ARTISTS

dach&zephir

French-Caribbean designer duo doing an artist residency at Fountainhead and presenting an installation at UNTITLED Art Fair during Miami Art Week 2024.

dach&zephir

Graduates of the National School of Decorative Arts of Paris, Dimitri Zephir and Florian Dach founded their creative studio dach&zephir in 2016. Mixing fervor and poetry, their contemporary creations celebrate the creole cultural heritage from the French Caribbean while integrating other cultures, therefore echoing the thinking of Martinican poet Édouard Glissant on creolization. For the duo, History and personal stories are starting points in design, acknowledging that objects are mediums for our minds. Through historic textile collages, lamps incorporating indigenous plants or seeds, rugs woven in celebration of black hair, their productions aim at revealing to the world the historic and cultural specificities of Caribbean territories.

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VISUAL EPISTOLARY DIARIES

Five Caribbean women photographer presents their work in the ‘Visual Epistolary Diaries’ exhibition in partnership with La Station Culturelle and The TOUT-MONDE Art FOUNDATION on the occasion of the WOPHA Congress 2024.

ABWilson

ABWilson is a photographer with a keen eye for capturing hidden beauty. Her approach to photography is both intimate and expansive. First, she gets close to her subjects, exploring their details, and then steps back to take in the broader scene, always seeking out the unexpected. Guided by her background in Appreciative Inquiry, ABWilson constantly asks, “Where is the beauty here?” She finds that sometimes it’s immediately apparent, while other times, it requires patience, a shift in perspective, and a deeper look through the lens. As an artist, her goal is to invite the viewer into a dialogue with her images. She encourages you to pause, reflect, and ask, "What do I see?" Each photograph is an opportunity for personal interpretation and connection. Beyond creating art, ABWilson shares her process through mindfulness photography workshops, where she helps others discover the hidden beauty in their own surroundings, guiding them to capture what might be missed at first glance. Her work has been exhibited in Bermuda, Miami, and France. Explore her unique perspective at www.abwilsonphotography.com and join her in the search for unseen beauty.

Meredith Andrews

Contemporary portrait, travel and lifestyle photographer Meredith Andrews has shot for editorial, advertising, and private clients all over the world. Based in Bermuda, her work has been featured in dozens of international exhibitions such as the 2009 and 2019 Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize at National Portrait Gallery in London, UK, the Portrait of Humanity and OpenWalls Arles in 2020, the Copenhagen Photo Festival and a solo show at the Bermuda National Gallery in 2021, a silver winner of the Association of Photographers awards, the BJP International Photography Award, the Royal Photographic Society International exhibition and the PHOTO IS:REAL Festival all in 2022. Most recently Meredith’s work was exhibited at the Women Street Photographers exhibition in NYC. Andrews’ clients include: Conde Nast Traveler, The New York Times, Lonely Planet, New York Magazine, Travel & Leisure, AirBnB, Getty Images, JMcLaughlin, HERE magazine, Der Spiegel, Nylon Magazine, The Coveteur, Levis, BET, Delta Airlines, Easyjet, Amnesty International, The Financial Times, Bermuda Tourism Authority and Fortune magazine.

Nathyfa Michel

Nathyfa Michel was born in 1994 in Réunion Island, to a Guianese father and a French mother. Her childhood was shaped by movement and frequent trips to her homeland, which heightened her awareness of issues related to mixed heritage and diasporic trajectories. At 15, she began developing her craft as a self-taught photographer, initially capturing her intimate circles, then blending the personal with the political during her language studies, which took her to New Orleans. In 2019, she returned and settled in French Guiana. This homecoming led her to explore the power dynamics at play in photography, questioning themes of identity, place, and the social construction of the photographic gaze. Since 2022, she has been exploring the connections between resilience, spiritual syncretisms, and mixed identities, focusing on the body as a vessel for transmission, reproduction, but also healing and reinvention.

Nadia Huggins

Nadia Huggins is a self-taught visual artist who works primarily with photography. In 2011, Huggins co-founded the visual arts publication ARC Magazine. Her photography was awarded the Festival Caribéen de l'image du Mémorial ACTe Jury Prize in Guadeloupe in 2015, and has been exhibited regionally and internationally. Some of her more notable exhibitions have been: Coral & Ash, KJCC, NYU, NY, USA, 2023: Fragments of Epic Memory, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada, 2021: RE/SISTERS, The Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK, 2023: Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago, Museum of Latin American Art, California, USA, Jamaica Biennial, at the National Gallery in Kingston, Jamaica, 2017: Small Axe: Caribbean Queer Visualities in Belfast, U.K. in 2016 and Glasgow, U.K. in 2016:Fighting the Currents at Centro de La Imagen, Dominican Republic, 2016. She currently resides as a second-class citizen in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.

Adeline Rapon

Adeline Rapon is a French-Martinican photographer born in Paris in 1990. Her artistic journey is self-taught and multidisciplinary, with skills ranging from drawing, painting, sculpture, scenography, and photography, all of which she enriches through her readings and exhibition visits. During the 2020 lockdown, Adeline created a series of self-portraits mirrored with representations of Caribbean women, titled Fanm Fò. This work, exhibited at the Rencontres Photographiques du 10e in 2021, led her to pursue an artistic career focused on her identity questions as a mixed-race, lesbian woman. Having developed partnerships with brands for over ten years, she now focuses more on personality and documentary photography, while asserting her feminist, queer, and decolonial values and commitments. Through her contributions to three issues of the Martinican magazine Zist, she turned her attention fully to her island. In 2023, she exhibited a series in Martinique, Lien·s, featuring stories from the local LGBTQIA+ community. In September of the same year, she completed an artist residency at the Maison de l’Architecture Martinique, producing a documentary series on the city of Saint-Pierre, titled Saint-Pierre n’est pas une ruine. In a desire to refocus her perspective and continue her artistic journey, Adeline moved to Martinique at the beginning of 2024. She is the 2024-2025 laureate of the Fotokontré program at the Station Culturelle, benefiting from individual support and a creative residency. Her photographs, along with those of other laureates from different territories, will be exhibited during the international biennial of photography in French Guiana in 2025.

THE OPEN BOAT

Twenty-five contemporary artists from the Caribbean Mid-Atlantic are presenting works in ‘THE OPEN BOAT’ exhibition through our partner galleries during Miami Art Week 2023.

In addition, two artists have been invited to participate independently in a special project through their own studio representation.

Mirtho Linguet

After university studies in French Guiana, he studied at the MI21 photography school in Montreuil in 1993. In 1998, he moved to Zurich, Switzerland where he worked for fashion magazines (Edelweiss, Annabelle, GQ, Bolero, Joy, Vogue, FHM, Madame Figaro, Cosmopolitan, The A, ADDICT, Neo 2...) and for advertising agencies. In 1996, he won the Journées internationales de la photographie (JIP) in Arles and participated the following year in the Rencontres internationales de la photographie et de la mode in Hyères. After a one-month residency at Le Point Éphémère in Paris in 2010, he completed a three-month residency in early 2011 at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Art in Dijon.

Since 2006 Mirtho works and lives in French Guiana. With the photographic series from the project «ALCHIMIE», realized in 2009, he changes his approach in his work. His photography offers a vision that is more frank. He abandons the idea of the smooth image that he considers misleading. In some of his series, although taking the documentary form, his subjects are revealed in full light; the places, materials, bodies and postures remain raw, the faces are without shadow, nor artifices. He aims at preserving the asperities and roughness of his lens. Sometimes an element comes to question the environment in which it takes place, giving the impression of being one with the decor.

Today he continues to develop his projects and questions the concept of Universality and the so-called “humanity” of the question of meaning and their manifestations, their implications in the daily lives of men, which they actually produce, beyond words, labels and slogans.

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Edouard Duval-Carrié

Edouard Duval-Carrié was born in Port-au-Prince. His family emigrated to Puerto Rico while he was a child during the François Duvalier regime. Duval-Carrié studied at the Université de Montréal and McGill University in Canada before graduating with a Bachelor of Arts from Loyola College, Montréal in 1978. He later attended the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France, from 1988 to 1989. He resided in France for many years and currently lives in Miami, Florida. ``I didn't want to go back to Haiti because of the political turmoil there. I have two kids,`` he explains. Instead he resides among Miami's substantial Haitian immigrant population and maintains cultural ties to his homeland. His works have been exhibited in Europe and the Americas.

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