NANA YAW ODURO | Artist profiles
CAMEL HEART
Based in Accra, Nana Yaw Oduro is a young Ghanaian photographer who creates images based on his sensations.
OUT TO REACH
POUNDING HEART
MATTY'S DANCE
1ST JUDE
THE LONG STARE
Nana Yaw Oduro graduated from the business class of the University of Ghana and started photographing in 2015. He began his creative pursuit in poetry before turning to photography, when he felt he needed to visualise his ideas.
WE PLAY BEST TOGETHER, I
FEEL AT HOME
INFINIMENT COTY
HELLO MOTHER, IT'S ME, TILLY HAS LEFT ME
NEW YORK TIMES STYLE MAGAZINE
He explores boyhood in Suburban Ghana through fictional self-portraits. He is the stage director of his own emotions during the performance of a photo shoot in which his models are like actors, playing a biographical role.
TIME STYLE MAGAZINE
HAPPY EID
PART!
FAIR WEATHER FRIENDS
PHILIP
SOMEBODY TELLS ME WHY EVERYTHING HAPPENS
Nana Yaw employs alternatively tender, pure, and raw colour palettes in his photographs, added to a quirky use of everyday objects as accessories, in a space which is defined without being too precise. He shares how poetry and his childhood have shaped his pictorial compositions.
YOUNG JOSHUA ON SUNDAY
COME WITH ME. II
COAL ON CLAY
HE WAS SUCH A NOBLE MAN
FRUITS ARE FOR BOYS
His body of work embody a desire for freedom with the only existing boundary being the photographer’s imagination. He collaborates with publications and brands such as New York Times Style Magazine, Le point, GQ, ID, Cero, Aesthetica and Infiniment Coty.
THIS OR THAT
I MADE MY BED
A LITTLE BIT CLOSER_ I AM YOU, YOU ARE ME
I TREMBLE FOR YOU, MY TWIN
SCARED
Nana Yaw Oduro's work has been exhibited internationally at Chazen Museum USA, Nubuké Foundation Ghana, Photo London and 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair. In 2022 the Afikaris Gallery presented his second solo show “How I feel”.
JULIAN
HAPPY EID. II
ASCENSION; TAKE FLIGHT
TAKE IT EASY. BUT TAKE IT
WAKE
After having contributed to many books, he finally had the opportunity to put out his very own: “LOSING IT AT HOME” (Snap Collective London, 2023). The book reflects Oduro's personal journey and the emotional landscape of life in Ghana, capturing a spectrum of overflowing emotions and experiences.
SOME THINGS MYSTERIOUS BOYS DO
SWEET RED
FALL IS FREE
He aims to produce a certain softness and harmony between shapes and colours, between man and nature... “My work is constantly showing the artistic and poetic vibrations of how I feel”.
I MIGHT BEND AND LISTEN TO YOU
A SILENT DISCOURSE
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