Overshadowed by his Photo: The Afterlives of Omran Daqneesh
Omran's suffering essentially disappeared at the very moment the image of it became visible.
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The Haiti Earthquake +1
Mario Tama has been commemorating ritual anniversaries by returning to specific places and re-photographing scenes he had captured before. On this one year anniversary of the Haiti earthquake, the images quietly express the overarching present reality of an event that so galvanized the world a year ago.
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I Love This Photo of Fabienne Jean. And That's What Worries Me. (Updated Again.)
Even though the NYT article completely downplays it, Ms. Jean is not a Haitian everywoman, thus someone randomly singled out by The Times as a lucky recipient of international care and aid. Rather, she is a beautiful and known Haitian, the kind who has drawn this kind of...
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Brendan Hoffman: Haiti Far From The Madding Crowd
The fifth and last of Brendan Hoffman's series from Haiti six months after the earthquake. If so many Haitian farmers hadn't been driven off their land by cheap foreign goods, these photos would represent many more who survived the quake in the capital and were living a sustainable rural...
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Brendan Hoffman: Eyes on Haiti's Rapes
They were willing to identify themselves to a foreign journalist and tell their stories: "They felt that, at least someone is asking and concerned," but Brendan felt, "I wanted to preserve their anonymity as much as possible. So I shot really tight and cropped in on the eyes." Because this...
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Brendan Hoffman: About Those Haitian Smiles
The second reason I wanted to return to Brendan Hoffman's recent images from Haiti is to reinforce the picture of the Haitian character. What we don't see in these two photographs, in the smiles, are a people either in denial of their circumstances or consumed to the core by...
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Brendan Hoffman: Haiti, Six Months Later
Photographer Brendan Hoffman returns to Haiti, six months after the earthquake.
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Jon Lowenstein: Aftershock Haiti
BagNewsSalon presents Jon Lowenstein's photos from Haiti in the aftermath of the 2010 earthquake in his own words.
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The Presidents of Haiti
It almost looks like a good news/bad news quiz the way the Clintons are coming to take another pass at Haiti.
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Haiti: Strictly Bananas
The BAG takes a look at the visual and racial politics of a cluster of U.N. photos from Haiti in the aftermath of the devastating earthquake.
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"If you had seen the faces of those children as we loaded them onto the airplane, you wouldn’t have asked a lot of questions, either.” (Gov. Rendell)
A photo of supposed Haitian orphans being transported to Pittsburgh takes on a completely different feeling now that officials are finally digging into who they are.
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Haiti: But She Can Sweep
These are not the practices of state action or global mobilization by state and non-governmental organizations; instead, they are the simple habits of life.
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How Many News Stories Do You See About It When Haitians Get Pissed Off…
Not Seeing Quite As Many Reports Of Those Haitians Getting Pretty Pissed Off In a Constructive Way.
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The Politics of Aid
The largest contingent of medical relief workers in Haiti since the January 12th earthquake? The Cubans.
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Haiti: "Nobody in Charge" (As Far As U.S. Is Concerned)
It's like "Where's Waldo?" -- except the guy we can't find is René Préval.
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BagNewsSalon: Haiti Aftermath
This BAGnewsSalon examined a small group of images from the week following the devastating Haitian earthquake, considering: the boundaries of the graphic and sensational; how much the pictures presented a representative versus generic or stereotyped view of the Haitian people; and whether the pictures overly skewed toward human suffering...
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It Feels So Good To Help
"What happens to poor countries when they embrace free trade? In Haiti in 1986 we imported just 7000 tons of rice, the main staple food of the country. The vast majority was grown in Haiti. In the late 1980s Haiti complied with free trade policies advocated by the international...
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