Nana Kwadwo Agyei Addo is a Ghanaian artist and photographer whose work is rooted in a lifelong fascination with images.

Growing up, Nana was what his teachers might have described as a late bloomer. He was not much of a reader, and books were not initially the way he made sense of the world. Instead, he found himself drawn to magazines and films. He would spend hours looking through pages, watching movies and absorbing the images, characters, clothes, colours and worlds they contained.

That early relationship with visual culture continues to shape the work he makes today.

His practice is, in many ways, an attempt to return to that feeling of childhood: the excitement of encountering an image that makes you stop, look again, imagine a story and wonder about the world beyond the frame. Rather than working from a fixed visual formula, Nana creates the kinds of images he has always been drawn to.

Photography, fashion, portraiture and storytelling become ways of building worlds that feel somewhere between something remembered and something imagined.

At its simplest, Nana's work is about making images that he would have wanted to find in the magazines he grew up looking through, or within the films he could spend hours watching.

He makes the work he likes to look at.