Voodoonville, Haiti 2010

• Prize
• Photographer
  Paolo Marchetti, Italy
• Date of Photograph
  online
• Website
  http://www.paolomarchetti.org

Haiti, Port-au-Prince 2010, at the end of Cite Soleil (heart PAP) is one of the most
Haiti's largest landfill, on which, by several decades, the slum, named Waff
Jeremy is born, the final frontier of human Haitian people. There is no
reliable census to calculate the exactnumber of the inhabitants of Waff, but the
logistical support of many NGOs, in recent years, have counted
hundreds of thousands people living in precarious style-life
and without any support from the state.
The desperation and the great faith of this people take up the value of life,
final bulwark in support of suchsuffering.
The Voodoo is a religion with African American characters syncretic and highly esoteric, one of the oldest in the world. The current religion vuduista combines elements taken from the bustling traditional African practiced before colonialism, with concepts drawn from Catholicism. Today, the Voodoo is practiced by about sixty million people around the world.
In Haiti it is practiced by almost the entire population while the Catholic religion.The Voodoo has gone through three centuries of persecution and misinformation and has been strongly discredited, were also popular (probably even consciously) many rumors and misinformation that have promoted a general vision very distorted.

• Biography
  Paolo Marchetti was born in Italy, he has been working for eleven years in the Italian cinema and commercial industry as camera assistant, favoring the italian and foreigners cinematographers and began his photographic studies soon with particolar attention to political and anthropology issues. He attends several workshops with authoritative photojournalists, meeting frequently many educational initiatives in his country Paolo currently lives in Italy in the city of Rome and works as a freelance personal projects. In the last years he told stories far from home, creating reports in Brazil, Cuba, Europe, India, USA, Haiti, central Africa, central America realizing personal projects or collaborating with humanitarian organizations, but its long-term project, (main ongoing project), realizing it at home, in his country for three years now: The extreme right in Italy.