The photographer Leonore Mau (1916-2013) travelled to Haiti in the 1970s during the dictatorship of Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier. She was travelling with the writer Hubert Fichte (1935-1986). The trip was part of a long-term research project on Afro-diasporic religions. The project took Mau and Fichte to Benin, Brazil, Grenada, Senegal and Venezuela, among other places. Mau’s photographs were published in the photo books “Xango” (1976) & “Petersilie” (1980) & in travel reports in many German magazines. However, the majority have neither been published nor shown in exhibitions and are in the photographer’s estate at the bpk picture agency in Berlin. The exhibition seeks a decolonial approach to these images and asks how working with this archive can contribute to changing the image of Haiti, which is still characterised by stereotypes today. The exhibition is an artistic development of the research project “Out of Focus” by Dora Imhof and the artists’ collective U5 at the University of Zurich.