Naomieh Jovin

Naomieh Jovin is a first-generation Haitian-American and a photographic artist. Her work utilizes appropriated photos from old family albums and incorporates her own photographs to illustrate resistance and intergenerational trauma, and how we carry the experiences of our past and our family’s past in our bodies.

There Is a Name for Women Like My Mother There Is a Name for Women Like My Mother

In the Haitian Creole language, “Gwo Fanm” means “Big Woman,” a woman who shoulders more than their fair share of burdens in this life.

Nov 17, 2020 / Photo Essay / Naomieh Jovin and Magnum Foundation

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