For anyone who still believes that photography from Africa must be political, didactic, or heartbreaking, the photographs of Philip Kwame Apagya immediately lay those notions to rest. Apagya, who lives and works in the small Ghanaian fishing village of Shama, has created a series of color portraits of the local citizenry posed against cheerful, upbeat backdrops. His subjects smile like tourists in front of idealized views of middle-class living rooms, high-tech offices, tropical gardens, and modern city streets, as if they were visiting a vision of a modernized future that is not yet quite... More >>>