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A Regla, l’amour du rite 8/12/2016 Liberation: "L’Italien Nicola Lo Calzo,
qui s’intéresse depuis 2010, avec son projet Cham, aux diasporas africaines et
aux mémoires postcoloniales, a mené ses recherches à Cuba en 2015 et 2016. Il a
réussi à photographier plusieurs communautés, dont les francs-maçons de Santiago
de Cuba. Mais ce sont surtout ses images des abakuás qui impressionnent.
Toujours très crainte, cette société initiatique secrète masculine est née au
début du XIXe siècle en périphérie de la capitale, où était concentrée la
population noire, esclave ou libre. Sa tradition se rattache aux sociétés
initiatiques Ekpe du Nigeria."
Memories of the African Diaspora: A Conversation with Nicola Lo Calzo 7/21/2016 Aperture: "Since
2010, the Italian photographer Nicola Lo Calzo has traversed the Atlantic coasts
to research buried memories of the African Diaspora. His latest installment,
Regla, taken in Cuba, is the sixth and last chapter in an album entitled Cham,
following series in West Africa, Guadeloupe, Haiti, the southern United States,
French Guyana, and Suriname, each of which set the stage for photographic
journeys through history. Mixing documentary and art photography, Regla reveals
a society’s solidarity and resistance to oppression."
Vital Rituals of the Afro-Cuban Underground 6/15/2016 New Yorker: "Lo Calzo
writes that “there are two Cubas”: “The official one with its myths, its
revolutionary heroes and enemies,” and another one, “underground and shrouded in
silence and secrecy,” which is “all but invisible to the naïve, foreign eye.”
His interest resides firmly in the second world, where marginalized groups have
flourished in the face of oppression: subjugation, slavery, survival. But the
strength of “Regla” is the way that Lo Calzo, whose process involves conducting
extensive interviews with his subjects, finds overlap and exchange not only
among Afro-Cuban cultural forms but between the official Cuban narrative and the
“silent, ordinary” ones that carry on beneath the surface."
Exiles - The Maroons of Suriname and French Guiana. 6/8/2015 New
Yorker: "Adrien Ajintoena, a member of one of the largest Ndyuka Maroon
families, and a survivor of a 1986 massacre in which Surinamese troops attacked
his village, Moiwana, and killed at least thirty-five Maroons. Photographed in
Charvein, French Guiana."
“The future of urban palenques.” by Ivor Miller, Introduction to Regla, a book of photographs by Nicola Lo Calzo on Cuban popular culture. Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg Berlin, 2017
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