James Barnor

James Barnor Hon. FRPS, OV is a Ghanaian photographer who has been based in London since the 1990s. His career spans six decades, and although for much of that period his work was not widely known, it has latterly been discovered by new audiences. In his street and studio photography, Barnor represents societies in transition in the 1950s and 1960s: Ghana moving toward independence, and London becoming a multicultural metropolis. He has said: "I was lucky to be alive when things were happening...when Ghana was going to be independent and Ghana became independent, and when I came to England the Beatles were around. Things were happening in the 60s, so I call myself Lucky Jim." He was Ghana's first full-time newspaper photographer in the 1950s, and he is credited with introducing colour processing to Ghana in the 1970s. It has been said: "James Barnor is to Ghana and photojournalism what Ousmane Sembène was to Senegal and African cinema."

6 June 1929

Born on the same birth date (6 June 1929): Sunil Dutt

Born on the same birth day (6 June): Angelo Moriondo • Anthony Pilkington • Becky Sauerbrunn • Björn Borg • D. Ramanaidu • David Blunkett • David Connolly • David Scott • Edwin G. Krebs • Friedrich Bayer • Gavin Hoyte • Jason Isaacs • Joel Rinne • Michael Krohn-Dehli • Richard Smalley • Willie John McBride • Władysław Żmuda

Born in the same month (June 1929): Alfred Miodowicz • Anne Frank • Ayhan Şahenk • Brigid Brophy • E. O. Wilson • Edgar Bronfman Sr. • Francesco Marchisano • Fred Bruemmer • John McCluskey, Baron McCluskey • June Carter Cash • Jürgen Habermas • Karolos Papoulias • Ken McGregor • Oriana Fallaci • Ralph McQuarrie • Sunil Dutt • Tibor Rubin • Tigran Petrosian • Tom Taylor, Baron Taylor of Blackburn • Yang Ti-liang