John Akomfrah, the British-Ghanaian artist whose ambitious films and screened installations have tackled colonial legacies, climate change, and immigration, has been selected to represent Britain at ...

During lockdown in 2020, British-Ghanaian filmmaker John Akomfrah captured a world in crisis, enlisting friends and family to document their lives at home in black and white imagery. The resulting ...

A founding member of the Black Audio Film Collective, Akomfrah has explored Black life in Britain and beyond through acute observational films. Hyperallergic: Did you start out wanting to do something ...

After a three year hiatus, the New Museum welcomed back art lovers and patrons to its Spring Gala in New York City. Recent Academy Award winner Danny Glover was on hand to honor his dear friend John ...

Jamaican-British sociology scholar, Hall is heard to remark: “Every new configuration contains masses of the old.” He was referring to the way history repeats itself — uncannily, inevitably — yet ...

Internationally renowned artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah addresses the global COVID-19 pandemic, murder of George Floyd, and worldwide protests in support of Black Lives Matter in this visual essay ...

John Akomfrah: Purple introduces the artist’s largest ever video installation, an immersive six-channel work, to Washington, D.C., for the first time. An enveloping, hour-long symphony of image and ...

John Akomfrah, “Untitled” (2016), C-type print mounted on Dibond, framed: 104.4 x 155.2 x 6 cm / 41 3/4 x 62 x 2 3/8 in (all works © Smoking Dogs Films, courtesy ...

As visitors enter the gallery now housing the climate artwork “Purple” by John Akomfrah at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., they are greeted by a light sculpture made out of dirty plastic ...

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John Akomfrah is a British artist and filmmaker. He co-founded the Black Audio Film Collective with friends while studying at Portsmouth Polytechnic in 1982, and since then has continued his ...