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NOCTAMBULES: QUEER NIGHTLIFE IN PORT-AU-PRINCE<\/div>\n
Josu\u00e9 Azor, Haiti<\/div>\n

In a Haitian context, the French noun noctambule<\/i> evokes a night-dweller whose perceived clandestine activities best flourish away from the brightness and tumult of daylight. Josu\u00e9 Azor\u2019s photographic essay Noctambules<\/i> offers viewers a glimpse into the quieter yet energetic practices of those people who choose to evade the critical gaze of day-walkers and forge intimate and sustaining connections when the sun sets.<\/p>\n

Excerpted from a larger series, the photographs in this project display what is powerfully queer and effectively resistant about encounters between bodies in devalued spaces, embraced by the night.<\/p>\n

We invite viewers not only to reflect on these documented performances as a testament to the artful survival of queer nocturnal worlds, but also to register their own position and the position of the photographer as we appreciate moments frozen in the shadowed private lives of urban Haitians.<\/p>\n

JOSU\u00c9 AZOR<\/div>\n
(1986) Puerto Pr\u00edncipe, Haiti<\/div>\n

Working in the areas of documentary, social, and artistic photography, Josu\u00e9 Azor began to travel around Haiti in 2008, combining his passion for photography \u2014a discipline in which he is self-taught\u2014 with his interest in the religious practices of his country, with a particular focus on Vodou, which he documented in the town of Gona\u00efves. Azor participated in the 2nd edition of the Changjiang International Photography and Video Biennial in 2017 and in the Rencontres Photographiques de Guyane (French Guiana) in 2014. In Noctambules<\/i>, he explores the nightlife of the LGBT community in Port-au-Prince, in the aim of giving this sector of society greater visibility. He is a member of Kolektif 2 dimansyon (K2D), a collective of young photojournalists and visual artists in Haiti.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":10,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-proyecto-en.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581,"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42\/revisions\/581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}