Carlos Idun-Tawiah's practice weaves the threads of identity, ritual, and place, turning everyday ceremonies into profound meditations on Black joy and communal transcendence.

His Sunday special series elevates ordinary gatherings into sacred tableaux, where light, gesture, and architecture converge to honor the spiritual weight of African life.

In this photograph a solitary graduate raises arms in jubilant surrender within a stone chapel, yellow hood ablaze against weathered brick and shadow. Fellow graduates frame this eternal passage in serene witness.

Stained glass diffuses prismatic light across vaulted arches; an ornate chandelier captures the glow, consecrating every aspiration. Idun-Tawiah transforms graduation into pilgrimage, the building a cathedral to achievement. Unrestrained, the central figure stretches toward a promised future, embodying authentic triumph amid communal solidarity. Here, education becomes grace, distilling family hopes, opportunity's heft, and crossing's joy into luminous poetry.