Haiti – February 2010
I went to Haiti within a couple of weeks of the Jan 2010 earthquake. I had gone with the intention of shooting the good being done to help the people of Haiti. I left with a feeling of pride and hoped that what I had done photographically would bring some good. The Haitian people have a special place in my heart.
The internal quarrel of how best to produce the images was eventually won by the video slideshow option – I voice annotated it. I hope you have the patience to watch it all, I felt it was a story worth telling:
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Haiti – An overview
One of the biggest hurdles we photographers face is the ability or indecision of how to accurately present our work. There’s so much that goes into each photograph, so many facets to each situation and so many stories. I recently gave a couple of slide-show presentations of my work in Haiti. I had just over 100 slides picked out to tell a bit of a story. The situation in Haiti is too complex to try communicate it in a short preview of images.
Having thought long and hard about how to adequately represent my work in Haiti, I went with Thorsten Overgaard’s suggestion of turning the slide-show presentations I’ve done in person into a voice annotated slideshow and put it on my website.
I hope you enjoy watching it as much as I enjoyed creating these images. Watch this in full screen if you can.
Haiti – an Overview from felix kunze on Vimeo.
A voice-annotated slide-show of photographs by Photographer Felix Kunze who travelled to Haiti after the January 2010 earthquake – work shows a variety of areas including the atmosphere in Haiti, living conditions of locals as well as work being done with orphans.
Felix concentrated on the good being done in Haiti, rather than taking photographs of death and despair, there is a lot of good coming out of Haiti.
A voice-annotated slide-show of photographs by Photographer Felix Kunze who travelled to Haiti after the January 2010 earthquake – work shows a variety of areas including the atmosphere in Haiti, living conditions of locals as well as work being done with orphans.
Felix concentrated on the good being done in Haiti, rather than taking photographs of death and despair, there is a lot of good coming out of Haiti.
Felix is leaving tomorrow (1st of March) to go on his second Haiti trip. To follow along, follow on twitter at www.twitter.com/felixkunze
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There’s a digest of the images used in the slideshow, but without captions here: http://www.felixkunze.com/cache/haiti-overview-images/
To see further posts from me regarding Haiti, click here. Be sure to check back on the blog as more content will be added from my Haiti trips.
To give, please consider donating to the orphanage I was working with: TheFutureOfHaiti.org or to help internally displaced persons survive the rainy season, go to Shelterbox.org Another fantastic organization that is also working with the Future of Haiti Orphanage is Helpfororphans.org
Anything you give will help.
Travel travel travel
The next month will see me in no less than 9 separate locations on earth.
I’m putting aside commercial work and other commitments to embark on a second photographic trip to Haiti. I will be working on several projects, this time in a more structured fashion. I’ll be out there with Help For Orphans International as well as working with some other projects – more on that after the fact. I know that I will definitely be photographing about 100 more orphans in the same style I did on my last trip.
There’s also tie-ins with media and radio.
My trip will start on Monday, 1st of March, I’m headed to New York City. There’s something really cool happening there that I can’t yet talk about, but will reveal in good time.
On Wednesday, 3rd of March I head down to Philadelphia, I’ll attend a Help for Orphans fundraiser.
On Thursday, 4th of March, we’re headed out to Haiti via the Dominican Republic. I’ll be there for about 8 days, at which point I fly to Miami to spend around 24 hours on the 13th of March in the Tampa Bay area and wrapping up edits and loose ends from my Haiti trip. Then it’s an early morning flight to LA on the 14th where I will spend about 72 hours. I’ll speak on a big radio show and podcast about my work in Haiti. I’m leaving LA on the 16th, arriving back in London on the 17th.
Meetups:
For people in New York, if you want to meet up, I want to get coffee or dinner on the 2nd. I’ll be able to tell you all about my exciting news in NY on that day, but only in person. Message me for details and to arrange coming along.
In the Tampa Bay area, I want to do a meetup after another event I’m attending on the 13th of March. It will be late night chats and drinks somewhere. Message me for details!
For LA, my idea is to have a bit of a social on the evening of the 15th. I’ll have recorded my radio segment and will want to hang out, probably in Silverlake somewhere (close friends will already know the venue). Again – message me for details.
After that I’ll be heading back home to London for just over 24 hours and then it’s back to Berlin, this time for some family engagements.
That means I’ll be back in London properly on around the 24th of March, probably feeling a fair amount more tired that I feel right now, but with great stories to tell and many many pictures to show!
Sorry for the ambiguous blog post, the details will flesh themselves out as my trip goes on – My ‘placemarkers’ right now are my 7 booked flights, everything will revolve around those and updates will come daily on my twitter page or you can head over to my Where is Felix page to get location based updates.