After Vodundays · Gallery · Ouidah, Benin
These images were taken inside closed ceremonies, in families who don't open their doors to tourists, at sites the official circuits never reach. You are looking at what only After Vodundays participants have lived.
100
participants max per edition
5
experience categories
0
agencies able to replicate this
10M
FCFA to local communities
Off-limits to the general public, reserved for After Vodundays participants
Zangbeto procession · night of January 10 · Ouidah · WebP 760×500
Opening ritual · Mami Wata convent · interior · torchlight · WebP 760×500
Fa initiation · Hounon at work · hands and cowries · detail · WebP 760×500
Egungun mask dance · central square · crowd · color · WebP 760×500
The real families who receive you, 10M FCFA generated per edition
Hounon family · evening meal together · house interior · natural light · WebP 760×500
Bronzeworker and participant · Abomey workshop · hands at work · WebP 760×500
Fishing family · canoe at sunrise · Lake Ahémé · WebP 760×500
Maro quarter · Aguda family · Brazilian facade · portrait · WebP 760×500
From the sacred to the Atlantic, the full territory of the experience
Door of No Return · sunset · silhouette · WebP 760×500
Sacred Forest of Kpassè · filtered light · baobabs · WebP 760×500
Grand-Popo · lagoon and Atlantic · golden light · WebP 760×500
Abomey Palace · appliqué wall hangings · royal art detail · WebP 760×500
The night of January 12, the celebration that exists nowhere else
After Party · live orchestra · stage · lights · WebP 760×500
Dance · participants and local artists · fusion · WebP 760×500
Cultural evening · storytelling under the stars · participant circle · WebP 760×500
Burrinha Carnival · Afro-Brazilian costumes · Ouidah street · WebP 760×500
Haiti · Brazil · France · USA · Caribbean, reconnection in pictures
Diaspora participant · Door of No Return · emotion · portrait · WebP 760×500
Diaspora group · welcome ceremony · Ouidah · WebP 760×500
Fa initiation · Haitian participant · hounon · hands · WebP 760×500
Shared meal · families and diaspora · common table · WebP 760×500
100 places. This is not a stay, it is access. Access to families, convents, guardians who don't open their door to the tourist market. No agency in the world can replicate this network: it took ONG Wa Afriki 10 years to weave it. 10M FCFA generated per edition. 65% returned directly to the communities. The images in this gallery were taken from the inside, not from the street.