People of the Sun by Melissa Alcena, 2024

“The Bahamas has suffered a lot in the past couple of years-enduring the aftermath and unfathomable devastation of Hurricane Dorian and then receiving another massive blow, that was the Covid-19 pandemic shortly after.

As an artist whose creations at the time were totally reliant upon my interactions with Bahamians in the everyday, to say that this time had been difficult for me would be an understatement. But with the introduction of safety protocols and vaccines, I was able to adjust my process and continue to create images…”

Melissa Alcena is a Bahamian portrait and documentary photographer based between The Bahamas and NYC. Alcena’s practice has been the lens through which she has reintroduced herself to the Bahamian landscape, after studying in Canada. Through this exploration and reintroduction, Alcena documents people in situ, expanding the visual tropes often exported from the Caribbean. Often in conversation with her subjects, Alcena’s photographs are a testament to kinship and an ode to the landscape.

Editor - Kris Graves
Design - Luminosity Lab

7 x 8.5" softcover, 4-color offset
48 pages
First Edition
Limited edition to 400 copies
Free Domestic Shipping
ISBN: 9781954877122

OPTION I - Book Only - $28
OPTION II - Book with Print, 8 x 10” archival pigment print, signed, limited to 12 copies - $200
OPTION III - Book with full LOST IV series, in a slipcase (limited to 40 copies) - $250

*This book is part of our series LOST IV, which includes:
Anthem by Oji Haynes
Black Snafu by Andre Ramos-Woodard
Blood on the Ballast by Marshall Scheuttle
Breathless by Richard Renaldi
El Inquilino Mexico City by Tom Griggs
Los Angeles Without Boundaries by Peter Baker
Monument by Yoav Horesh
People of the Sun by Melissa Alcena
Shangri La by Melody Melamed
Tell Me About Saigon by Tracy Dong

COLLECTIONS
Amon Carter Museum of Art
Arcadia University
Bard College
Cleveland Museum of Art
Coastal Carolina University
Harvard University
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art
Pratt Institute
Rhode Island School of Design
Stanford University
National Gallery of Art