“Let’s return to the active voice, in tribute to life, to beauty.”

This project in Port-au-Prince focuses on pockets of territory still controlled by the state, even though roughly 80% of the surrounding area is held by heavily armed criminal groups. I aim to create a visual body of work that offers a nuanced vision of the reality of the Haitian capital. By documenting these small enclaves, I seek to illustrate the relationship between vulnerability and agency within a constrained context, one often overshadowed by the prominence of gang figures such as the well-known Barbecue.

These places, both threatened and alive, speak less of collapse than of a people’s capacity to resist, to carve out spaces of dignity and beauty where everything seems intent on erasing them. With this work, I am not seeking to freeze Haiti in the image of violence that clings to it, but rather to give form to these territories of tension that confine as much as they protect.