Thank You Edison and MOSCTHA.

SAN LUIS OBISPO, April 23 – I need to take a moment and extend a personal and heartfelt “thank you” to Edison Suero and the Dominican Republic based NGO MOSCTHA for their support and assistance during my last two assignments to the earthquake ravaged country of Haiti. MOSCTHA has provided me with transportation and logistical [...]

Haiti Medical Crisis Growing.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, April 15 – I couldn’t believe what I was hearing — “They were asked to leave.” This is what a group of volunteer medical personnel from the Spanish organization Huarralde were apparently told when they arrived to work at a Port-au-Prince hospital one recent morning. The group, which has been providing emergency medical [...]

Land Issues and Weather Slow Recovery in Haiti.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, April 12 – Three months have passed since the devastating Haitian earthquake, and daily torrential showers have begun to hit the region.  The trouble is, the start of the wet season in Haiti — and more significantly the hurricane season in June — brings a serious new level of concern for the estimated [...]

A Day in Santo Domingo

SANTO DOMINGO, April 6 – One of my great pleasures as a traveling photojournalist are the transition travel days, especially when I find myself in a part of the world I have not visited before. It’s an opportunity to discover a new city on my own terms — walking the streets with a camera, interacting [...]