Author: Sean Sheridan

Sean Sheridan is a photojournalist and author who for the last 16 years has been shooting and writing stories that elevate people and brands. Sheridan has a bachelor of science degree in journalism from the William Allen White School of Journalism at the University of Kansas. His first major work project was to help craft the marketing plan surrounding the launch of Bill Gates’ best-selling book, The Road Ahead and produce the CD-ROM version bound into the book. He also contributed to Gates’ second book, Business @ the Speed of Thought, before joining a private production company to shoot film projects around the world. In July 2002, Sheridan started 4:Minute.Media to tell compelling stories through feature writing, photography, film, and publishing. His work has taken him to nearly 60 countries and has been found in SMITHSONIAN magazine and on the cover of The Washington Times, countless development agencies and gallery exhibitions, Testimony Africa—his book about the terrible beauty of AIDS, genocide, and hunger in Africa—and most recently Wahl STORY, his book about renowned graffiti artist Erik Wahl. Sheridan and his family live in Colorado.
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Ruth Washburn Middle 3s – 2009/2010

What a great year at Ruth Washburn for the Middle 3s!

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The DR

Each year I try to make some of my time available for a project that could either use a little help or afford me the chance to be involved in something larger than my own little world. Although my paid work often does just that, it’s normally a completely different experience for me if there is not a “client” watching me closely. So a few weeks ago I had the chance to go to the Dominican Republic for a week with some friends from my church and help do some construction at a place called Mission Emanuel. We also visited a leper colony, a first for me. It was an outstanding trip! I did take my camera and got a few shots off everywhere I went. Here is a sampling:

At Mission Emanuel’s medical clinic. Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic – March 2010
The mission has a water bottling facility that provides clean water to the community at an affordable price. Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic – March 2010
Flag raising ceremony at the mission’s school. Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic – March 2010. (C)2010 Sean Sheridan.
At a leper colony outside Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic – March 2010. (C)2010 Sean Sheridan.
At a leper colony outside Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic – March 2010. (C)2010 Sean Sheridan.
At a leper colony outside Santa Domingo, Dominican Republic – March 2010. (C)2010 Sean Sheridan.

For those of you who want to see more, check out the slideshow below…

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Haiti – The Aftermath

A few final selects from Haiti. Life continues there much the same way it did in the immediate days after the January 12, 2010 earthquake — a deep fear of aftershocks, futures filled with uncertainty, and people everywhere wondering how they are going to make it. There are no easy answer for Haiti right now. Hopefully these images will keep Haiti in your mind a little longer than the average news cycle, which has now largely moved on to the next crisis in the world…

A barber shop stands remains standing despite the collapse of building all around it. Port-au-Prince, Haiti. February 2010.
Members of the 82 Airborne division guard a food distribution at the King’s Gardens Orphanage, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. February 17, 2010.
A human skull sits on a bed of rubble outside a hotel in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The body, along with one partially exposed under the rubble, was burned in an attempt to both kill the smell of the decomposing bodies as well as hide the identities of the deceased as the hotel was a brothel and friends of the man who died wished to hide the fact that he was killed while seeing a prositute. February 2010.
A woman in the Solino Slum, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. February 16, 2010.
Families try to figure out how to respond to the mud that fills their tent city after only a single night’s rain. This woman is standing in the mud she and her child, who lost a leg in the January 12, 2010 earthquake, will have to sleep in tonight unless they figure something out. HA355, Port-au-Prince, Haiti, February 18, 2010.
Car batteries help power a food distribution warehouse in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. February 2010.

Want to see more? Play the file below.

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Haiti – Here Comes the Rain Again

Two nights ago I was awakened by something wet hitting my feet, which were sticking out of my tent trying to keep cool (at the expense of getting consumed by mosquitoes). It was raining, and raining hard. I quickly zipped everything up and stayed relatively dry. Not so for hundreds of thousands of Haitians living on the streets and in tent cities. Many of those people woke up soaking in ankle deep mud, with everything that they own, themselves included, totally drenched.

This is just the start of a months-long rainy season, and the start of a whole new wave of troubles for a people still deeply affected by the January 12, 2010 earthquake. Here are a few images from the day after the rain, as well as life in one of Haiti’s poorer areas – the Solino Slum.

In the Solino Slum area in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, a tent city that houses hundreds of homeless families fills with mud after the first rain since the January 12, 2010 earthquke. February 18, 2010.
Life in Solino, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. February 18, 2010.
Jesus is Lord, written on the inside of the front wall of the partially destroyed home of Naiki Docile, 6. The family sleeps outside each night for fear of being buried in their home if a strong aftershock should strike. Port-au-Prince, Haiti. February 18, 2010.
A few Haitian coins collect sunlight inside the tent of Jacques Kervens, 8, and his mother, Amecelia Pierre, 40, who survived the January 12, 2010 earthquake that severly damaged their home, making it unfit and unsafe to live in. Solino Slum, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. February 16, 2010.
Ferlandie Fadius, 19, undergoes a CT scan on her head. She was severely affected by the earthquake. When rescuers freed her from the concrete pinning her head down, the had to first remove her dead cousin, who was pinned across her lap. Port-au-Prince, Haiti. February 16, 2010.
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Haiti – Impressions

I hit the ground in Haiti on Feb. 9 at 9:10 in the morning. I was greeted by U.S. Army choppers overhead, carrying supplies to God knows where, and the deafening roar of the C17 Charleston backing up on the runway. It still felt very much like a war zone. Over the next week I took a great many photographs. Here are a few.

Jean Guerrier, 10, and his mother, Roseline Cherutin, 39, take a moment to look upon the home they lived in before the January 12, 2010 earthquake destroyed it, forcing them to go live in a tent on a patch of dirt nearby. Port-au-Prince, Haiti. February 2010.
A rubble pile in the middle of the Solino Slum, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. February 2010.
A Catholic Church in ruins, destroyed by the earthquake. Port-au-Prince, Haiti. February 2010.
In the aftermath of the worst earthquake to hit the region in 200 years, signs asking for help dot the landscape everywhere around Port-au-Prince, Haiti. February 2010.
A man carries a case of King Cola into the Solino Slum, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. February 2010.
Haitian President Rene Preval, center, has a black mourning band put onto his left arm for the National Day of Prayer and Fasting at the University of Notre Dame in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The ceremony is marking one month from the January 12, 2010 earthquake. Preval’s wife, Elisabeth, is on right, in black. February 12, 2010.

I have intentionally not made many posts about my time in Haiti. It remains a difficult situation for all of those here and who have been affected (which is nearly everyone). So let it suffice to say that it was and continues to be a difficult assignment at times, and challenging in nearly every way. Please continue to keep these people in your hearts and prayers. They need it, and will for the long haul.