Untitled
DAVEED BAPTISTE, Untitled, 2021, Digital photography
These images are centered around playfulness, dreaming, and boyhood. All of these sets were built within my studio, a constructed environment made entirely by my team and me.
Through the remixing of materials and the inclusion of cultural symbols, I aim to reveal the complexity of life for Haitian immigrants—descendants of the first independent Black nation in the West.
Sin Don't Live Here
DAVEED BAPTISTE, Sin Don't Live Here, 2019, Digital photography
Sin Don’t Live Here honors my mother and other Haitian women, and her steadfast practice of praying and perseverance.
Daveed Baptiste is an interdisciplinary designer and artist whose work incorporates fashion design, textile design, and photography. He draws inspiration from his migration from Port au-Prince, Haiti to Miami, Florida. Through projects like Haiti to Hood and Ti Maché, Baptiste explores themes of migration and cultural preservation within the Haitian community and the larger Caribbean diaspora, reclaiming African diasporic futures and narratives.
His acclaimed series Haiti to Hood, celebrated in The New Yorker (2019), links nostalgia to materiality.In 2022, Baptiste was awarded a year-long apprenticeship with Converse, co-designing the Black Joy Collection and new designs for the Energy basketball team. He has exhibited at New York University, the Aperture Foundation, and debuted a solo exhibition, Ti Maché (2023), at MoCADA Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Art, marking the release of his first fashion collection. Baptiste is currently a Designer in Residence at Material for the Arts in Queens, NY.