HAITI / DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
Select photographic and video documentation from a research trip to Port-au-Prince and neighboring regions, eight months after the 2010 earthquake. The trip was geared towards exploration of social, economic, and political division, reflected in the vast diversity of landscape. Part of the research involved documenting the border between the Dominican Republic and Haiti through aerial fly-overs and on-the-ground site visits. Extensive documentation included hundreds of images, hours of video footage, studies, and interviews with people of the region.
The trip was made possible by funding from the Lower East Side Printshop Special Residency Program and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.
Associated projects: Haiti/Dominican Republic Border, Haiti: Tree Ruins & Tree Line
Photographs
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- Downtown Port-au-Prince, September 2010. Not much has changed in the eight months following the quake.
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- Port-au-Prince. Example of the pancaking effect—with the integrity of the load-bearing walls compromised, entire floors were completely flattened.
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- Downtown Port-au-Prince. Debris is omnipresent; with no ability to remove it, people simply pile it up in the streets.
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- Downtown Port-au-Prince. The sheer scale of the devastation is overwhelming.
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- Roadside on the way to Jacmel.
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- Used blankets and sheets for sale. Nothing is trash any more.
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- Port-au-Prince. UN military guards in front of the ruined National Palace.
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- Casket seller in Jacmel.
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- Market outside Cité Soleil. Dust from the road.
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- Market outside Cité Soleil.
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- Market outside Cité Soleil. The ground is strewn with raw garbage.
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- Reginald Jean-François in his workshop. Reggie’s toy factory employs orphans 11 to 16 years old.
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- Reggie and friend with a batch of tap-taps. The toys are made out of empty cans, using nothing more than tin snips and hammers.
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- Port-au-Prince cemetery. Black Vodou cross outside of a Catholic church. The lady in azure headscarf is a Vodou priestess.
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- Titanyen, just north of Port-au-Prince. Volunteers from the local parish prepare graves for people who have not died yet.
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- Titanyen, just north of Port-au-Prince. Volunteers from the local parish prepare graves for people who have not died yet.
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- Titanyen. Mass grave site for the victims of the earthquake. The entire area is speckled with white wooden crosses.
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- Aerial view of the border between Haiti and Dominican Republic. Lush ecosystem on the Dominican side, deforestation and erosion on the Haitian side.
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- Haiti, near the Dominican Republic border. Example of massive erosion of topsoil as a result of deforestation.
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- Armed Dominican military at the border crossing, as seen from the Haitian side.
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- Interview with Max Antoine II, Executive Director of the Frontier Development Commission.
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- Interview with Max G. Beauvoir, the Pope of Vodou.
Videos
Interview with Joseph Bernadel, Major, US Army (retired), former Military Attaché in Haiti, co-founder of the Toussaint L’Ouverture High School for Arts and Social Justice in Delray Beach, FL.
Interview with Max G. Beauvoir, Supreme Chief of Haitian Vodou.
Interview with Max Antoine II, Executive Director of the Frontier Development Commission.
Interview with Reginald Jean-François, entrepreneur, founder of The Tap-Tap Project.
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