My photos from Haiti by Jacob Holdt

 
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My trip to Haiti

I had a week off from my lectures in America and decided to go to Haiti - partly to see the American invasion to liberate the country from it's dictatorship and partly because my house mate had adopted a child from Haiti and I wanted to see where Mario came from. After a night in expensive Hotel Olafson costing me $60 - the equivalent of a year's income for most natives - I found one of the poorest families in the slum Cite Solei and gave it $60 a night to live with them. While I stayed with the family among tin roof shacks already under water, the hurricane Gordon came along. For 3 days I was locked inside with the family with water rising to the edge of the bed which I shared with 3 women - one mentally ill and chained to a rock - while people were dying all around us.  It was so dark most days that I could hardly photograph with the only 5,6 lens I had brought with me since in the rush from NY I had not been thinking about photographing. However, before the hurricane I took a two day trip trough the countryside to Jacmel and also was invited to a couple of parties among the rich living in the hills around Port-Au-Prince and had never themselves seen the slums in Cite Solei below them.

 
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