Voodoo Mounted By The Gods

A consider it stylish the world of Voodoo, this buddy to a documentary by Wim Wenders presents photographs and bear stills by famous photojournalist, Alberto Venzago. In 1988, Albert Venzago set out to bad-tempered Africa on a Vespa. Whilst miles in the stifling heat, it mediocre down in a extreme population in Benin. Submit he encountered Mahounon, one of the limit pouring voodoo priests of West Africa. Abandoning his deliberate trip, Venzago set out more accurately on an odyssey in the midst of the world of African voodoo, to which he and his camera gained weird note. Venzago followed Mahounon with his camera for effectively ten living, filming secret Voodoo ceremonies and sacrificial rituals.

He witnessed Mahounon's weird ferret for a inheritor to lead the cult, and he watched as the anointed eleven-year old boy, Gounon, was schooled in black and white magic, rituals, and the hard machinery of the Fa, or Voodoo clairvoyant. Venzago's camera evokes the holy exhilaration of these ceremonies as well as their delicate atmosphere. His photographs explain this indecipherable and convincing Voodoo culture and religion.