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I have created a body of work, 'kanaval' from documenting Jacmel's carnival, Haiti, through photographic portraits and collecting oral histories since 1995.
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from a set called kanaval documenting haiti's jacmel carnival since 1995
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I have been working on and in Haiti since 1991 as a filmaker, photographer and curator. A book of my photographs and collected oral histories of Haiti's Jacmel carnival comes out in April 2010, pub. by Soul Jazz Publishing.
My photographic work is represented by Riflemaker, Soho, London.
Currently I am working alongside the Sculptors of Grand Rue, an artists' community in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. We held the 'Ghetto Biennale', the first arts festival located in a popular neighbourhood in the developing world. In December 2009, artists from around the globe came to Haiti, to make and exhibit work. Soon an archive of the event will appear on the website.
www.ghettobiennale.com
www.atis-rezistans.com
David Frohnapfel,
Schallum Pierre,
Racine Polycarpe,
Alex Farquharson,
Jean Claude Saintilus aka Kaliko,
Peter Anderson,
Roberto N Peyre,
Jūratė Jarulytė,
Max Reeves,
Fowler Museum at UCLA,
Nadine Zeidler,
Donna-Lee Bolden-Kerr
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Ebony G. Patterson,
shani mootoo,
Campbell,
Andre Eugene,
Oceana,
Clare Cameron,
Racine Polycarpe,
Two Haitian Artists Rewarded by Fondation Blachere,
Alice Yard,
maccha kasparian,
PUMAVision,
ghettoBIENNALE,
Hugo Moro,
GLOBAL VODOU: MAMA LOLA AND DONALD COSENTINO IN CONVERSATION,
Made in Haiti - Pop Up shop,
NOUVO REZISTANS,
Nottingham Contemporary,
Katherine Smith,
Vivian Chan,
Fowler Museum at UCLA,
Peter Anderson,
Donald Cosentino,
The Public Archive,
David Frohnapfel,
Patrick A. Polk,
Bouchotte Giscard
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The 1st Ghetto Biennale: Port au Prince
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Some quick notes made a few days after this remarkable event in Haiti
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Richard Fleming
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photographs and oral histories made and collected by leah gordon, essays…
'kanaval: vodou, politics & revolution on the streets of haiti' is out in june 2010 - do pre-order from soul jazz records &…
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PUMAVision
Participating in the 17th Biennale of Sydney, 2010
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Artist (Born 1970 in Dugny, Seine Saint-Denis, France) Lives and works in Berlin, Germany and Algiers, Algeria
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Event: Sydney,
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Distance , Diaspora and Aesthetics in African and Caribbean Art,…
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17th Biennale of Sydney Focus I:
Distance , Diaspora and Aesthetics in African and Caribbean Art
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Re: Leah Gordon
Interesting work.
Re: Leah Gordon
Dear Leah, Very interesting to read about what you have been doing with artists in Haiti. It is truly a remarkable place. I had a wonderful opportunity to visit Haiti in the summer of 2004 with a curatorial team from the Frost Museum at Florida International University. We visited some artists in the Grand Rue. I was hoping to write about that trip for The Miami Herald, since at that time I was working very hard as the Herald's art critic, but I never got to report on my trip for the paper. About a month after my trip there I became very ill and had to take a leave of absence from the paper. I went with curator Elizabeth Cerejido and her colleagues from FIU. She is an extremely talented curator who is now working at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. Many of us in the Miami art community miss her presence here very much. It has been my good fortune to meet talented artists in Miami from Haiti. Best regards, Elisa Turner, art critic in Miami