โThe Ghetto Tarotโ: Haitian artists transform classic tarot deck into stunning real life scenes:
Welcome to the Ghetto Tarot, a project from award-winning documentary photographer Alice Smeets and a group of Haitian artists known as Atis Rezistans. The idea was to take the classic Rider-Waite tarot deck of 78 cards and create a photographic version of each card using settings and objects in the vibrant ghetto of Haiti.
As Smeets says, โThe spirit of the Ghetto Tarot project is the inspiration to turn negative into positive while playing. The group of artists โAtiz Rezistansโ use trash to create art with their own visions that are a reflection of the beauty they see hidden within the waste. They are claiming the word โGhetto,โ thus freeing themselves of its depreciating undertone and turning it into something beautiful.โ