Alphonso Lisk-Carew Explained

Alphonso Lisk-Carew
Birth Name:	Alphonso Silvester Lisk-Carew
Birth Date:	1887
Nationality:	Sierra Leonean
Field:	Photography

Alphonso Sylvester Lisk-Carew (1887–1969) was a Sierra Leone Creole photographer, active from around 1905, to 1920 to 1925.

Life and work

Alphonso Lisk-Carew founded his business in 1905. His brother Arthur was his assistant. Lisk-Carew advertised as Photographers, importers of photographic materials, stationery, toys, fancy goods, etc., 3 East Brook Lane and 30, corner of Westmoreland and Gloucester Streets Freetown, Sierra Leone.^[1] The brothers made photographic trips into the interior of Sierra Leone and also to the Gambia circa 1912. The Lisk-Carew brothers were appointed photographers for the visit of the Duke of Connaught in 1910.^[2]

Publications

Publications by Lisk-Carew

• Souvenir album of Freetown. Freetown, 1910?. by Alphonso and Arthur Lisk-Carew.

Publications about Lisk-Carew

• Vera Viditz-Ward: "Photography in Sierra Leone, 1850–1918". In: Africa (1987), 57:4, p. 510–518
• Sierra Leone, 1787–1987. Two Centuries of Intellectual Life. Manchester, 1987. (p. 514–516.) (=Repr. of Africa, 57: 4)

External links

• The Sierra Leone Web
• Ross Archive of African Images

Notes and References

1. Web site: Lisk-Carew Brothers . Cambridge University Library . 25 June 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304050831/http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/rcs_photographers/entry.php?id=302 . 4 March 2016 . dead .
2. Macmillan, Allister ed.: The Red Book of West Africa. Historical and Descriptive, Commercial and Industrial Facts, Figures, and Resources. London, W.H. and L. Collingridge, 1920.