Haitian Voudu ceremony in Brooklyn

A photo and audio essay by photographer Stephanie Keith from the American Public Media "Speaking of Faith" program. Voudu Brooklyn, from this larger special episode on that program about the living voudu faith of Haitian expatriates in NYC. Program audio is here in MP3 form. (thanks, Trent)

• [gman]

  Is it just me or is the juxtaposition of a woman in the throes of a 16th century semi-tribal religion and a guy in the background calmly rocking his 21st century bluetooth earpiece thick with irony?

  • [Jonathan Badger]

    The Loa live in cyberspace man, haven’t you read Gibson’s “Count Zero”?

  • [Tdawwg]

    Why is voudo somehow less twenty-first-century than an earpiece? People believe in this all over the world, right now. Non-overlapping magisteria, etc.

• [Perfoi]

  It would sure be AWESOME if the voodoo tradition in America got way more popular and respected, complete with child trafficking and slavery! I’ll have two with my latte and NPR morning edition, please!

  See this documentary on Voodoo in Benin.

  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2879228439949087697#

• [sleze]

  Since when is voodoo spelled Voudo? The goofy practices of voodoo are equivalent to Catholic exorcisms.

• [Roach]

  If Pat Robertson is right, any day now New York’s gonna get hit by a bigarse earthquake.

• [Roach McKrackin]

  sleze: There are many proper spellings. Stop showing your ignorance of something you clearly don’t understand

• [Cogito]

  Actually, it is spelled Vodou and it is a religion just as credible as any other.

• [Anonymous]

  When I worked in a supermarket deli there was this 16 year old Haitian kid who worked there. He tried to convince me that voodoo was real by telling me stories of people being put under its control. He fully and completely believed that getting on the wrong side of a voodoo practitioner was a death sentence.

• [Anonymous]

  just more proof that every religion is crazy. She looks crazy to most americans; i suppose drinking wine pretending to be blood and eating bread pretending to be flesh is normal?

• [Anonymous]

  Anybody know which vodun loa is riding that horse?