Phalonne Pierre Louis documented tennis at the tennis and golf club located in Port-au-Prince’s gated and privately guarded suburb of Pétion-Vile, while Jean Paul Saint Fleur shot at four sites in Jacmel, including at the IOA Center, an elementary school founded by Naomi’s parents in 2001. Presented here are some outtakes from the feature in Racquet No. 17.
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The venue was the Thompson Central Park, the glass and stone tower just off Sixth Avenue, and the game was ping pong, played to a soundtrack of cocktail chatter and the clink of glasses filled with tequila. Parker’s, the hotel’s moody bar, had been reimagined as the LALO Clubhouse for the tournament: cocktails and caviar for the invite-only crowd, live Open coverage flickering on screens, and a photo wall waiting for Instagram.
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