Dikan Center, Accra- Ghana

Instructors: Jessica Sarkodie

April. 29, 2023, 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. 

One-day workshop 

This women-only workshop focuses on cultivating your authentic voice through narrative and documentary practice. In this unique workshop, Jessica Sarkodie will work with women photographers to elevate their work to the next level. The workshop will be free to chosen participants for a day and aimed at female photographers of all levels. The group will foster discussions on female photographers’ challenges and how to overcome them to carve out careers in Africa.  This workshop will be an inspiring and safe space—participants work in group critiques, advising about developing the images and stories. If the photographer has a body of work she has already started, this workshop will help the photographer develop her ideas and take her work in new directions. Jessica will advise on professional networking, editing portfolios, and finding and creating paid work.

Jessica Sarkodie is a Ghanaian photographer with an eye for the unexpected, the overlooked, and the unknown. After earning her undergraduate degree at Cornell University and working briefly in NYC, she moved back to Accra. Inspired by the familiar yet seeming newness of the city she grew up in, she now works on telling the unembellished stories that surround us all - stories that we may or may not know yet often overlooked. Jessica’s work predominantly comprises travel and documentary narratives, with an insistence on rawness - an attempt to exhibit people and scenes as they really are.

Jessica’s works have been featured in; the Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Condé Nast Traveler, Conde Nast Traveller UK, Marie Claire, Suitcase Magazine, Marie Claire, Allure Magazine, Bon Appetit Magazine, and many more.