Kanaval Leah Gordon
Leagues 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 nation’s own histories, their improvisational costumes and surreal narratives a Vodou-charged blend of folk memory, political satire and personal revelation.
The photographer, film-maker, curator and writer Leah Gordon has been photographing Jacmel Carnival and recording oral histories with its participants since 1995. Her attraction to Haiti is the culmination of a love of grassroots religious, class and folk histories that began in the UK in the 1980s, and a commitment to celebrating the proliferation of informal economies.
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