Leah Gordon – Kanaval

Leah Gordon – KanavalLeagues away from the sequinned, sanitised, corporate sponsored carnivals found elsewhere in the Americas, the Madigra troupes of the Haitian port town of Jacmel enact and subvert myth, legends and the nations own histories, their improvisational costumes and surreal narratives a Vodou charged blend of folk memory, political satire and personal revelation. Here the Zl Maturin, satin clad devils in papier mch masks, hinged wooden wings clapping on

sprawling coastline

The book should go from hand to hand like a political manifesto

The objects themselves are reduced to abstracted

Looking at these vast unknowable entities – the ocean and the Internet – we sense their strangeness

photography is not enough on its own

Olmsted believed that

he captures the Opera as a living organism and casts a naturalistic and romantic eye on the institution

Unique silkscreen print edition also available

they take us into theirs

Originally published in 2016

and subsequent compulsion to index the marks on paper

embodied approach to photography through a series that explores the free-fall of life