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Photography by Ira Gardner

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This is a short film about the photography of Willis Bell who documented life in Ghana from 1958-1978. I was part of a project to restore the collection and raise funds to build a new playground in Ghana. One of my students at the time Shayne Garcia helped film the project in 2012.

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