Régine Romain is a dynamic storyteller who uses photographs/film/performance to create acts of social resistance stoking the collective imagination, to keep alive new ways of seeing. For the past two years, she lived in Benin, West Africa, conducting research, teaching, completing her “Brooklyn to Benin: A Vodou Pilgrimage” mixed-media project and directing/producing three short films. While in West Africa, she created the WaWaWa Diaspora Centre, toactively heal historic wounds and trauma related to the TransAtlantic Slave Trade through inter-generational arts, education, and exchange programs. In August 2018, Régine launched her new podcast entitled “Vodou Roots: A Love Story Musical via BRIC Brooklyn Free Speech Radio.
A panel discussion moderated by MFON co-founders, Laylah Amatullah Barrayn and Adama Delphine Fawundu, will feature contributing photographers sharing perspectives on photography and spirituality.
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