Photography

Alphonso Lisk-Carew

Alphonso Sylvester Lisk-Carew (1883–1969) was a Sierra Leonean photographer, active from around 1905 to the 1960s. Alphonso and his brother Arthur operated a photographic studio in Freetown, advertising as the "Lisk-Carew Brothers Photographers". Over their long career, extending through the first half of the 20th century, the Lisk-Carew brothers produced a large collection of photographs documenting life in Sierra Leone during the colonial era. Photographs by Lisk-Carew are held in some major public collections in Europe and the US. Among other early historical images from West Africa, a group portrait of three young African women by Lisk-Carew was presented by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in their 2015 exhibition and catalogue In and Out of the Studio: Photographic Portraits from West Africa.

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• ▸Arno Rafael Minkkinen
• ▸Delphinus
• ▸Andrew P. Hill

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