BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 7.5 x 10.75 in. / 152 pgs / 104 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 9/17/2019
Active

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: FALL 2019 p. 122

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9781916041202 SDNR40
List Price: $45.00 CDN $62.00

AVAILABILITY
In stock

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Karla Hiraldo Voleau: Hola Mi Amol

French Dominican photographer Karla Hiraldo Voleau (born 1992) grew up with one constant warning: “Never date a Dominican.” In Hola Mi Amol, Hiraldo Voleau returns to the Dominican Republic to cast her gaze on the bodies of the many men she meets, mostly men working in the tourism trade. There, she explores desire, sex and love in this luscious, tender and sexy debut. Her sensual, unstaged, mostly nude photos of the men she connects with are punctuated by vulnerable self-portraits of their intimate encounters. Accompanied by short texts, Hola Mi Amol unfolds into a story that is at once fierce, funny and compassionate. In the Dominican Republic without her mother, aunt or grandmother (all of whom had fallen in love, married or had a child there), and out of sight of her male relatives there, Voleau frees herself to the borders of what feels "allowed" in love, sexuality and friendship.

Featured image is reproduced from 'Karla Hiraldo Voleau: Hola Mi Amola.'

PRAISE AND REVIEWS

1000 Words

Tim Clark

Hola Mi Amol speaks through the most personal and private experiences relating to eroticism, prowess and racial identities. Ultimately the male gaze has in effect been turned on itself to powerful, and at times beguiling, effect.