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A boy and his father at the salt flats outside Gonaives, Haiti, 1988.

A Haitian voter in the Carrefour Feuille neighborhood of Port-au-Prince pores over the presidential and congressional candidates in the 1990 elections that brought Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a former priest, to power as president. Aristide was elected by 80% of the voting population. All over the country, citizens lined up into the night, voting by candlelight and braving threats from drive-by thugs who shot into the crowds.

A Haitian voter in the Carrefour Feuille neighborhood of Port-au-Prince pores over a ballot showing the presidential and congressional candidates in the December 1990 elections.  All over the country citizens lined up into the night, voting by candlelight and braving threats from drive-by thugs who shot into the crowds. Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a former priest, won the elections to assume power as president. Aristide was elected by better than 80% of the voting population.  December 1990. Framed print.

A vodou priest prays before a mural of Erzuli Freda, one of the goddesses of love, in a peristyle or vodou temple in Bel Aire section of Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1987. He wears a dwapo vodou—Creole for vodou flag or spirit banner showing St. Jacques or Ogou Ferail, the powerful war spirit. Erzuli is often depicted as the Holy Virgin.

A young girl dancing in her blue lace dress belies the sinister poverty and violence that resides in the dusty barren streets of Rabato, a slum just outside Gonaives, Haiti. Rabato is a scene of regular political protest and is thus the target of numerous slaughters and attacks on its citizens. But on this day, there was only the singing and dancing of this young Haitian.

A young girl dancing in her blue lace dress belies the sinister poverty and violence that resides in the dusty barren streets of Rabato, a slum just outside Gonaives, Haiti.  Rabato is a scene of regular political protest and is thus the target of numerous slaughters and attacks on its citizens. But on this day, there was only the singing and dancing of this young Haitian.  December 1990.

Box 1 contains thirty-three signed and dated 11x14 inch color prints on art paper.

Haitians watch as a big passenger bus roars through burning barricades on a Port-au-Prince street during widespread pre-election violence in the weeks leading up to the first democratic elections in thirty years in Haiti, November 1987.

A drummer beats out a rhythm as hounsis—vodou participant members of the peristyle (vodou temple)—dance in an effort to call the spirit of Azaca, the vodou spirit of agriculture, to a ceremony in a vodou temple (peristyle) in the Bel Aire area of Pt-au-Prince, Haiti, in 1989.

Haitians march through the streets of downtown Port-au-Prince the day after soldiers shot into a crowd of peaceful unarmed demonstrators, killing dozens. In protest, the people built small coffins and painted the names of all those killed, marched through the streets after a mass in front of the National Cathedral, and carried them to the cemetery in mock burials.

A Haitian policeman waits for an accused thief to reach shore at the harbor in Port-au-Prince, Haiti in 1990, after the man was caught in middle of a robbery. Once the man's foot touched shore, a second policeman at the side raised his rifle and shot the man, killing him on the spot. Justice and the lack of it has plagued Haiti for decades, and often takes place on the spot without charges or fair trials.

The body of a man sits in the alcove of a home along a well-traveled path in Carrefour, a poor neighborhood on the southern edge of Port-au-Prince, in November 1987, a few days before Haiti’s first democratic presidential elections in 30 years. All-night shooting sessions went on for several weeks prior to the elections. The unidentified killers displayed the corpse to warn people of their fate, if they voted in the elections. When election day arrived, the polls opened and closed in one hour after many people were massacred at polling stations. Elections were cancelled.

The body of a man sits in the alcove of a home along a well-traveled path in Carrefour, a poor neighborhood on the southern edge of Port-au-Prince, in November 1987, a few  days before Haiti’s  first democratic presidential elections in 30 years.  All-night shooting sessions went on for several weeks prior to the elections.  The unidentified killers displayed the corpse to warn people of their fate, if they voted in the elections.  When election day arrived, the polls opened and closed in one hour after many people were massacred at polling stations.  Elections were cancelled. Framed print.

A Haitian boy laughs as a dog sniffs around the fried pork and plantains he is selling in La Saline, a market and slum in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 1987.

A wounded Haitian man struggles in pain to carry a heavy beam through rubble-strewn downtown Port-au-Prince two weeks following the massive earthquake that struck Haiti in January 2010. Haitians who lost everything collected whatever could be salvaged from collapsed buildings to help rebuild their homes. Over 350,000 people were killed and one million were left homeless to live in makeshift tents made from bedspreads, sheets, and plastic, or whatever they could find.

A small Haitian boy sits in front of a painting of Jesus on the porch of his house in Jean-Rabel. May 1988. Framed print.

Lawyers for famed Ton-Ton Macoute boss Paul Vericain glance in fear at the reaction of an overflowing courtroom mob, after declaring his client’s innocence of charges for hundreds of murders under the Duvalier regime. Soon after the fall of the dictator in February 1986, several leading Macoutes were tried and imprisoned in July 1986.

The Maggie Steber Photography Collection contains thirty-three signed and dated 11x14 inch color prints on art paper and eleven large framed (33 1/4" x 43 3/4") prints. The collection documents photojournalist Maggie Steber's work in Haiti from 1986 to 2010.

A Haitian boy covers his head with his shirt as dirt and dust are kicked up by U.S. Marine helicopters landing in Gonaives, Haiti in October 1994, shortly before the return of the exiled President Jean Bertrand Aristide to resume power. Aristide was overthrown in a military coup d’etat three years earlier. After slapping an economic embargo on the country and watching the situation worsen dramatically, U.S. President Bill Clinton decided to return Aristide to power. Marines came into Haiti several weeks prior to the return to “clean things up.”

Reflected in bright plastic mirrors from China, Haitians walk past other imported products in a country market in Jean-Rabel, Haiti, in May 1988. Haiti is a market for many imports from larger nations. They import many products but export very little.