About the Exhibition
Bèl Dezòd
Today We live in a Beautiful Mess, I am not here to clean it up. I am here to capture it.
Now more than ever, photography exists as a mode of documentation. The advent of the camera phone means that everybody is a photographer, and history is being recorded at an unprecedented, relentless rate. But true artistry remains a rarity. The eye of a photographer does not just capture reality—it manipulates angles to peel back layers, finding a deeper, heavier meaning within what the naked eye misses. For me, the camera is a tool. This exhibit is a menagerie of what I have been able to seize through its lens.
Bèl Dezòd is the radical defiance of institutional order. It is the understanding that truth is rarely neat, and that safety is a luxury of the blind. It is more interested in the raw, chaotic reality of our survival than the polished comfort of the system.
We are not trying to be interesting. We are just being raw. Those who aren't happy, get lost.
“Se pa entèresant n’ap fè, se sovaj nou sovaj. Sa k pa kontan, anbake.”
Purchasing a Print
To purchase a print from the exhibition, please use this link. Each purchase will have full proceeds donated to the Haitian American Museum of Chicago (HAMOC) and the Immigrant Family Services Institute (IFSI)