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.