Born in 1990 in Bekwai, Ghana
Lives and works in Accra, Ghana
Eric Gyamfi is a photographer living and working in Ghana. Eric has a B.A in Information studies and with Economics from the University of Ghana (2010 to 2014). He is currently pursuing an MFA at the Department of Painting and Sculpture, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (2018 - ). Gyamfi is also a fellow at the Photographers’ Master Class (Khartoum, Sudan 2016 and Nairobi, Kenya 2017, Johannesburg, South Africa 2018). He was a participant of the Nuku Studio Photography Workshops (2016) and World Press Photo West African Master Class (2017), both in Accra.
Gyamfi has a background in documentary photography. His interests in the medium and forms of the photograph(ic), underlies his experiments with hybrid digital and analogue/chemical processes. His recent interests revolves around the affinities between photography and the weather, through an enquiry into plant chemistry. With these experiments, he reflects on the limits of
photographic frame(ings) and what possibilities lay outside of them.