Hero, Father, Friend

«After losing my father at eighteen, I have very few shots left of us together. What remains are distant memories and formal portraits in the studio, images that seem disconnected from our daily relationship. Photography wasn’t that accessible at the time, and the archive I wish I had simply doesn’t exist. Hero, Father, Friend was born as a response to this absence. It reconstructs the emotional and visual moments I’ve longed for, filling in the gaps with both real and imagined scenes». The words of Carlos Idun-Tawiah, a Ghanaian photographer and filmmaker, describe the soul of the Hero, Father, Friend project, documented in this book in the form of an intimate and intense diary, which delves into memory to grieve through a search for identity and the reconstruction of a very solid father-son bond.