Marie is a photographer, educator, and art therapist in training whose work examines cultural identity, history, and community-based storytelling. Grounded in long-term engagement and collaborative methodologies, her practice explores photography as a tool for self-representation, collective memory, and psychosocial healing.
Her years living and working in Haiti inform an approach to photography that is both relational and ethically situated. From 2010 to 2024, Arago served as director of FotoKonbit, a Haiti-based nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting local authorship and the production of visual narratives shaped from within the communities they represent.
Arago is frequently commissioned by public health organizations to develop responsible photographic content aligned with maternal and mental health initiatives. She is currently training as an art therapist with an adolescent population, and developing research at the intersection of photography, trauma-informed practice, and art therapy.