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Leah Gordon’s Voodoo Carnival

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A gallery exhibit in London currently features Leah Gordon’s Voodoo Carnival series, in which she documented the Kanaval event in Haiti. The pictures themselves are as stunning as they are haunting – rooted in religion, scarred by slavery. I’d like to go to the exhibit just to read some of the side stories that went along with these photos:

One man captured front-on in a very fetching off-the-shoulder lace number explains how his gender-bending interpretation of the Devil as a transvestite came to him in a vision when he was working on a sugar cane plantation in the Dominican republic.

Indeed.

sarah | 03/24/09 | photography

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