Link: Gael’s latest project, Voodoo, took him to Benin, Haiti and the USA to photograph the rituals and ceremonies of the Voodoo cult. The images from his journey have culminated in a book published by Lannoo titled simply “Voodoo”, as well as an exhibition which opened at the Kunsthal Rotterdam, and is on tour until 2012.
[contentcards url=”http://blog.leica-camera.com/2017/12/11/en-bas-la-ville/”] En Bas la Ville – The Leica Camera Blog The Caribbean state of Haiti was ravaged by an earthquake in 2010, which left 230 000 people dead and another 1.8 million homeless. Rampant corruption and political chaos coupled with extreme poverty and a cholera outbreak following the quake, have seen little improve over…
India’s “Fence of Shame” via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/photobooth/2014/01/gael-turine-india-border-wall.html#slide_ss_0=1 A wall separates much of India and Bangladesh, which share a border that spans more than two thousand five hundred miles. Beginning in 1993, India built the wall to discourage illegal immigration; recently, the photojournalist Gaël Turine spent two years documenting its socioeconomic repercussions
