The third journey ended yesterday. The fourth is Carlos Idun-Tawiah's, and for me it is the purest form of a gallerist's work: to believe in a young artist, and then do everything it takes for the world to see him.
Carlos was born in Accra in 1997, the youngest of the five. He is a photographer and a filmmaker, and he builds his pictures from memory: the Sundays of a Christian childhood, boyhood, the father he lost at eighteen, his parents' love story as his mother told it.
On 27 March 2025 we had a video call. By the next day we had decided to go ahead, and on 2 April we signed. Two days later, when we announced him, we also said where his first exhibition with us would be: a solo show in Paris.
Then came the work nobody sees: the printing, the editions, the frames, the prices, and a Collectors Journal with essays by Nathalie Herschdorfer and Bill Shapiro. In November 2025 "I'll Be Here to Remind You" opened in the Grand Palais, at his first Paris Photo. His pictures went into important collections, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston among them, and in 2026 his work went on to the Mudec in Milan, to AIPAD in New York and to Arles.
There is nothing in this work quite like it: to see the pictures, to say yes in six days, and then to walk every step with him.
The film above is sixty photographs. It opens with ones that have already found an owner.
In order of appearance: "My Only Ticket Home, Accra, Ghana", 2024 · "Let the Little Children Come to Me, Accra, Ghana", 2022 · "Like Father, Like Son, Accra, Ghana", 2022 · "Dreams from my Father, Accra, Ghana", 2024 · "I'll Be Here to Remind You", Collectors Journal, 2025 · "I'll Be Here to Remind You", Paris Photo, Grand Palais, 2025 · "The Barbershop, Accra, Ghana", 2023 · "In the Field of Memory, Saint Louis, Senegal", 2024 · "Round Of Applause, Accra, Ghana", 2024.
The works in the slides are available. The gallery is open, as always, by appointment.
