Photo by Godelive Kasangati Kabena

His ongoing interest in the materiality of imaging substances is explored through various methods, including sculptural, theatrical, and light projections using reflective materials. These approaches delve into themes of identity, intimacy, belonging and decolonial thoughts. Prah’s work explores how photographic objects deteriorate and accumulate in time integrating fragments of his personal archives—his family photo album and images of his immediate surroundings.

These reinterpretations of images appear weathered and nuanced with signs of wear and tear, mirroring the artist's encounter with the deteriorating photographic objects in his family album. In his inquiry into reading photographic objects beyond their physical representation, he challenges the possibilities of archival materials. The family album itself shifts in meaning, evolving from a mere collection of photographs into a family archival object, as articulated by Enwezor (2008).

Edward Prah holds a Master in Fine Arts from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) in Kumasi, Ghana. He studied Painting and Sculpture at the University of Education, Winneba (2020).

Notable exhibitions include A Play in Gold (Kwamo, Kumasi, Ghana, 2024), Out of Breath (Mastercard Impact Building, Kumasi, Ghana, 2023). Group exhibitions include Fragments of a World After Its Own Image (Apalazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy, 2025), 360°+ Facets, Rears, and Musings Beyond Urban Cues (Museum of Science and Technology, Accra, Ghana, 2024).

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Edward Prah, artist, and a photographer, (b. Ghana), lives and works in Kumasi, Ghana and London, United Kingdom.