Love Soulèy

“It is a beautiful time to reclaim and remember our cultures and where we came from, in order to help us connect and grow. Seeing our culture and traditions in action and how we practice today in a visual manner is a profound first step. My work as a visual artist is about remembering as a gift to help us explore and reconnect.”

Meet Love

Love Soulèy (she/her) is a spirit-led storyteller and visual archivist who lives in Atlanta, Georgia. A Haitian American, she is dedicated to preserving the cultures and folk traditions of melanated and Indigenous people through film and photography. Holistic remembrance is a key pillar of her work. She understands that by visually archiving the oral traditions of her ancestors’ communities in a rooted way, their cultures and stories stay present, remembered, and passed on.

Love’s project for the Adobe Stock Artist Development Fund is called “Martino.” It is an exploration of the folklore of the Taíno people, who were the indigenous inhabitants of Haiti and many other Caribbean islands. To honor of the energy of Taíno women and the world that they created for themselves, her project will present a visual portal of today's ritual practices, cultivated homes, healing spaces, and spiritual embodiment of women from the Antilles islands. She says, “It is a beautiful time to reclaim and remember our cultures and where we came from, in order to help us connect and grow. Seeing our culture and traditions in action and how we practice today in a visual manner is a profound first step. My work as a visual artist is about remembering as a gift to help us explore and reconnect.”