Philip Kwame Apagya (born 1958) is a Ghanaian photographer who specialises in colour studio portraits against painted backdrops.
[2] Philip Kwame Apagya was born in Sekondi, Ghana, in 1958, and as the son of a photographer was apprenticed in his father's studio as a boy.
Apagya studied photojournalism at the Accra School of Journalism, before opening his own studio in Shama, on Ghana's west coast, in 1982.
[6] Apagya challenged the traditional methodology in his executions of studio portrait art and introduced new concepts into the form of photography.
Apagya paints shelves with televisions and speakers with enlarged main brand names, such as Sony, and refrigerators stocked full of food in his backdrops of interior locations, and for exterior locations he paints the famous and wealthy streets of Ghana as well as the Accra International Airport.