Marché

Short, loose strokes give this busy gathering a restless surface. Moving produce and selling it are different roles in Haiti’s food trade. In Nyperking Jean Baptiste’s market, the eye keeps moving through the activity without settling on a single person. The pleasure lies in the company of the whole, with each presence finding room inside it.

Women in bright dresses and headscarves carry head-baskets or sit among produce before wooden houses with rusted roofs. A man in white and blue walks through them. Deep, streaked blue and violet fill the sky.