if Haiti doesn’t want you here she
living everything in her power to make
you so miserable that you will run
screaming for the next airplane out but
if she loves you if she sees in you a
kindred spirit she rings your heart out
every day and she has you coming back
for more
well in 2010 when the earthquake struck
Haiti extraordinary number of
journalists many who had never been here
before came it seems that most people
come when there’s a big event a big
crisis TV reporters photographers it
just became this sort of free-for-all
for people looking for that picture and
so I think that’s when things started to
unravel a bit Haiti deserves to be in a
good space and it’s just been really
hard I think we all were very strong and
have hope for Haiti
there is hard time here you know but the
media does it in a way that is really
not what we want to show about ourselves
I don’t think that we’ve done a very
good job of representing Haiti as
foreign press there’s this great beauty
that one wants to try to capture to sort
of balance out the image that we also
collectively create about Haiti as
foreign journalists and that’s why I try
to keep coming back and I’m trying to
photograph things that are different and
that’s how actually photo combi our
organization came to be born
compete is an action of many people to
do something together for a common goal
and the common goal for photobomb beats
is to show another side of Haiti by
Haitians so we’re doing it together we
wanted to be able to put the power of
Haiti’s image back into the hands of
patients and so we teach young people
and we go back and we teach and we
reteach and we reach there using cameras
for the very first time and they’re
taking the most extraordinary pictures
one of the important things we do is the
students document their communities but
it’s also the country the significance
in having patients photograph Haiti is
that I think we get to see who they
really are when young Haitians go in to
a community into a market especially the
communities where they live but we see
things about people that we would not
see otherwise they have that access they
have the trust of their community
and they just get pictures that other
people just simply wouldn’t get and they
mean something by way of their
photographs we Outsiders get to Ricci
Haiti we get to rethink it and what it’s
about for me it’s the beauty of Haiti
the soul of Haiti and what what happens
in everyday life here and how beautiful
it is actually you know and I think it
shows in the photos it’s not a question
do we continue is just we continue
mainly we want to empower Haitians to
show what is true about them and to
create a new image of Haiti
living everything in her power to make
you so miserable that you will run
screaming for the next airplane out but
if she loves you if she sees in you a
kindred spirit she rings your heart out
every day and she has you coming back
for more
well in 2010 when the earthquake struck
Haiti extraordinary number of
journalists many who had never been here
before came it seems that most people
come when there’s a big event a big
crisis TV reporters photographers it
just became this sort of free-for-all
for people looking for that picture and
so I think that’s when things started to
unravel a bit Haiti deserves to be in a
good space and it’s just been really
hard I think we all were very strong and
have hope for Haiti
there is hard time here you know but the
media does it in a way that is really
not what we want to show about ourselves
I don’t think that we’ve done a very
good job of representing Haiti as
foreign press there’s this great beauty
that one wants to try to capture to sort
of balance out the image that we also
collectively create about Haiti as
foreign journalists and that’s why I try
to keep coming back and I’m trying to
photograph things that are different and
that’s how actually photo combi our
organization came to be born
compete is an action of many people to
do something together for a common goal
and the common goal for photobomb beats
is to show another side of Haiti by
Haitians so we’re doing it together we
wanted to be able to put the power of
Haiti’s image back into the hands of
patients and so we teach young people
and we go back and we teach and we
reteach and we reach there using cameras
for the very first time and they’re
taking the most extraordinary pictures
one of the important things we do is the
students document their communities but
it’s also the country the significance
in having patients photograph Haiti is
that I think we get to see who they
really are when young Haitians go in to
a community into a market especially the
communities where they live but we see
things about people that we would not
see otherwise they have that access they
have the trust of their community
and they just get pictures that other
people just simply wouldn’t get and they
mean something by way of their
photographs we Outsiders get to Ricci
Haiti we get to rethink it and what it’s
about for me it’s the beauty of Haiti
the soul of Haiti and what what happens
in everyday life here and how beautiful
it is actually you know and I think it
shows in the photos it’s not a question
do we continue is just we continue
mainly we want to empower Haitians to
show what is true about them and to
create a new image of Haiti
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