Provisoria delete Melissa Alcena is a Bahamian

Melissa Alcena is a Bahamian portrait and documentary photographer based between The Bahamas and NYC

and actors: Rasti Farooq and Akihiro Miwa

mandalas and Raid cans are some of the artist's recurring motifs

from the Atlantic Coast to the Black Sea

Publication is prepared with the support of the MOCA NGO and the Ukrainian Emergency Art Fund in collaboration with the Sigrid Rausing Trust

Provisoria delete Melissa Alcena is a BahamianProvisoria is an alternative image archive curated by Ria Verhaeghe since the early 1990s, sourced from international newspapers. Organized by keywords, dates, and thematic groupings, the archive is an effort to explore a different dimension of photojournalism. The imagesoften dramatic, ambiguous, or unsettlingexplore the raw and layered emotional dimensions of photojournalism. With over 60,000 images, the collection spans from the striking and