The documentary photographer Peter DiCampo’s remarkable ongoing project focuses on the lack of electricity in the developing world. With evocative, sharply observed cinematography, the film shows how residents of under-served communities in northern Ghana — where the sun sets at 6pm and rises at 6am — effectively live half of their lives in the dark.
For Ghanaian villagers, no electricity means living half their lives in the dark
Director and Producer: Peter DiCampo
1 April 2014
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