Leah Gordon

Gordon in 2021

Leah Gordon (born 1959) is a British photographer, artist, curator, writer and filmmaker.[1] Her work explores the intervolved and intersectional histories of the Caribbean plantation system, the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, the Enclosure Acts and the creation of the British working-class. She has made various work in Haiti, such as the photographs of Kanaval, which was published in 2021 by Here Press and exhibited at the New Art Exchange, Nottingham in 2012; and the documentary film Kanaval: A People's History of Haiti in Six Chapters (2022, with Eddie Hutton-Mills).[2]

  1. ^ "Leah Gordon's best photograph". The Guardian. 20 June 2012. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  2. ^ Le, Phuong (11 November 2022). "Kanaval: A People's History of Haiti in Six Chapters review – spirited and striking". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 5 March 2023.