Where the Light Bends is a visual diary born from rupture—emerging out of rejection, grief, and displacement. This work does not seek resolution, nor redemption through the gaze of the viewer. It is, instead, a continuous investigation into survival, memory, and the politics of visibility.
Set in the Afro-Caribbean town of Cahuita, Costa Rica, the project traces the intimate landscapes of Black life—where the sea and jungle are not background, but living archives; where calypso is not nostalgia, but a sonic form of resistance. The people of this community have long resisted erasure through music, ritual, oral storytelling, and quiet acts of everyday beauty.
Each portrait in this work resists spectacle. These are not subjects. They are participants, co-authors, witnesses. The camera becomes a site of ritual—a negotiation between the seen and unseen, self and mirror, loss and light. The project takes its time. It lives in the in-between: between trauma and transformation, invisibility and reverence, fragility and defiance.