Mwen Se Yon Balon (2016)
A series about birthing a hybrid identity: being Haitian and Syrian.
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Manman DouDou (2016)
Manman Doudou is a study of my mother in the lens of self-liberation and cultural freedom. The photo-series follows my mother as she makes her way to a white chair with a veil in front of a piece of velvet fabric. The velvet represents the struggles she had to go through to assert her identity as a Haitian-Syrian, an often times invalid identity in the Haitian community. The veil represents her release, some sort of validation that she will take ownership of herself at the end.
“Manman Doudou, papa cheri, kite m’ viv san w’ pas poze m’ kesyon sou egzistans mwen,” she would sing to me at night. It translates to: “Mother my love, father my dear, let me live without questioning my being.”
