Photo journalis?m or poverty porn?
Originally posted January 12th 2016 To be poor in Haiti: is that to be nothing and hungry, sick or dead in a photo album on a desk in New York, sold for $10 apiece? To be poor…
SALT: The Persistence of Blackness
Salt is essential to life and to preservation of food and has been mined in the Sahara for at least 2,500 years. When in the 7th century, Arabs began trading in Black slaves, they often used the same trade routes…
Spirit Desire and the Persistence of Blackness in Haitian Vodoun by Alexis De Veaux
Spirit Desire and the Persistence of Blackness in Haitian Vodoun SOKARI EKINE’S “SPIRIT DESIRE” Presentation by Alexis De Veaux(“Black Portraitures III,” Johannesburg, South Africa, Nov 17-19, 2016) The series of photographs “made” by the Nigerian British, self-described black queer…
Kouzin Mwen
In the introduction to an interview with Robert A Hill, “archeologist of Black memory‘ David Scott raises the importance of ‘memory, community and criticism’ as a form of linkage and the role of criticism as a way of remembering –…
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Photo Stories 2019: [3] Spirit Desire Interviews [Video]
The following video clips are from a 2016 conversation between myself and Kenyan Filmmaker, Kagendo Murungi. Kagendo transitioned on December 27th, 2017 at her home in Harlem, New York. RIP dear warrior sister! December 7th 1971 to December 27th 2017 …
The Desire of Spirits by Donald Molosi [Book Review]
The Desire of Spirits – a review of “Spirit Desire” photo book by Donald Molosi In Spirit Desire: Resistance, Imagination and Sacred Memories in Haitian Vodoun, Sokari Ekine – through simultaneously real and surreal photography – invites the viewer…
Spirit Desire: Photo Book 2018
For the past 18 months I have been working on producing my first photo book on Haitian Vodoun. I began my journey as a documentary photographer in 2013, six years after my initial encounter with Vodou. I doubt the…
Spirit Desire and the Persistence of Blackness in Haitian Vodoun
SOKARI EKINE’S “SPIRIT DESIRE” Presentation by Alexis De Veaux (“Black Portraitures III,” Johannesburg, South Africa, Nov 17-19, 2016) The series of photographs “made” by the Nigerian British, self-described black queer feminist photographer Sokari Ekine, beginning in 2013, in Haiti, usher…
Circles of Grace
“The nature of Vodou is a bit like jazz : a negotiated conversation improvised between ourselves and telluric forces, variations of a theme. We are free inside a bound framework.” Fragment of Bones Inside the “Circles of Grace” are the…
Dance of Salt – Ayiti
Lost imagination. This is the scariest thing that has happened to me, scarier than cancer. It’s death I thought I had lost my imagination then I found it because I read this and I breathed “One of the most powerful…
Streaming Anxiety
“Haiti occupies a particular place in the collective African memory and imagination. For Europe / whiteness Haiti has always been a place of horror, the irony being the horror was white not black, the savagery white not black” Maybe Me,…
@Kiskeácity – Legacy of 1804 in conversation w/ Alice Backer
My radio interview with Alice Backer of kiskeácity #LOF1804* This Friday at 9PM, join me as I welcome photographer Sokari Ekine of blacklooks.org to discuss her photo exhibit Spirit Desire inspired by her journey through Haiti and its spirituality as…
Trippin the Heartbeat
I told my lover You too are my lover You once embraced me With your trees That whisper together With humming birds A presence A sensual presence We made love everyday You wooed and flirted With me Drawing me in…
Photography futures – Whats happening for me
2016 is proving to be an exciting year for me and journey into photography. My GoFundMe campaign ‘Spirit Desire‘ has so far raised $3,600 in just over 6 weeks. However, I still need another $1,400 to reach my goal…
Haiti and Me
IWDs protests against working conditions at Caracol industrial complex. No, people are not happy with this exploitation of their labour. I decided to write a story about Haiti and me. Its an everyday living story not an ugly story…
Spiritual Breathing, 1.
I recently sat down with Kagendo Murungi to discuss my photo documentary on Haitian Vodoun “Spirit Desire: – Resistance, Imagination and Sacred Memories in Haitian Vodoun”. Kagendo filmed the conversation and we now have 5 clips which are part of my…
Photo journalism or poverty porn?
To be poor in Haiti: is that to be nothing and hungry, sick or dead in a photo album on a desk in New York, sold for $10 a piece? To be poor in Haiti: is that to be nothing…