Naomieh Jovin
The Trailbrazer
Naomieh Jovin is a first-generation Haitian-America and a photographic artist. Her work utilizes appropriated photos from old family albums and incorporates her own photographs to illustrate resistance and intergenerational trauma, and how we carry the experiences of our past and our family’s past in our bodies. She received her BFA in Photography and Digital Arts from Moore College of Art & Design (‘17). Her work has been featured in The Nation and Buzzfeed. She has photographed for the New York Times and Vogue Italia. She was selected as a Lens Culture 2021 Critics Choice winner, she was awarded an artist residence at the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, and she was recently named a 2021 PEW Fellow in the Arts.
The Trailblazer makes an art of taking the road less traveled. They are Escape Artists and masters of making a way out of no way. The Trailblazer’s life is a light in the darkness for others who have lost their way. They are leaders by radical action and courageous deeds that are often selfless. The Trailblazer moves through life and over obstacles in the spirit of freedom and faith that there are better roads and brighter days ahead.