Vital Rituals of the Afro-Cuban Underground

In recent years the Italian artist Nicola Lo Calzo has documented members of the African diaspora in such places as Louisiana, Haiti, and the archipelago of Guadeloupe. Writing last year in The New Yorker about his recent series from Suriname and French Guiana, Hilton Als noted that Lo Calzo’s images are concerned not so much with the look of these communities as with the legacies embedded within them: “Subjugation, slavery, survival . . . All those disappeared bodies brought back to life by their living and breathing descendants.”