Ghanaian movie poster artist Daniel Anum Jasper stands next to a hand-painted poster commissioned for a foreign client at his workshop in the Teshie area of Accra, Ghana. Photo: Reuters
With a flick of his brush, Ghanaian painter Daniel Anum Jasper armed actor Paul Newman with a pair of revolvers. Unfinished paintings of a bell-bottomed John Travolta and nunchuck-spinning Bruce Lee adorned the walls of his crammed Accra studio.
Jasper, a veteran movie poster designer, was finishing up one of the 1969 classic Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid, commissioned by a foreign collector who had reached out over Instagram.
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