Tag: education
Camp Discover
UPDATE: the book is now available Camp Discover 2013 edited by Pradip Malde today: Camp Discover children signing posters at the reception for the children participating in the Camp Discover photography exhibition at Stirlings Coffee Shop, Sewanee. Haylee Guyear: the most interesting rock, Camp Discover Photography Project, Summer, 2013 Healthy social structures rely on […]
Throwing Stones
Boy Throwing Stones. Zanmi Lasante, Cange. Haiti. 2007 Before sunrise, just throwing stones as far out as he could, from a hilltop. Stone after stone. Hasselblad 500C/M, 80mm Planar lens, Ilford HP5 film, processed in Pyro PMK
Jean Baptiste Accenat – Teacher
Jean Baptiste Accenat – Teacher. Board with Gash. Domont Schoolhouse, near Peligre, Haiti January, 2008. Teacher. Board with Gash. (Jean Baptiste Accenat) Domont Schoolhouse, near Peligre, Haiti January, 2008. Zanmi Lasante (ZL) has established over 50 schools in the mountains that surround Cange. At the time of my visit in January, 2008, this one in […]
Hanging Floating
Hanging, Floating (Auget Jean Calou and Marichelie Josef). Cange, Haiti. January, 2008 Auget and Marichelie hanging from a rafter, with their cousin in the background, echoing my act of taking a photograph. A photographer considers not simply the formal relationship between light and dark, but also and always how light and dark allude to what we do […]
Coleb LaForest
Coleb Laforest studying for a college entrance exam. Zanmi Lasante, Cange, Haiti. March, 2007 Another one of those pre-dawn ambles, but this time in Cange, in the central mountains of Haiti. On a hilltop at the center of Zanmi Lasante’s hospital complex, I came across Coleb studying for an entrance exam to medical school. Beyond […]
Denise Remi at Dawn
Madame Denise Remi, before Sunrise, Saut Mathurin, Haiti. March 19, 2007. Saut Mathurin is a village (more like a hamlet really) in the hilly country just East of a slim tract of all that remains of Haiti’s once-plush tropical forest cover (Pic Macaya National Park). It is a one-track village, and my bedroom window funneled […]