Facing our history is a photo exhibition and community conversation project based on the photographs of award-winning photojournalist Daniel Morel.
For over 20 years, Morel documented his native country, capturing culture, history and people. No photojournalist has covered as many presidents and coups d’état, ceremonies and pilgrimages, demonstrations and massacres, hurricanes and harvests.
Seen on front pages all over the world, Morel’s photos were rarely seen in Haiti by the people he so thoughtfully documented for two decades. When they appeared in newspapers or on web pages, they may have momentarily shocked or drawn empathy from readers and viewers across the planet, but Morel always wondered – What if Haitians in Haiti and abroad were given a chance to see them in a different context? Could these photo documents inspire the kind of reflection and dialogue he and many others feel is crucial to the future of that country?
Taking inspiration from the participatory discussion techniques promoted by Limyè Lavi-Beyond Borders and Circles of Change, Morel and his partner at Wozo Productions, Jane Regan, teamed up with Circle’s John Engle and others to design traveling photo exhibitions. Facing our history hopes to get Haitians, Haitian-Americans and others from post-colonial countries to see themselves and their history in a new way.
A boy cries over his brother, shot by UN peacekeepers during a shoot-out with gang members in the capital, on Apr. 15, 2005, at the same moment that members of the UN Security Council were meeting with politicians just a few miles away at a swank Pétion-ville, hotel. (© Daniel Morel/Wozo Productions)
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