Stairs. To look at mountains beyond mountains. Zanmi Lasante, Cange, Haiti.
May, 2009

These stairs cascade upward from the Zanmi Lasante campus, and end abruptly at a circular concrete platform. The view from the top is grand, sweeping a full 360 degrees. But the climb is all about aspiration, and striving, and hope.

Struggle persists, as the Creole saying, Dye mon, gen mon – There are mountains beyond mountains – suggests. And it also implies that the passage is what matters.

I love photographing. I love the way a photograph can be hopeful, with light and dark, with tone and edge. And infinite – for every moment, many more, but none like that one. There are moments beyond moments.

Canon 5D MKII, EF 35mm 1.4L USM lens, post processed in Lightroom