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Gregory Halpern

regory Halpern’s latest solo exhibition and photobook take their title, , from the 1948 collection of surrealist poems by the Martinican writer and politician Aimé Césaire. A poetic thread is woven throughout the series, which was made during a 2019 residency in Guadeloupe and presented in 2020 at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris. In images taken over the course of

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