1. HAITI : ABOUT DEATH
One of the most elaborate forms of architecture in Haiti is its tombs. Bodies are buried in graves above ground rather than in it, with colourful crypts ar grand as people can afford. In the countryside, especially in the South, people are buried on family land wherever possible, while in the cities, they are buried in formal cemeteries. Death is not hidden ; numerous advertisements for funerals are common on the roads. Vodou rituals are mixed with Christian ones.
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2. Grand Cimetière de Port-au-Prince (Port-au-Prince Cemetery)
This cemetery is almost a city in itself !

3. Entrance
‘I say that the grave that closes over the dead opens onto Heaven and that what we consider as the end is the Beginning’

4. Funeral services named ‘Bonne entente’ (‘Good deal’) in Rue de l’enterrement (‘Funeral Street’), near the entrance of the cemetery

6. Wrecked tomb of the dictator François Duvalier (wrecked after the collapse of his son’s rule in 1986)

7. Wrecked family shrine ot François Duvalier’s family

8. Barbancourt family shrine
Barbancourt family shrine (the Barbancourt owned the most famous rhum distillery in Haiti, created in 1862)

12. The church of the cemetery

19. A tree with Vodou ex votos (left)
A Vodou statue (right)

20. A spot for Vodou rituals

21. Every 1 & 2 November, ‘Fet Gede’,. the Vodou festival of the dead, is
Every 1 & 2 November, ‘Fet Gede’, the Vodou festival of the dead, is held in this cemetery.
‘Happy feast to all the dead’ Baron Samedi & his wife Maman Brigitte (Vodou ‘Iwas’)

22. Baron Samedi (Vodou guardian of the crossroads between life & death)

23. Maman Brigitte (Baron Samedi’s wife)

24. A Vodou spot

25. Memorial dedicated to the dead of the 2010 earthquake

26. Memorial dedicated to the dead of the 2010 earthquake

27. Along the roads

28. A funeral parlor named ‘Optimist’ (!) (Gros Morne, NW of Haiti)

29. A funeral parlor named ‘Resurrection’ (!) (Cap-Haïtien)

30. A funeral parlor (Saint-Marc)

31. Banners above the roads announcing funerals

32. A funeral parlor named ‘Shield of Faith’ (Gros Morne)

33. Death announcement (Jean-Rabel, NW coast)

34. Death announcement painted on wall (Limbé, NW coast)

35. Jacmel Cemetery

37. ‘Remember that you come from dust and will return to dust’

38. ‘I say that the grave that closes over the dead opens onto Heaven and that what we consider as the end is the Beginning’

40. Horace-Camille Desmoulins ‘s tomb (Horace-Camille, dead in 1825, was Camille Desmoulins’ s son ; Camille Desmoulins is well known for his actions during the French Revolution and was beheaded in 1794)

47. Across Haiti

48. Countryside cemetery : trekking between Seguin & Pic de la Selle

49. Countryside cemetery : trekking between Seguin & Pic de la Selle

50. Scattered tombs near the fortress Fort Ogé (SE of Haiti)

51. Countryside cemetery between Les Cayes & Citadelle des Platons

52. Countryside cemetery between Les Cayes & Citadelle des Platons

53. Scattered tombs near La Vallée (Southern HaIti)

54. Scattered tombs near Ducis (Southern Haiti)

55. Scattered tombs near Ducis (Southern Haiti)

56. Miragoâne cemetery

57. Saut d’Eau cemetery

58. Môle Saint Nicolas cemetery
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