New Internationalist - 11.2019 - 12.2019

Highlighting the work of artists and

photographers from the Majority World

Two young boys pose for Ghanaian photographer Derrick Ofosu Boateng, happily tangled together with a garden hose. Boateng, who almost

exclusively uses his father’s smartphone for his art-photography, says his goal is to be there to catch the magic before the moment passes. He

only started experimenting with the medium in 2017 and tries to challenge misperceptions of Africa as a place ‘full of atrocities and chaos’.

‘The world doesn’t see the happy times or know the extraordinary lifestyles and behaviours we Africans have,’ he says. Check out his images at

instagram.com/derrick_o_boateng

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