Yvonne Osei’s Insidious is a series of semi-staged, semi-candid, photographs taken in Ghana addressing the presence of colonialism in post-colonial Sub-Saharan cultures. The “real and authentic” and the “unreal and unauthentic” intersect. By presenting fake “traditional” textiles, designer knock-offs and plastic-bags, these photographs present a global wealth, localized poverty and half-made liberation. Osei’s work is a critique of the way a culture moves from handmade materials to mass produced knock-offs that pollute and cripple the wealth of a vulnerable society.