Kyle Weeks’ new photo book Good News is the culmination of six years spent photographing Ghana’s innovative, cosmopolitan and fluid youth culture: Photos courtesy of Kyle Weeks
goes back to his childhood in Namibia, when he would watch his father react to the news. The “constant stream of negative stories” he observed about his home country and Africa at large prompted a simple question in his mind: “Why is there never good news?”
“The youth [in Ghana] have such an authentic approach to creativity. They have a completely different frame of reference. It’s so authentic and unlike what I see in the Western world” – Kyle Weeks Traces of this history leaps out from Weeks’ images, particularly photographs of the physical and built environment. In one, a trio of men gather around a swimming pool alongside a dilapidated diving board – a relic from a lost era. The men blend seamlessly into the landscape, their bodies, under Weeks’ view, turned sculptural. One of the men dips a bucket into the pool, now a makeshift well.
. “I’ll always look like an outsider in Africa,” he says. “People on the street would assume that I [was] working for a news channel or trying to depict some facet of their society [or] culture they might not be proud to show the Western world, if I can call it that.”Weeks started carrying images he’d made previously to show people what he was focusing on. “I was predominantly approaching younger people on the streets.
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