Philip Kwame Apagya was born in sekondi (ghana) in 1958, after a period of apprenticeship in his father's photo studio (a former crime-scene photographer), he worked as a travelling photographer for a while in the sassandra region (ivory coast), following the colour revolution in the late 1980s. after having graduated in photojournalism at the ghana institute of journalism in accra, he opened then his own studio (studio PK's normal photo studio) in shama (ghana), in 1982.