Widline Cadet, Ritual [Dis]Appearance / Seremoni Disparisyon

Widline Cadet’s debut monograph Ritual [Dis]Appearance / Seremoni Disparisyon offers a critical exploration of photography as a visual archive of her family’s diasporic experience. Drawing from her Haitian heritage and personal archive, Cadet weaves together staged portraits, archival interventions, and evocative stills to examine how Black and immigrant identities are shaped, remembered, and at times, fragmented across time and space.

Her images are both intimate and expansive—merging personal narrative with broader questions of identity, memory, displacement, cultural continuity and erasure. The book features an essay by Shanna Jean-Baptiste, along with interviews and conversations between Widline and her great aunt, mother, and sister—three women representing different generations of her family.

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Hardcover, Black Mountains Studio, 2025
128 p, 8.5 × 10.5 in.