Photographer Peter DiCampo’s project, Life Without Lights began as a brief story idea while he was living & volunteering in rural Ghana.
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The residents of communities in Ghana live half of their lives in the dark, without electricity, from the time the sun sets at 6pm and rises at 6am. During that time DiCampo says, “I realised how deeply the lack of electricity affected the lives of my neighbours. It impeded their progress in the sectors of health, education, development, agriculture, gender equality and the list goes on.”
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Eventually Dicampo’s work evolved into a larger multimedia piece in Ghana, and then a global, long-term project based on the idea of energy poverty.
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There are many projects on his website from Ghana to Kurdistan – but there is a section of global portraits called Global flashlight Portraits lifewithoutlights.com that’s well worth viewing. You can buy a print HERE ©Peter DiCampo
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