Nyani Quarmyne

Nyani is a self-taught photographer who refers to himself as a ‘hybridised African’ having been born in India to a Ghanaian father and Filipino mother and having lived in Kenya, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, Canada, Australia, the USA, Ghana and Germany in addition to the countries where his work and his travels have taken him.

Presently based in Düsseldorf, Germany, Nyani has undertaken assignments internationally for a wide variety of NGOs, corporate and editorial clients. Over the past couple of years his personal work has included tramadol addiction in West Africa, the global snakebite emergency, sickle cell disease, and an exploration of the lives of a small cloister of nuns in an abandoned valley in the Caucasus Mountains. Commissioned work has ranged from digital financial services in Madagascar, to relief efforts in Mauritania, to Internet access in Kyrgyzstan.

Nyani’s work has been exhibited in Australia, various European countries, North America and West Africa. He is a past winner of the European Union Prize at the Rencontres de Bamako Pan-African Photography Biennial, and a finalist for the Australian National Photographic Portrait Prize.