SLAVE HOUSES

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These images were taken in southern Louisiana, around the villages of Vacherie and Thibodaux. They show the type of housing in which enslaved people lived on plantations, primarily sugar cane plantations.

These houses were built between the 1760s and 1860s. The American Civil War (1861–1865) and Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 brought slavery to an end in the United States.

Inspired by certain artists from the Düsseldorf School, such as photographer Andreas Gursky and painter Gerhard Richter, I often choose to highlight the puzzling aspects of the human condition and the sublime beauty of the ordinary in my work.

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