Guyana 2014 : Les expositions extérieures, place des Palmistes – The Eye of Photography

Guyana 2014 : Les expositions extérieures, place des Palmistes

Paolo Woods’ series PEPE is an inventory of T-shirts bearing various slogans. “Pèpè” is a reference to second-hand clothing from American thrift stores sold in the former slave market in Port-au-Prince. These funny, suggestive and sometimes inappropriate shirts are purchased out of necessity, and what they communicate is not always clear to the people who wear them. This approach is a comment on one aspect of the relationship between Haiti and the United States