by Ke’ali McCarter

Throughout this trip, I took hundreds of photos a week but with a busy schedule and little downtime, I was not able to look through many of them till the trip was over. As my time in Ghana turns from experience to memories, here are some of my favorite photos that got looked over the first time.

The man in the waterfall part two.

An alternate photo to the one I posted in my last blog. Over the past couple of weeks this photo has grown to be my favorite of the two, I’m not sure why. I love how cinematic this photo is, it reminds of the water planet scene from Interstellar.

Pan hand

One of my favorites from early on that somehow never found its way into a blog post. This photo was taken during an evening photoshoot in the medina market. The sun was setting over a sea of empty pans as street sellers made there way home.

Height order

Three kids look on with interest as our group wanders the streets of town in Kumasi. I enjoy the way that kids of all ages play together often the older helping the little ones, very different from a more segregated type of schooling and socializing seen in America.

Brown eyed girl

A young girl’s peer through my car window looking in hopes of getting some food or some money. At the start of my trip it felt wrong to take photo of these kids. However time and time again they would see my camera and ask for me to take photos of them. Most people in the country pretend like they don’t exist, maybe they just liked being seen.

After school

Two young men observe a photoshoot from the porch of run down building. Inside, kids play video games and socialize in a communal after-school area/cyber-café created for kids who may not have games, Wi-Fi, or tv at home. The colors of this photo are some of my favorite from the trip.

The artist in the art

As I was helping live tweet for an art event, I captured this photo of local Ghanaian artist Michael Jackson Blebo. The photo is a reflection of him in a mirror that is a part of the artwork that he had on display. My own visual twist on seeing the artist in the work.