haiti

From the time I was born until I was twenty, my sister was missing. My family didn’t know if she had died, disappeared, or chosen to leave us. This book is a journey through that silence.

In 1979, part of my family—my father, sister, and brother—left Italy to begin a new life in Haiti. I remained behind, growing up with fragments of a past I had never seen, and a sister whose presence lived only in memory and uncertainty.

This book weaves together personal family archives and contemporary photographs taken in both Italy and Haiti. It is a reflection on dislocation, migration, and the fragile ties that bind families across borders and decades. Each image and page is an attempt to build a bridge between the past and the present, between absence and reconnection.