Overview
- Photographer Kara McCurdy published a fresh batch of photos on November 20–21 that document Zohran Mamdani and Rama Duwaji’s low-key New York City civil ceremony earlier this year.
- The images show the couple riding packed subway lines on a rainy February morning, with Duwaji carrying a bouquet Mamdani picked up minutes before.
- Mamdani, now the mayor-elect of New York City, and Duwaji met on Hinge in 2021 and chose an intimate clerk’s-office wedding followed by celebrations in Dubai and Uganda.
- McCurdy has worked with Mamdani since 2019–2020 on campaign visuals, contextualizing her role in shaping the look and feel of the widely shared wedding photographs.
- On May 12, Mamdani announced the marriage on Instagram and addressed online attacks on his spouse, emphasizing that Duwaji is an artist with her own identity.