Abstract
The study of one of Cameroon’s first permanent photo studios, Photo George in Douala, reveals a story of migration, social mobility, intellectual ambition, and a special ability to adapt to a challenging economic, political and social situation. Tracing the studio founder’s family history back to the mid-19th century and considering Freetown’s multicultural Krio society with its longstanding interactions with photographic practices, not only tell how George E. Goethe turned his father’s intellectual and academic ambitions into a pursuit of visual perfection but more generally allow a glimpse into how photography as a profession spread along the West African coast.
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