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Contact Sheet 158 – Pa Bouje Ankò: Don't Move Again

Contact Sheet 158 – Pa Bouje Ankò: Don't Move Again

Softcover (Paperback); high-quality periodical format Softcover English 48 pages 23.5 x 29.0 cm 350 g

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Contact Sheet 158 features Laura Heyman’s profound project “Pa Bouje Ankò: Don’t Move Again,” a series of black-and-white portraits produced in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Working in a makeshift outdoor studio, Heyman utilized a large-format 8×10 view camera to create formal, highly detailed images of local residents, NGO workers, and UN officials. The title, “Pa Bouje Ankò,” is the Haitian Creole command for “Don’t move again,” a phrase Heyman frequently used to ensure the stillness required for long exposures. The work moves beyond mere disaster reportage, instead focusing on the complex social landscape of a city in the midst of recovery and the performative relationship between the subject and the photographer. Through these 26 plates, Heyman examines the intersection of aid, occupation, and local resilience.

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