An exhibition of black and white pictures by the award-winning American photographer Megan E. Fettig, will open at the Alliance Française in Accra on Wednesday, May 18 2005



An exhibition of black and white pictures by the award-winning American photographer Megan E. Fettig, will open at the Alliance Française in Accra on Wednesday, May 18 2005

Photo exhibition at Alliance Française

Accra Daily
Ghana
May 11, 2005

An exhibition of black and white pictures by the award-winning American photographer Megan E. Fettig, will open at the Alliance Française in Accra on Wednesday, May 18 2005.

The photographs, which were shot in the Senegalese village of Mancankani while Fettig was serving as a US Peace Corps Volunteer, depict various images about the lives of inhabitants of this sleepy little village with a population of one hundred and twenty people.

Fettig chose a very important moment in her life -indeed, the realisation of a decade long dream to experience life in an African village to document these evocating images from Mancankani.

"I sincerely hope these photographs would build a bridge from one family to the other while exposing the vibrancy of life in West Africa" says Fettig, who is currently working on another set of pictures taken in Mancankani.

Her photographs reveal details of life in this little known village - details that are also familiar with numerous Ghanaian villages. These include women and children undertaking their daily chores as well as some cultural, communal and social activities.

The pictures also reveal some of the problems faced by numerous African villages such as lack of portable water, poverty and deforestation, which must be tackled so as to halt the spread of the Sahara desert.

Fettig was educated at the Carnegie Mellon University (Pennsylvania, USA) where she graduated with a degree in Graphic Design and Photography. She has exhibited her works in a number of venues.

These include the National Museum in Accra and the Philadelphia International Institute (USA).

In 2003, a piece from her Senegalese series won an entrance into a juried All Alaskan Travelling Show titled "Rarified Light" while another took the second place in a juried competition at the University of Alaska, which is located in the city of Anchorage, United States of America.

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