Screenings:
Sharjah Art Foundation.
Howard University.
LagosPHOTO
Like many artists at the end of their careers, photographer Gerald Annan-Forson grapples with what to do with his body of work. He contemplates his creative and historical legacy as he reviews boxes and cabinets holding 200,000 negatives and photographs made over fifty years. This verité documentary deals with analogue photography as a medium in crisis. Annan-Forson reflects on his experience as a photojournalist and his concerns with rapidly changing technologies. Annan-Forson’s photography gives us a window into the small aspects of urban life as well as groundbreaking events in Ghana from the 1970s through 2000s. He shares the complexities of growing up with an Irish-British mother and Fanti father during an era of decolonization. For the photographer, the practical work of shooting with a film camera is tied to the struggle to maintain and organize a vast collection. The film explores how memory is sedimented in the afterlives of photographic images. Cinematography and editing with Fotumbo.
Documentary Short