Olaoluwa Olowu Documents Women's Boxing in Ghana
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Photojournalist Olaoluwa Olowu is documenting women boxers in Accra, Ghana, with a project that moves beyond the ring to engage the sport's street-level visual culture. A key image pairs amateur boxer Elizabeth Boakye with a wall mural of a male boxer in the Abossey Okai neighbourhood, a deliberate act of archival inclusion in a public space that has historically represented only men.
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