Pride Photo x Foam presents: Sasso
Sasso explores queer expression and belonging in Ghana through intimate portraits of friends, lovers, and chosen family, creating a shared space between the artist and their collaborators. The work reflects on how identity is shaped through gesture, styling, and everyday performance.
Sasso takes its title from a Ga word (a language spoken by the Gas in Southern Ghana) that was historically used for gender-nonconforming men. Within this series, Agyeibea creates images that centre agency, presence, and the complexity of queer life in Ghana. In a context where same-sex relations remain criminalised in Ghana, and where recent legislation has sought to further restrict LGBTQIA+ lives, queer individuals face ongoing discrimination and hostility.
About the artists
NANA AKUA AGYEIBEA ASARE-BOYE is a visual artist based in Accra, Ghana. Working across photography and archival research, their practice focuses on queer expression, performance, and memory. Photographing those closest to them, their work centres collaboration and documenting queer life in Ghana through personal and collective histories. Agyeibea were a fellow of the Women Photograph Mentorship Program and have exhibited with Nuku Studio.
About Pride Photo
Pride Photo is an Amsterdam based non-profit organisation founded in 2010, which aims to celebrate, and create awareness around, the multiplicity of LGBTQIA+ experience through the medium of photography and visual storytelling.
By bringing together the work of international photographers, artists and makers, Pride Photo strives to represent the plurality and diversity of the LGBTQIA+ community. Offering a glimpse into the broad spectrum of gender and sexual diversity through both individual and collective expression. The annual photography contest, which is free to enter, and open to photographers at all stages of their careers, results in a unique exhibition curated and showcased throughout the Netherlands, and internationally. The exhibition Queer Radiance, In Common Light, is currently on view outside Amsterdam's De Hallen at Tollensstraat 57–45, 1053 RS Amsterdam. The exhibition opened on 7 July and will remain on view until 4 September 2026.
A16 Years in Print archive print sale will take place on 25 July. You can find more details here.
All images © Nana Akua Agyeibea Asare-Boye