Sunday Special
Carlos grew up in a Christian home in Accra, where Sundays, in his words, were "all we looked forward to during the week". In 2022 he recreated those Sundays in the series "Sunday Special": getting dressed for church, the prayers, the sermon, the choir, the organ, and then home, or lunch with family and friends.
The texts in today's slides come from the two essays in the Collectors Journal we published for his first Paris Photo, in 2025: one by Bill Shapiro, former editor-in-chief of LIFE, and one by Nathalie Herschdorfer, director of Photo Elysée, the photography museum in Lausanne. Herschdorfer wrote in French; the translations are ours.
The last photograph, "Many Reasons to Live Again", was used this year for the official poster of the Rencontres d'Arles. It was also shown in the exhibition "Ghana! Dreaming Independence 1957–1976", together with photographers who worked in Ghana in those years, such as James Barnor and Felicia Abban.
Tomorrow, the second part: the family at home after church.
In order of appearance: "Grace Flows Like a River, Accra, Ghana", 2022 · "Oh Grace, Accra, Ghana", 2022 · "Joy Comes in the Morning, Accra, Ghana", 2022 · "Amen I, Accra, Ghana", 2022 · "Amen II, Accra, Ghana", 2022 · "The Good Book, Accra, Ghana", 2022 · "The Gospel, Accra, Ghana", 2022 · "One Thousand Hallelujahs, One Thousand More, Accra, Ghana", 2022 · "Mr Bilson, Play On, Accra, Ghana", 2022 · "Many Reasons to Live Again, Accra, Ghana", 2022.
The works in the slides are available. The gallery is open, as always, by appointment.
