May 18th, 2006

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Photos from Haiti

Haiti kidsI forget how I found these, but here are two great photo sets of one of the less seen corners of the Earth, Haiti:

  • Alice points to and criticizes globe-trotting journalist Kevin Sites’s photos. She remarks that “the photo journal does what mainstream journalists usually do when they show Haiti: show the very worst and the very worst *only*.”
  • As a refreshing alternative, Alice directs us to Martin Baran’s photos, which she says show “people *living their lives*, in the thick of the hustle and bustle of their daily routines, despite the terrible odds.”

That’s a trip around the world, isn’t it? A Canadian reports on a Haitian-American (I think) discussing the photographs of Haiti taken by a Slovakian and an American. Can you get any more global than that?

Comments: One Response so far

Alice B.
May 20th, 2006
12:47 am

Thanks for the reference. I suppose I could be called a Haitian-American and it was good to learn that Kevin Sites is Canadian although I am not fond of labels. Do see your point though on the internationalism of the whole thing.

Also wanted to point out that one of the things Kevin Sites could have done better (and even Martin Baran too to some degree) was show broader social group diversity in Haiti. The point being, would you really be doing New York justice if all you shot was the worst projects?

BTW, you should really click on all the links in Martin’s blog to see a broader cross section of his pictures and hence a better rendition of the country. I really liked his shots of markets, the one of the young woman in the cybercafe and the ones of the old and new cathedrals of Hinche but because of the way blogs work, they are not on the page you linked to.

Ciao!

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