The Ghanaian photographer James Barnor—born in Accra, Ghana, in 1929—is widely acknowledged as his country’s first full-time photographer. In the early 1950s, young Barnor established his renowned Ever Young studio and started documenting a nation on the cusp of independence. In 1959, his studies took him to London, where he worked on assignment for the South African magazine Drum and helped bring images of Black women into British magazines. In the 1970s, Barnor returned to his home country and developed its first color-processing lab. Now the photographer is 94 years old. This survey covers six decades of his brilliant career. —Elena Clavarino