“My son will grow up fearing the sea”
Today marks ten years since the devastating earthquake and Tsunami in northern Japan that caused one of the worst nuclear disasters in history. After a magnitude 9 earthquake hit off the coast of Tohoku, a massive Tsunami wiped off the Pacific coast in northern Japan, engulfing entire towns, killing over 18,000 people, and triggering a […]
Chronicles from Port au Prince
A massive earthquake hit the country on 12th of January 2010 leaving about 300,000 dead people and an unidentified number of injured. Hundreds of thousands of survivors were displaced. The collapsed buildings defining the landscape of the disaster area came as a consequence of Haiti’s lack of building codes. Without adequate reinforcement, the buildings disintegrated […]
Spirits in the Dust
Haiti. January 2010. This is a story about the spirits. About the relationship between the survivors and the deads. Vudù in Haiti is everywhere and it’s the cultural substrate of the perception of the death. The earthquake, with his 300.000 victims, uncorked a powerfull atmosphere. While I was covering the day by day events, I decided […]
La Grand Rue
La Grand Rue is a wide road that runs along the port and crosses the whole city of Port Au Prince, is the commercial and economic center and the beating heart of the Haitian capital. La Grand Rue is the struggle of everyday in Port Au Prince, from sunrise to sunset and beyond, […]