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Yoly Belizaire is a Haitian American photo-based artist, educator, and cultural organizer based in Miami, Florida. She holds a M.A. in African Diaspora Studies from Florida International University. She roots her creative practice in the deep soil of ethnography, blending scholarship with spirit. Through film photography, altar installations, and audio storytelling, Yoly explores ancestral and spiritual memory through the practice of anti-colonial and anti imperial world building. Her work serves as a portal for dreaming, remembrance and channeling, drawing from Haitian folkloric frameworks of possession and the ritual of image-making. She poses the question: Can the camera possess us? Using this lens, Yoly merges documentary photography with ritual portraiture as a means to seek the answers to the questions that dwell in her heart.

Beyond her visual practice, Yoly experiments with sound—incorporating narration, podcasting, and story collection into her storytelling.

Her work delves into themes of loss, cultural memory, caribbean identity, family ties, post colonial dreaming, ceremonies, mothering, and diasporic belonging.

Contact

Yolybelizaire@gmail.com

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