These are some of my favourite photographs of life on the streets and beaches of Accra.
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Accra-Tema Motorway near the Airport Residential Area. During the Harmattan season, the haze creates an apocalyptic atmosphere.
Labadi/Osu beach.
Spintex Road.
“Beach Road” connects Accra to Tema, snaking along a series of beaches. It is scenic and slow and some spots are prone to bad traffic jams, but it’s well worth the drive on a weekend.
Adjiringanor.
A man and his phone at the entrance of a home in Adjiringanor. I used a tripod to keep the camera still so that I could capture the dramatic fall-off of the street light.
Shooting the breeze in Adjiringanor.
Three friends hanging out on a rock on the beach in Osu on a hazy Sunday afternoon. During Harmattan the combination of haze and seaspray is quite dramatic.
Liberation Road near the Tetteh Quarshie Interchange. The man on the right used to sit along this street all day. He seemed to be struggling with his mental health. Everyone (myself included) passed him by on their way to something or somewhere else. I titled this photo “The Boulevard of Broken Dreams” after the song by Greenday.
Every town in Africa has a place where the tarred road ends and a more rural reality begins. This dirt road links Nmai Djorn with Ashaiman, through Ashale Botwe.
This is part of a series titled “the horsemen of Sakumono Beach”, but which I didn’t complete . Many young men in Sakumono and other beaches around Accra earn a living by giving horse rides to beach-goers.
Sakumono beach on a Sunday afternoon, with the Port of Tema in the background. A fierce storm was brewing in the background but the beach-goers were unfazed.
The skies got darker but no one left the beach until the skies burst open.
Accra-Tema Motorway.
On some Sunday afternoons, some children and teens gather to learn and show off bicycle stunts.
