Vodou Brooklyn

Stephanie Keith met a Vodou priest at a Buddhist interfaith event in New York. He invited her to photograph and experience the religious world of his Haitian culture. Ten ceremonies later, she offers her images and reflections on these late-night rituals.

Produced by Trent Gilliss + Mitch Hanley.

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• vodou
• voodoo
• stephanie keith
• haiti
• flatlands
• ogou
• brooklyn
• legba

[facexgrind]

Vodou is a beautiful religion. Christians should really ease up with the judging. I practice Buddhism myself and I deal with the same old christian negativity. Almost every violent war in the past 1000 years has been because christians are close minded and have to be right. The bible says Thou Shall Not Kill not Thou Shall Not Kill unless it's "in the name of God."

[rojurand]

@vmwye 100 agree with you! Christianity is a shameful religion roots of so many way of oppression and discrimination. I love Africa and everything that comes with it. Africa is the truth and sometimes it is so hard to look at it face to face, that is the reason why so many people are so afraid of everything that comes from the Black continent, Africa is the World root of everything including humanity itself

[CrowdPleeza]

I ment slave masters (misspelling) :)

[CrowdPleeza]

Cont:

Had U.S blacks had French slavemasters then maybe more African culture would be prevelant among U.S Blacks. So bascially the main difference between U.S Blacks and those in Haiti and Cuba was that each group had different slavemasters who had different ways of viewing their slaves culture.

[CrowdPleeza]

Be careful dissing Vodou. The reason a religion like Vodou didn't develop in the U.S among American blacks and did in countries like Haiti & Cuba comes down to who our slavemasters were. Our English protestant slavemasters in the U.S put a bigger focus on banning African culture. But the Catholic Spanish,French and Portuguese slavemasters in the caribbean & Latin America were less hostile to African culture so more African culture was preserved in those countries.

[ResurrectingYourSpir]

@LeviteQueen That is why Haiti and New Orleans are suffering. I SUFFER A WITCH NOT TO LIVE SAID THE LORD YOUR MAKER. YOU PEOPLE ARE SPIRITUAL MURDURERS. HUMAN SACRIFICE IS MURDER!!!

[ResurrectingYourSpir]

You got it wrong only five tribes in Africa practiced till this day Voodoo, don't get us all mixedup only three tribes actually practiced Cannabolism. Before slavery the tribes of Africa was at least (70,000) seventy thousand. Why till this day African the majority of African tribes are against Voodoo and in Africa it is punishable by law to perform human sacrifice you will received the death penalty in Nigeria, and none of the 700 tribes practice voodoo. The people in Africa are against it.

[anonymusba]

Jah is love.

[WonderWomanFan4life]

i would love to go to this

[StyleYaa]

@LeviteQueen so r u re writing history?

[LeviteQueen]

@vmwye Africans were never in slave The hebrews were in slave, and the hebrew were black people.AFrican And blacks are two different races. If as black here now are africans why do they hate blacks so much.and if we blacks. why didn't did the africans did not come and help us.

The truth is the African & the Arabs sold the blacks to the european. & when christ walk this earth he walk with preaching his father words the truth . Who told the people they were christian?

[LaidiFocus]

@vmwye WELL SAID!!! NOTICE THIS WHITE WOMEN IS BROADCASTING AS IF SHE IS WATCHING THE ZOO OR SOMETHING....SMH!!!.... GHEDE SHOULDA SHOULDA JUMP IN HER ASS... LOL