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1. www.gettyimages.com › photos › john-akomfrah207 John Akomfrah Photos & High Res Pictures - Getty Images

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   Browse Getty Images' premium collection of high-quality, authentic John Akomfrah photos & royalty-free pictures, taken by professional Getty Images photographers. Available in multiple sizes and formats to fit your needs.

2. mackenzie.art › exhibition › john-akomfrah-the-lastJohn Akomfrah: The Last Angel of History - MacKenzie Art Gallery

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   Jan 14, 2017 · Presented to coincide with Black History Month in February 2017, his acclaimed film The Last Angel of History (1996) introduces audiences to the “data thief,” a mysterious figure who travels through space and time in search of a key to the future of black culture.

3. www.frieze.com › disenchanting-world-john-akomfrahThe Disenchanting World of John Akomfrah | Frieze

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   Portrait of John Akomfrah, 2024. Image commissioned for frieze. Photograph: Suzannah Pettigrew. Due to the timing of our interview, Akomfrah is subject to an embargo meaning that he can only reveal so much about what would be on view at the British pavilion.

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4. www.smithsonianmag.com › smithsonian-institutionArtist John Akomfrah Is Having a Moment | Smithsonian

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   Oct 24, 2023 · Photography by Jack Hems. Our daily immersion in a bombardment of images, in repeated patterns, at a fraught moment in contemporary history, makes the multichannel work of the artist John...

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5. www.royalacademy.org.uk › name › john-akomfrah-raSir John Akomfrah | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts

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   CV. John Akomfrah is a widely respected artist and filmmaker, whose works are characterised by their investigations into memory, postcolonialism, temporality and aesthetics and often explores the experiences of migrant diasporas globally.

6. www.ft.com › content › e35e6ba5-85f0-40ec-84c0-1dJohn Akomfrah on exploring colonialism, migration and ...

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   Nov 9, 2023 · The artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah has vivid memories of the coup that ousted Kwame Nkrumah in Ghana in 1966, when he was eight. His pan-Africanist father was an Nkrumah loyalist who “died...

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   Who is John Akomfrah?

   • Photography by Jack Hems. Our daily immersion in a bombardment of images, in repeated patterns, at a fraught moment in contemporary history, makes the multichannel work of the artist John Akomfrah both familiar and especially compelling. And the Ghanaian-born, London-based filmmaker is getting noticed for it.

   Artist John Akomfrah Is Having a Moment | At the Smithsonian

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   What is Akomfrah interested in?

   • For Akomfrah, this is “history in its purest form; it preserves, in the most pristine forests, what the Portuguese explorers, British pirates and Spanish conquistadors saw — what drew their breath”. His interest is partly in the “powerful drives at the heart of the colonial project”. Migration, he adds, is “primarily a utopian impulse”.

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   What does Akomfrah do for a living?

   • In May 2019, Akomfrah participated in the inaugural, critically acclaimed Ghana Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, with his latest work Four Nocturnes. In 2017 Akomfrah was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to art and film making in The Queen’s Birthday Honours.

   Sir John Akomfrah | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts

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   Is it a coincidence that Akomfrah was asked to do something?

   • “Nor is it a coincidence that when I was asked to do something I was like, ‘Yes!’” It was in 1982 that Akomfrah, who had moved to the United Kingdom with his family as a child, co-founded the Black Audio Film Collective. One of the collective’s significant early works was the single-channel piece Handsworth Songs, which Akomfrah directed.

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   When does John Akomfrah 5 Murmurations open?

   • “John Akomfrah: Purple” continues at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. through January 7, 2024. “John Akomfrah: Five Murmurations” opened October 14 at the National Museum of African Art in Washington, D.C. Its closing date hasn’t been determined.

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   What was Akomfrah's first film?

   • Their first film, Handsworth Songs (1986) explored the events surrounding the 1985 riots in Birmingham and London through a combination of archive footage, still photos and newsreel. The film won several international prizes and established a multi-layered visual style that has become a recognisable motif of Akomfrah’s practice.

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8. visualarts.britishcouncil.org › collection › artistsJohn Akomfrah | Artists | Collection | British Council − ...

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   2017. Korea, Seoul, Seoul Museum of Art. Tate Modern Display: John Akomfrah. 2017. UK, London, Tate Modern. The British Council Collection has 8500 works of modern and contemporary British art: painting, sculpture, photography, video, graphics, ceramics and new media.