Haiti and New Orleans are vibrant places, formed by French, West African, and other cultures.  I try to capture their common heritage through my photography.  

I was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and raised on Africa Plantation, about 45 minutes northwest of New Orleans, on the west bank of the Mississippi River, in the small town of Modest. For me, Africa Plantation was a spiritual place that put me in touch with nature and stimulated my imagination.  As a young child, I would climb to the very top of Africa with my little brother.  Under the stars and moon, I would tell stories of how I was going to travel around the world.  At some point between the time we spent on Africa’s hot tin roof and my father’s teaching me how to use his Nikon FT2, I began to travel through the world of photography.

Years later, I decided to travel to Haiti after reading Gwendolyn Midlo Hall’s Africans in Colonial Louisiana.  This journey will be expanded in the near future with work from Senegal and France.