The Roadmaker is the second RRB title with Ghanaian photographer James Barnor, following Stories: Pictures from the Archive, and gathers a focused selection of Barnor's images of work and labour in Ghana from the years around independence. The title image—an iconic portrait of a roadworker breaking stones by hand under the sun—has become one of Barnor's most reproduced photographs; the book opens it out into a larger project on the people who built, maintained and inhabited the new infrastructure of post-colonial Ghana: roads, market stalls, train lines, town centres, port edges, civil-service offices. As with the rest of Barnor's archive, the work moves between assignment, press commission and personal initiative; the photographs are made with the dignity and care that characterised his studio work in Accra and his later press and fashion work in London. The Roadmaker is at once a single-image study and a small monograph, holding the famous picture in its proper context and quietly enlarging it.