Hey,

I'm Deryk.


Deryk Owusu Bempah is a Ghanaian born photographer living and working in Ghana, born on the 31st of March. I completed Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology with Honors in BFA Painting from the Department of Painting and Sculpture, BlaxTARLINES KUMASI, project space for contemporary art.

From grass-roots

beginnings.

My work explores the investigation into the poetics of architecture and everyday life. The makeup, its exterior, and its form, which suggest to me, contemporariness. I personify my images as constructs that are the embodiment of critical social and political histories that seemed to be unwritten due to certain external forces.


I worked with Nii Obodai of Nuku Studios, and Teresa Meka, an artist-photographer, in documenting the permanent collection of the Dei Center. I was part of a project named “Ghana inside out; outside in”, where I collaborated with a number of design students from the Kolding School of Design to find answers to some common problems Ghana and Holland share. 

I was part of a documentary photographic workshop with Gael Turine from Agence Vu (France) organized by the Institut Francais. I was selected as part of the top ten finalists to represent Ghana in the Barclays L’Atelier competition in Johannesburg, South Africa. I participated in “The Gown must go to Town” exhibition held in Accra, Ghana. 

I was selected to be part of an artist portfolio review organized by 89plus which was held at the Nubuke Foundation, Accra, Ghana. I was selected as part of the top ten finalists for the 2016 Kuenyehia Prize for Contemporary Ghanaian Art