Laura Heyman

Photographer
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Location: New York State
Nationality: American
Biography:       My recent photographic work uses the studio portrait to explore embedded hierarchies between photographers, subjects and viewers.  Performance is of course inherent to the medium of photography; any individual posing for... MORE
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Copyright Laura Heyman 2024
Updated Dec 2014
Topics Black and White, Documentary, Essays, Photography, Port-au-Prince, Portraiture


Don't Move Again is an ongoing series of formal portraits made with an 8x10 analogue camera in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The project started in 2009 as part of the Ghetto Biennale and continued from there. Along with Haitian citizens from all walks of life, I'm photographing various communities and locations in the city tied to reconstruction and development; volunteers, missionaries, NGO employees, United Nations staff, business investors. The collected images build upon each other to form a portrait of the city, updating August Sander's People Of The 20th Century for the age of globalization.

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