In Photos: From Ghana to Paris

Family, Kenya, 1958

These newly discovered colour pictures documented people in their communities with a focus on workers and local industries.

Two Women on the Beach, Somalia, 1958

‘Until I discovered photography in 1939, I had quite a normal life,” he wrote. “The banking business and the export business, with a few years prospecting for gold in south-western United States and Central America constituted my conception of the ideal life. Came 1939, and photography – and I really started to live.’