he was given a Baby Brownie camera. The Ghanaian-British photographer became Ghana&#8217;s first international press photographer around the time of independence. Now aged 91, he still takes photos for his own enjoyment, having taken a course on digital photography at his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/p09k3pmb.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}