Taking a Bit of Carnival Home

You didn’t think we were going to leave Carnival without picking up some of those awesome masks, did you?! On our way out of the city, Jillian and I picked up some masks to commemorate our Carnival experience, and judging by the two, we clearly had different experiences: We got Jillian’s in a little shop [...]

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Caught in the Act

As I mentioned before, while taking pictures of Carnival in Jacmel, one of the Lanse Kod, or “The Rope Throwers”, who take sugar cane syrup mixed with charcoal and cover their bodies in it, got me in the face while I was traversing the rows of paper mache masks during the parade.  Well, a photographer [...]

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Haiti Carnival 2011!!! (Jacmel)

This weekend Jillian, Ben, Alexis and I traveled down to the southern coastal town of Jacmel to see what this whole Carnival thing was all about, and it was pretty amazing.  Hundreds of thousands of people were there to see what had to be thousands of hand made paper mache masks in one of the [...]

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Haiti Gears Up for Kanaval

For the past month, on Sunday nights, thousands of Haitians have been taking to the streets to celebrate Kanaval.  The yearly festival is marked by RaRa bands, floats, costumes and parades, and will culminate in a massive celebration in Jacmel on the weekend of February 26th, and another in PAP the following weekend. David and [...]

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