Paul Stopforth

Mmádu
ụdịekere	nwoke
mba o sị	South Africa
Aha enyere	Paul
Ụbọchị ọmụmụ ya	1945
asụsụ ọ na-asụ, na-ede ma ọ bụ were na-ebinye aka	Bekee
Ọrụ ọ na-arụ	omenkà
onye were ọrụ	Harvard University
ebe agụmakwụkwọ	Royal College of Art

Paul Stopforth bụ onye na-ese ihe na South Africa nke bi na United States ugbu a. Gọọmentị ịkpa ókè agbụrụ gbochiri ọrụ ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị ya n'ala nna ya wee gaa United States n'afọ 1988. N'oge na-adịbeghị anya, ọ lara ezumike nká n'ọkwa ya dị ka onye nkuzi na Visual and Environmental Studies na Director of Undergraduate Studies na Mahadum Harvard, ebe ọ malitere ịkụzi n'afọ 1996. Ọ bụ onye na-eleta ngalaba na School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Stopforth gụrụ akwụkwọ na Johannesburg College of Art na Royal College of Art dị na London. Ọ na-arụ ọrụ ugboro ugboro n'ihe gbasara mgbasa ozi ngwakọta na akwụkwọ. Ọ bụ South African National Gallery chịkọtara ya kpamkpam n'afọ 1979.^[1]

N'afọ 1981 na 1983 Stopforth mere nnukwu ihe osise abụọ akpọrọ "Elegy" na "Interrogation Space #1-5" banyere Steve Biko, onye isi nke Black Consciousness Movement nke South Africa nwụrụ na 1977 site n'isi mgbe ọ nọ n'aka ndị uwe ojii. Mgbe ọnwụ Biko gasịrị, a na-ekesa foto nke onyinyo ozu ya n'ọtụtụ ebe, na-eme ka Biko ghara ịbụ mmadụ ma na-agbanwe ya ka ọ bụrụ arịa nke ndụ efu (n'iji okwu ahụ eme ihe, ahụ nke na-anọchite anya ọkwa ndụ dị ala na-abụghị nke mmepeanya, onye a napụrụ uru mmekọrịta mmadụ na ibe ya niile ma nwee ike igbu ya n'enweghị mmetụta). Karịsịa, ihe osise Stopforth "Elegy" na-eme ka Biko bụrụ onye nwụrụ n'ihi okwukwe ya maka mmegide ịkpa ókè agbụrụ.^[2]