Kanaval


  • Photographer
    Leah Gordon
  • Prize
    Honorable Mention
  • Date of Photograph
    1995-2009
  • Technical Info
    All b+w film on Roleiicord

Each year, Jacmel, a coastal town in Southern Haiti, holds pre-Lenten Mardi Gras Festivities. Troupes of 'performers' act out mythological and political tales in a whorish theatre of the absurd that courses the streets unshackled by traditional parade. The characters partially betray their roots in medieval European carnival, but the masquerades are also a fusion of clandestine Vodou, ancestral memory, political satire and personal revelation. The project were shot over a period of 15 years and are published alongside oral histories of the participants in 'Kanaval: Vodou, Politics and Revolution on the Streets of Haiti' by Soul Jazz Publishing.

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