Haiti Place The Colorful Transformation of a Haitian Slum

News Information

  • NEWS_POSTED_BY: Haiti Place
  • NEWS_POSTED_ON: Nov 20, 2015
  • Views : 817
  • Category : Haiti News
  • Description : The Atlantic

    Nov 20, 2015 | 352-part series
    Video by RYOT


  • Location : Haiti
  • Website : http://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/415779/painting-the-town-rainbow/

Overview

  • In The Painter of Jalouzi, we learn the story of Duval Pierre, one man trying to uplift his community—Haiti's largest slum—through color. He envisions a Jalouzi where color is everywhere, and starts by painting houses and buses with a rainbow of pink, red, purple, and turquoise. "Imagine a place without color," Pierre says. "That is a place without joy."

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