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.
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