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, which captures Black boyhood in a palette of colours that radiate warmth and softness. “If you see certain groups portrayed in a different way than you normally see them portrayed, it can help you change your view of them,” Sekyi adds. “It can also help a group of people, if they have beautiful images of themselves, get a better self image.”
As such, his portraits are proud: a girl on a beach in a pink strapless bandeau glances at the camera, her blue contact lenses matching the sky; boys smile through hands that cover their faces; others seem to look wistfully beyond Sekyi’s lens. The photos could be taken in the 70s or 80s — one of his subjects, a model he met in Amsterdam on a shoot for the brand, wears a black string vest outside his family home in Ghana. A bedsheet frames the image.
Others ooze with vital energy like his photographs of Ghanian biker crews, which capture a softer side to the young men and their loud bikes that dominate the streets on Sundays — a mix of grandmas, kids and women with babies looking on. Sekyi documented the scene while clinging onto the back of a rider, in nothing but shorts and a T-shirt. “It almost felt like you were in a movie,” he says. It was nighttime, and he remembers seeing “guys going past while doing a wheelie.
One of the backflipping boys was a gold miner, and a tattoo on Sekyi’s arm caught his eye. It features the words: “Stay Gold” below the Fibonacci spiral — a symbol used for centuries by artists, architects, musicians; and later photographers in their compositions. It refers to a divine proportion recorded by Renaissance artists that can be found throughout the natural world.
Sekyi didn’t grow up with his Ghanaian heritage and language taking centre stage, as a child of the African diaspora living in a suburb outside Amsterdam. And his father shared little about the village, a few hours outside of Takoradi, where he was raised — what he did share, Sekyi struggled to connect with. Returning to Ghana has changed that.
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