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Corentin Fohlen
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SUEURS & TREMBLEMENTS (extrait 3/3) 🇭🇹📷🏝️ À l’occasion de Visa pour l’Image, je publie ici un 3eme extrait de mon travail documentaire en HAÏTI. 14 ans de travail (excepté 2020-2021, Covid oblige) pour tenter d’expliquer par l’Histoire comment et pourquoi la violence est constitutive de la nation haïtienne. À travers ce récit photodocumentaire, j'explore la manière dont la violence systémique a construit le pays, façonné les paysages, exploité les humains via une perpétuelle ingérence et comment le passé déstabilise encore le présent, rendant l'avenir incertain. (Texte complet et legendes dans la bio insta) - SWEATS & TREMBLING Through this photodocumentary story, I explore the way in which systemic violence has built the country, shaped the landscapes, exploited humans and how the past still destabilizes the present, making the future uncertain. Haiti has always been at the center of political and economic issues: from the arrival of Christopher Columbus who came to exploit the natives for gold, to the period of piracy in the West Indies, then through the exploitation of black slaves who came of Africa for the harvest of sugar and coffee, until the liberation of slaves by a violent revolution... Since then, the European colonial powers have punished the affront that was made to them at the beginning of the 19th century: the Destructive foreign interference continued differently into the 21st century: supporting dictatorships, destabilizing and interfering in the country's political and economic affairs. Today the consequences are heavy for the Haitian people: corruption, destruction of the State, corruption of political and financial elites, moribund ultra-liberal economy, return of gangs, ecological crisis accentuated by deforestation and poor management of resources, degradation of historical heritage, etc. For this work, started in 2010 by going there every year, I immersed myself in the great history of this small country, to try to understand the workings of this violence. Explaining the roots of evil means better understanding the challenges ahead. #haiti @divergenceimages #haïti