VOODOONVILLE, Citè Soleil


  • Photographer
    Paolo Marchetti
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    2010

Haiti, Port-au-Prince 2010, at the end of Cite Soleil (heart PAP) is one of the most Haiti's largest landfill, on which, by several decades, the slum, named Waff Jeremy is born, the final frontier of human Haitian people. There is no reliable census to calculate the exactnumber of the inhabitants of Waff, but the logistical support of many NGOs, in recent years, have counted hundreds of thousands people living in precarious style-life and without any support from the state. The desperation and the great faith of this people take up the value of life, final bulwark in support of suchsuffering. The Voodoo is a religion with African American characters syncretic and highly esoteric, one of the oldest in the world. The current religion vuduista combines elements taken from the bustling traditional African practiced before colonialism, with concepts drawn from Catholicism. Today, the Voodoo is practiced by about sixty million people around the world. In Haiti it is practiced by almost the entire population while the Catholic religion.The Voodoo has gone through three centuries of persecution and misinformation and has been strongly discredited, were also popular (probably even consciously) many rumors and misinformation that have promoted a general vision very distorted. Contrary to what is commonly considered simply superstition and black magic, Voodoo is a religion for all purposes, with deep moral and social teaching, as well as a complex theology, which saw its birth and spread as a result of deportation blacks in the slave colonies, between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. To escape the persistent persecution by the church, religion Vuduista began, since 1800, to acquire as its Christian iconography masking the traditional gods with figures of saints and madonnas. The name by which the religion takes its name, Vodun, or vodu, denotes the mysterious spirit that permeates and fertilizes the cosmic matter, activating it and giving it life. In African languages that term literally means "sign of the deep."

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