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Hola Mi Amol, Karla Hiraldo Voleau

French-Dominican photographer Karla Hiraldo Voleau grew up with one constant warning: “Never date a Dominican.” In Hola Mi Amol, Hiraldo Voleau returns to the Dominican Republic to cast her gaze on the bodies of the many men she meets, mostly men working in the tourism trade. There, she explores desire, sex, and love in this luscious, tender, and sexy debut. Her sensual, unstaged, mostly nude, photos of the men she connects with are punctuated by vulnerable self-portraits of their intimate encounters. Accompanied by short texts, Hola Mi Amol unfolds into a story that is at once fierce, funny, and compassionate. In the DR without her mother, aunt, or grandmother (all of whom had fallen in love, married, or had a child there), and out of sight of her male relatives there, Voleau frees herself to the borders of what feels “allowed” in love, sexuality, and friendship. Inevitably, her document of this edge carries a trace of the often brutal loneliness of our times. Hiraldo Voleau’s curiosity about eroticism, virility, cultural and racial identities, and the status of the female-gaze vibrates through the pages of this sly and stunning debut.

Publication year: 2019
Published by: SPBH Editions / ECAL
Edited by: Milo Keller
Texts: Karla Hiraldo Voleau, Catherine Taylor
Language: English
Graphic design: Pauline Brocart
Pages: 152, hardcover
Photographies: Karla Hiraldo Voleau
Images: 76 (color)
Dimensions: 1.5 × 20 × 27 cm
Weight: 672 g
ISBN: 9781916041202

CHF40.–

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