The title of photographer Kyle Weeks’ latest project Good News goes back to his childhood in Namibia, when he would watch his father react to the news. The “constant stream of negative stories” he observed about his home country and Africa at large prompted a simple question in his mind: “Why is there never good news?”
The question would come back to Weeks years later in Ghana. “Plastic bags with catchphrases like ‘Good News’ are something you see quite often in Ghana,” he explains. “Similarly, taxis are regularly decorated with catchphrases stuck [to] their back windows. ‘Never Late’ is one that comes to mind.” When a young man arrived for a portrait session with Weeks, a plastic bag full of clothes carefully selected for the shoot in tow, he noticed that the bag read ‘Good News’. An ‘aha’ moment occurred, and the phrase became the working title for Weeks’ project.
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