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Self-portrait. Accra, 2025.
About · Kofi Dako

Kofi Dako

Ghanaian documentary photographer working across architecture and the archive.

His work explores Ghana’s built environment: surveying and recording contemporary architecture, and digitising the archive that explains it.

Exhibition Producer at the Si Hene Foundation, he leads exhibition design and production alongside archival and architectural research. He has designed exhibitions for Rita Mawuena Benissan at Zeitz MOCAA and Gallery 1957 London, Godfried Donkor at Firstsite Gallery, and Pete Souza at the Dikan Center, and designs Gallery 1957’s booths at Frieze and Art Basel.

In 2023 he graduated from the inaugural cohort of the Dikan Center’s Photojournalism & Documentary Practice programme. His ongoing project is his grandfather’s archive: photographs, letters, postcards and recordings from the mid-to-late twentieth century, deepened by a 2025 masterclass with the Willis Bell Archive.

BasedAccra, Ghana
Works inPhotography · Architecture · Archive
Available forCommissions
Selected CV
Selected experience
2024–
Si Hene Foundation — Exhibition Producer
Exhibition design & archival research · Accra
Education & training
2025
Archiving Masterclass
Willis Bell Archive
2024
Project Management (PMP)
Project Management Institute
2023
Photojournalism & Documentary Practice
Dikan Center, Accra
2017
BSc Architecture
KNUST, Kumasi
Exhibitions & commissions
2026
It’s a Numbers Game — design
Godfried Donkor · Firstsite, Colchester
2024–25
The Procession — design
Rita Mawuena Benissan · Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town
2025
The Ones Before Her Were Covered In Gold — design
Rita Mawuena Benissan · Gallery 1957, London
2024–
Gallery 1957 fair booths — design
Frieze London · Seoul · Untitled Miami · Art Basel HK
2023
Obama: An Intimate Portrait — design
Pete Souza · Dikan Center, Accra
2023
Moments in Time — exhibited
Stories of the Unseen · Dikan Center, Accra
Contact

For commissions, prints, exhibitions, and archive enquiries. I’d be glad to hear from you.

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