Many of the specific sites where slave rebellions took place are unknown, having been forgotten, or the landscape altered beyond recognition. These sites of rebellion are, by and large, just everyday places.
This project is about how rebellions are remembered (or not remembered) in the landscape. Through my experience of these places, as witnessed in my photographs, I am marking them as critical places in a topography of historical consciousness, bringing forward how these rebellions still echo in social patterns and economic structures today.
These photographs appear as ordinary pictures of ordinary places until we understand that the sites are specific, and each has an essential story to tell.
- Mikael Levin