{"id":201995,"date":"2016-03-26T20:34:51","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T20:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=201995"},"modified":"2016-03-26T20:34:51","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T20:34:51","slug":"ghanaian-photographer-featured-in-instagram-inspired-10-historic-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=201995","title":{"rendered":"Ghanaian photographer featured in Instagram inspired 10 historic moments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Ghanaian photographer, Nana Kofi Acquah has been featured in a book containing photos from 10 historic moments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This special book was presented to Pope Francis by\u00a0Instagram\u2019s CEO and co-founder Kevin Systrom who met with Pope Francis at the Vatican late last month to discuss the power and resonance of simple photo shots.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The audience with the Pope at the Apostolic Palace, was a\u00a0move by Instagram to assert itself as the dominant platform for visual communication.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">That meet may have have worked because a couple of weeks later, Pope Francis made his Instagram debut.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In recent months, Instagram has been working at boosting\u00a0the social media sharing platform\u2019s discovery features and during their meet,\u00a0Systrom brought with him a book featuring 10 historic moments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These moments included the Nepalese earthquake and shots of Middle Eastern migrants, but it also featured a\u00a0simple but compelling image from Nana Kofi Acquah.<\/p>\n<div class=\"see-also\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>Nana Kofi Acquah normally\u00a0shares images of Ghana that seek to buck\u00a0the mainstream international media representations of Africa.<\/p>\n<p>To him, the African continent is much more than a place of penury and disease as encompassed by his picture below which shows him and a young child taking in the marvel of a lunar eclipse three years ago.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-202000\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/insta.png\" alt=\"insta\" width=\"501\" height=\"544\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Photographer and poet Nana Kofi also uses his travels around Africa to chronicle the lives of women at their most accomplished and at their most vulnerable.<\/p>\n<p>Nana Kofi is also a self-declared male feminist and he has stated that he is driven to change the narrative around African women where they are sometimes\u00a0portrayed as vulnerable and subdued.<\/p>\n<p>He has been featured on BBC and Reuters in his capacity as a Male Feminist and on CNN&#8217;s African Voices for attempting to redefine the\u00a0perceptions on Africa through his photographs and writings.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Ghanaian photographer, Nana Kofi Acquah has been featured in a book containing photos from 10 historic moments. 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