Paolo Woods

In his lunch talk, Paolo Woods will speak about what it means to get the work back to where it is originated. For more than three years photographer Paolo Woods has been living in Les Cayes, a city in the south of Haiti. He developed a project (with the Swiss journalist Arnaud Robert): STATE, which questions the notion of State in Haitian society. The photos say more about order than chaos, more about comedy than tragedy: visions of rich Haitians, the slow emergence of a middle class, the development of substitutes for the state. STATE premiered at the Musée de l’Élysée in Lausanne (CH), which produced the exhibition, and was shown at Photoville in Brooklyn. In April 2014 STATE arrived in Port-au-Prince and became LETA (in Creole), placed on the outside walls of the University of Haiti's School of Ethnology in Port-au-Prince: outdoors and accessible to all. According to bringing the work home, Woods will also talk about his former projects Walk in my eyes and Chinafrica.