Port-au-Prince, Haiti - “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 under the control of the state and local residents, while around 80% of the surrounding area is dominated by heavily armed criminal groups. By documenting these small, closed-off spaces, I aim to offer a nuanced perspective on the reality of the Haitian capital and to illustrate the relationship between vulnerability and agency in a restrictive context, often rendered invisible in favor of gang figures such as the notorious “Barbecue.” These places, both threatened and alive, testify less to collapse than to the capacity of a people to resist, to create spaces of dignity and beauty where everything seems to conspire to erase them. With this work, I do not seek to freeze Haiti in the image of violence that clings to it, but rather to give shape to these tense territories that both confine and protect.