Exhibitions, Publications & Digital Resources

Background Imagery - Accra, Railway Station Late 1950s - A rare view of the railway station, without the frantic crowd.

Selected Exhibitions of Willis Bell's Work

Mmofra Foundation and the Goethe-Institut Ghana. 2009. Ghana through the Lens : A Photo Journey by Willis Bell. Nubuke Foundation, Accra, Ghana.

Mmofra Foundation and Friends of Mmofra. 2024. Playtime: Then and Now. Riverfront Park, Spokane, USA.

Selected Publications

Publications in Collaboration with Willis Bell

Amicchia, Daniel Attoumo, Eric Don Arthur, Willis E. Bell, Eileen Perrier, and Francis Provençal. 1999. "Ghana, Photographie." Revue Noire.

Bell, Willis E., and Efua Theodora Sutherland. 1961. The Roadmakers. Accra, Ghana: Information Services.

Opoku, A. M., and Willis E. Bell. 1965. African Dances: A Ghanaian Profile; Pictorial Excerpts from Concerts of Ghanaian Dances. African Documents: R. 133, 6. Accra, Ghana: Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana.

Orientation to Ghana Committee, Janice Nesbitt, and Willis E. Bell. 1969. Ghana Welcomes You. Accra, Ghana: Orientation to Ghana Committee.

Sutherland, Efua Theodora, and Willis E. Bell. 1962. Playtime in Africa. 1st ed. New York: Atheneum.

________. 1968. Vulture! Vulture! Accra, Ghana: Ghana Publishing House.

Works that Reference Willis Bell or Include Bell's Photographs

"A Library for Bolgatanga". 1968. Architectural Forum (March): 67-69.

Ankomah Graham, Kobby. 2023. "How Archives Illuminate the History and Culture of Ghana." Aperture 252 (September).

Barnor, James, Damarice Amao, Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, and Bristol Photo Festival Bristol, England. 2021. The Roadmaker. [Paris], [Bristol]: Maison CF; RRB Photobooks.

Bremer, Alf and Esi Sutherland-Addy. 2009. Ghana Through the Lens: A Photo Journey by Willis Bell. Berlin: Propolis-Verlag.

Goldstein, Brian D. 2026. If Architecture Were for People: The Life and Work of J. Max Bond Jr. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

Kalitsi, E. A. K. 1963. "African Metamorphosis: Symbols & Wisdom." The Unesco Courier, 7-8 (July): 44-49.

Laryea, Korklu A. 2012. "Research Pathways in African Studies: An Interpretation of Selected Photographs Depicting Traditional Economic Activities in the Willis Eugene Bell Photo Archive." African Research & Documentation 118: 51-68.

Digital Repositories of Photographs by Willis Bell

"The Willis Bell Photographic Print Archive." UCLA Digital Print Collection. Modern Endangered Archives Program. University of California, Los Angeles.