In January 1986, riots and demonstrations against the Duvalier regime broke out throughout Haiti, especially in Cap-Haitien in the north. Following a full day of peaceful demonstrations over the high price of food, starving Haitians ransacked a huge food depot for CARE, a U.S. aid agency. People covered the building like ants on a piece of candy, despite the efforts of the Haitian army and police to drive them back as with a boy who tried to pull a box of food from beneath a shuttered door. One week later, the thirty-year Duvalier family dictatorship fell and Jean-Claude Duvalier fled with his family and loyal officers into exile with the help of the United States. Framed print.
In January 1986, riots and demonstrations against the Duvalier regime broke out throughout Haiti, especially in Cap-Haitien in the north. Following a full day of peaceful demonstrations over the high price of food, starving Haitians ransacked a huge food depot for CARE, a U.S. aid agency. People covered the building like ants on a piece of candy, despite the efforts of the Haitian army and police to drive them back as with a boy who tried to pull a box of food from beneath a shuttered door. One week later, the thirty-year Duvalier family dictatorship fell and Jean-Claude Duvalier fled with his family and loyal officers into exile with the help of the United States.
A vodou priest holds a vodou ceremony to Baron Samedi, a member of the the vodou spirits of death family, in the National Cemetery in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1988.
Haitian Army General Henri Namphy appears on Haitian national television after taking over the elected government in late May 1988, overthrowing elected president Lesly Manigat.
Supporters of presidential candidate Jean Bertrand Aristide, a former priest, celebrate his victory at the polls in December 1990 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Over 85% of the voting public elected the firebrand priest, despite the attacks by renegade bands of men determined to stop the polling.
A Haitian boy sulks outside the makeshift plywood hut he shares with his family in a tent camp in the center of Port-au-Prince after his mother admonished him for not doing his chores in May 2010. He and as many as one million Haitians were left homeless following a massive earthquake that struck Haiti in January 2010, killing over 350,000 people. Framed print.
A boy sulks outside the makeshift hut where he lives with his family and hundreds of other Haitians in a tent city in the Champs de Mars, the main plaza across from the toppled National Palace several months after a massive earthquake struck Haiti, killing over 350,000 and leaving more than one million homelss, in Port-au-Prince in April 2010.
Three street boys wake up to the morning light in an abandoned vodou temple where they sleep at night in a slum called Tokyo in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 1987.
A Haitian bows to newly-inaugurated President Lesly Manigat during an inaugural reception at the National Palace on February 7, 1988 in Pt-au-Prince. Voter turnout was low but Manigat was installed by the military anyway. Standing at guard, a Haitian commander holds an uzi as a show of force. Four months later, Manigat was overthrown in a military coup d’etat, showing that Haiti was still under the gun of the military.
Rubble of collapsed buildings fill a downtown street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, two weeks after a massive earthquake hit the impoverished island killing over 350,000 people and leaving over one million homeless. Most of the downtown was destroyed as well as neighborhoods throughout the hilly capital city.
A Haitian boy watches fireman race across street to help douse fires after Haitians set downtown Port-au-Prince, the capital, on fire in protest of perceived rigged presidential elections in January 1988. Elections in November 1987 were cancelled due to terrible widespread violence. The army put forward Lesly Manigat, who won the elections despite a very low voter turnout. He was ousted in a coup d’etat four months later. Framed print.
A Haitian boy watches fireman race across street to help douse fires after Haitians set downtown Port-au-Prince, the capital, on fire in protest of perceived rigged presidential elections in January 1988. Elections in November 1987 were cancelled due to terrible widespread violence. The army put forward Lesly Manigat, who won the elections despite a very low voter turnout. He was ousted in a coup d’etat four months later.
Haitian President-elect Jean-Bertrand Aristide leans in a doorway of his orphanage in the center of Port-au-Prince after the building was firebombed, killing four of the boys who were sleeping inside, just a week or two before he was inaugurated.
A Haitian woman pleads with American military to help her with her sick mother in the bidonville of Rabato outside Gonaives, Haiti, weeks after a massive earthquake struck the impoverished country.
Philomene, a young Haitian schoolgirl, poses for a portrait against the school wall in her village of Beauchamps, in the dry northwest of Haiti in May 1988. Philomene embodies the singular beauty and pride of her people.
Philomene, a young Haitian schoolgirl, poses for a portrait against the school wall in her village of Beauchamps, in the dry northwest of Haiti in May 1988. Philomene embodies the singular beauty and pride of her people.
A Haitian peasant farm wife and her children pose proudly for a family portrait they requested in the small village of Duverger, near Fond des Negres in southern Haiti. May 1988. Framed print.
A Haitian peasant woman and her children pose for a formal portrait in front of their small home in Duverger, a small farming village in southern Haiti, 1988.
