In New York's Parks, Images That Make Us Long for Connection

In New York's Parks, Images That Make Us Long for Connection


In New York’s Parks, Images That Make Us Long for Connection
Somber yet serene, Widline Cadet’s black-and-white portraits carry the sensation of familial intimacy.
Portfolios - April 16, 2021
I happened to be reading Roland Barthes’s
A Lover’s Discourse (1977) when these photographs by Widline Cadet landed in my in-box. Although, Cadet’s photographs might have a more likely kinship with Barthes’s
Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (1980), his highly personal study, in which he writes that “in order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or close your eyes.”
Eyes closed, I tried to re-create my own version of these images, which would remain with me long after they were out of sight. What persisted was their coupling and twinning, what in a mix of Haitian Creole and English (Crenglish) one might call their

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