honorable mention
Patrick Desgraupes france
title
Voodoo, the World of the Invisible
In the African tradition, Voodoo is about rites mixing praying songs and dances to connect with the deities and spirits of the ancestors.
Voodoo refers to all the gods or invisible forces whose men try to reconcile power or benevolence.
It is the affirmation of a supernatural world, a cult to the spirit of the World of the Invisible. At each opening, the priest voodoo asks the help of the spirit of Papa Legba to open the doors of both worlds.
French artist Brice Kapel, songwriter, interprets his dual cultural identity. If he arrived in France at the age of 7, he was born in Togo, in the village of Porto Seguro. This village was in the 19th century one of the major spots of slave traffic leaving for the Americas, on the "coast of slaves". This series of photographs allows Brice, the body coated with the earth of his ancestors, to reconnect with his origins, paying tribute to MAWU the supreme creator of the world, and to Voodoo deities such as trees, earth and sky, water and fire.
He currently lives and works in France.
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entry description
It was in Togo and Benin that Voodoo was born, but from the 17th century, enslaved blacks spread voodoo worship in America and the Caribbean. For historians, the immense suffering of slaves deported to America is undoubtedly at the origin of the transformation of Voodoo on the American continent, towards practices more related to witchcraft or Satanism.In the African tradition, Voodoo is about rites mixing praying songs and dances to connect with the deities and spirits of the ancestors.
Voodoo refers to all the gods or invisible forces whose men try to reconcile power or benevolence.
It is the affirmation of a supernatural world, a cult to the spirit of the World of the Invisible. At each opening, the priest voodoo asks the help of the spirit of Papa Legba to open the doors of both worlds.
French artist Brice Kapel, songwriter, interprets his dual cultural identity. If he arrived in France at the age of 7, he was born in Togo, in the village of Porto Seguro. This village was in the 19th century one of the major spots of slave traffic leaving for the Americas, on the "coast of slaves". This series of photographs allows Brice, the body coated with the earth of his ancestors, to reconnect with his origins, paying tribute to MAWU the supreme creator of the world, and to Voodoo deities such as trees, earth and sky, water and fire.
about the photographer
Patrick Desgraupes is a French photographer. He has trained on the job in different Parisian studios and in labs, in which he acquired an understanding of light, one of the strong traits of his current works. He made photographs of portrait, fashion, decoration, architecture and still life. His work has been published since 2004 at Editions de la Martinière (his book on the National Parks of France gets the second place at the National Tourism Award in 2010 in Paris), in numerous magazines and brochures. He has become a recognized landscape specialist in the 4x5 inches large format camera, and his work has been published in the USA and in seven European countries. He has made numerous exhibitions in Iceland, Belgium, France for the National Parks of France and the Ministry of Ecology, in Slovenia, on the island of Reunion and in Guadeloupe. His photographs testify to his passion for light.He currently lives and works in France.
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