Like the writers Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, and Édouard Glissant before her, Cédrine Scheidig is, to borrow the words of Glissant’s American translator, a distinguished theorist of “Caribbean self-formation.” Born in 1994 in the Seine-Saint-Denis suburbs northeast of Paris to a French mother and a Guadeloupean father, Scheidig began taking photographs in her early twenties. Her first mature work explored the immigrant communities in which she grew
