This is Exilien Cenat. He is a Bayakou, the Haitian word for laborers who empty latrines. People throw stones at them almost as if embarrassed that they need someone like the Bakayou to clean up their waste

The foto was made by Andrea Bruce for the National Geographic

The image hit me and I cut him out and left the two beams from the space he was standing in attached tot his body. The illusion of a crusifix was created. I placed this whole ensemble in a spacious landscape to give him the presence such a man deserves