Ayjtj | Casta | Mas | Tchamba

This self-published series by Paris based Italian photographer Nicola Lo Calzo is a four book compilation exploring the effects of slavery in modern times. This series contains four books on four different locations, as described below: Ayjtj - "This series traces for the first time the multiple experiences related to key memories in Haiti, the descendants of revolutionaries, the Voodoo pantheon, the "Poles" affair, the Carnival in Jacmel, the "relics" of national heroes and the new forms of re-appropriation of the past, to the impressively popular initiative of the "Movement for the Success of the Image of the Independence Heroes". - NLC Softcover, 58pg. Color 12.5" x 9" Self-published 2013 Casta - Race, Memory, and Community in the United States - "The photographs seek to explore the complexities and contradictions linked to collective memory in the southern parts of the United States. The project examines how and why the communities re-appropriate the past, the thought process among