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I travel to live and live to travel. As a gypsy, I sojourn through a Haitian-American identity configured of hybrid languages, customs and traditions. My transcultural worldview has greatly influenced my life path as a woman, photographer, and educator. As a photo-anthro-journalist, I fuse my interests in travel and culture to explore both the spiritual and tangible worlds. My sojourns abroad have taken me to the Caribbean, Africa, South America and Europe to explore traditional cultures, urban migrations, and the African diaspora. Many of the photographic images that I produce offer visual insight into the lives of beautiful, ordinary and often misrepresented people. February 2006, I was selected as a Trude Lash Fellow, from the Fund for Social Change. The Trude Lash Fellowship offered significant funding to get Urban PhotoPoets, a project that gets youth and community members involved in using photography and poetry as tools for social change, as well artistic expression, up and running in Brooklyn, NY. I look forward to piloting the Urban PhotoPoets Project in other national & international communities. In September 2006 , I moved to London, England with my daughter to pursue a Masters in Photography & Urban Culture at Goldsmiths, University of London. Been a few places but home will always be Brooklyn.  

Love, light & laughter, Gigi