Category: Haiti: the third heaven
The Third Heaven Book
First produced in 2012, a non-editioned, hand printed and built, binding of this work is now available at USD 5000 each. It comes in a clamshell box, containing a double concertina (leporello) binding. Fully extended, the binding stretches for 145ft (44m). Closed dimensions are 10″ x 15.5″ x 3″. The double leporello allows an image sequence to […]
Third Heaven at FFF
Above, top to bottom: 1st, 2nd, 3rd iterations of proposed wall arrangement of images for FFF Gallery, Frankfurt, part of RAY2018, May-September 2018. Minor White once said that sequencing photographs for book or exhibition was like being in the middle of a storm. He considered the simile not as a metaphor for chaos but for […]
RAY 2018
I am thrilled to have just been invited to be part of RAY 2018 Triennal in Germany with my series “The Third Heaven” and other works related to the festival’s theme, ‘Extreme’. The work will be shown at the Fotografie Forum Frankfurt from May to September, 2018, and I will also be giving a talk […]
Boys and Girls
Boys’ toilet. School at Zanmi Lasante, Cange, Haiti. 2009 School break, a few minutes before lunchtime. Canon 5D MKII, EF 35mm 1.4L USM lens, post processed in Lightroom
The same and not the same
Zanmi Lasante, Cange, Haiti. 2009 Lake Cheston, Sewanee, TN. October 23, 2013 The fear of infinity, or ultimately, a genetic incapacity to comprehend the infinite, probably leads us to create god. At the same time, the capacity to be pluralistic, to be ‘fuzzy’ may ultimately help us evolve to a point where the infinite is […]
Still Life with Sleeper
3:28 PM. Waiting at Outpatient Clinic, Zanmi Lasante, Cange, Haiti. 2009. Time, conditioned by waiting. Or rather, there will always be a wait. Here, in the courtyard of Zanmi Lasante hospital’s outpatient clinic, people wait, for hours, days. A pair of slippers, a bed sheet serving multiple functions (for now, pajamas), and the concrete bench. […]