Photographs & sources

Ray of Light on Cap Haitien, Haiti

2012-09-01 08:00

Beach In the North in Haiti (Monrouis)

2020-04-12 10:33:40

Fishing village in haiti

2013-11-16 17:33:15

Sail Boats in Haiti

2007-10-25

Small fish drying in the sun in the Haitian community of Caracol within the Three Bays Protected Area.

2017-01-26 09:45:50

A fishing boat being built in Cap-Haitien, Haiti.

Summer 2006date QS:P,+2006-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P4241,Q40720564

Fishing boat at anchor in Cap-Haïtien, Haiti

5 August 2006, 17:29:52 (according to Exif data)

Artisan à Kenscoff

2007-03

Supersize taptaps ply the streets

7 October 2012, 20:34 (according to Exif data)

On the Back of the Tap-Tap

2012-09-15 23:06

Port Au Prince, Haiti

2012-07-17 07:24

Overlooking the Streets of Cap Haitien, Haiti

2012-09-06 06:10

Marché de Fer (Iron market), the building originally destined to be the Cairo Train Station, hence the minarets, built 1889. Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

7 October 2012, 20:35 (according to Exif data)

The community of Petion-Ville, Haiti, gathered to watch the inauguration of a new market that will increase merchant safety and boost local commerce. Read the press release: www.usaid.gov/press/releases/2011/pr110519_2.html Photo by Ben Edwards/USAID May 19, 2011, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

2011-05-19 10:20

A community buzzes with excitement at the inauguration of a USAID-funded market. Press release: www.usaid.gov/ht/docs/pressreleases/savane_pistache_marke... Photo by Ben Edwards/USAID 5/27/2011, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

2011-05-27 10:07

Gardeners working in a rice plantation in Les Cayes Haiti

2023-06-13 12:25:39

Rice plantation at les Cayes Haiti

2023-06-13 12:57:40

Haiti: Artibonite River.

2010-10

A Haitian farmer works the field at the USAID-funded Sustainable Rural Development Center in Bas Boan, Haiti. Photo by Ben Edwards, USAID.

2011-04-27 10:08

Amid rows of cabbage, John Atis talks about the crop grown at the Wynne Farm, a mountaintop training facility for farmers in Kenscoff, Haiti. Atis is the Kenscoff regional director for USAID's Watershed Initiative for National Natural Environmental Resources (WINNER) program. WINNER is a five-year, $126 million dollar project to build Haiti's agricultural infrastructure, capacity, and productivity in a sustainable way.

2010-10-06

Theobroma cacao (young cacao pods - Haiti)

3/4/09

Photo credit: SOIL SOIL Haiti produces compost at two composting waste treatment facilities. The compost is then marketed under the Haitian Creole brand name, "Konpòs Lakay" for use in agricultural and reforestation efforts. SOIL's agricultural experiments help SOIL improve information and training for local farmers and assist with compost marketing efforts. To date SOIL has sold over 75,000 gallons of compost in Haiti. Learn more at <a href="http://www.oursoil.org" rel="nofollow">www.oursoil.org</a> and join the conversation on social media @SOILHaiti.

2014-09-22 12:36:23

Photo credit: SOIL SOIL Haiti produces compost at two composting waste treatment facilities. The compost is then marketed under the Haitian Creole brand name, "Konpòs Lakay" for use in agricultural and reforestation efforts. SOIL's agricultural experiments help SOIL improve information and training for local farmers and assist with compost marketing efforts. To date SOIL has sold over 75,000 gallons of compost in Haiti. Learn more at <a href="https://www.oursoil.org" rel="nofollow">www.oursoil.org</a> and join the conversation on social media @SOILHaiti.

2014-08-11 09:12:59

A fish hovers just below the surface of a fish farm at the USAID-funded Sustainable Rural Development Center in Bas Boan, Haiti. Photo by Ben Edwards, USAID.

2011-05-01 11:14

A Market on a monday in Delatte in the municipality (commune) of Petit-Goâve in Haiti.

2017-06-05 11:16:34

Women set up a market along the street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Jan. 20, 2010. VIRIN: 100120-D-1852B-0896a

2010-01-20

Haitians barter goods at a market in Titanyen. VIRIN: 100122-N-6070S-013

2010-01-22

Made in Haiti local

2011-12-16

Service de bibliothèque mobile de la Bibliothèque nationale d'Haïti à Port-au-Prince.

2018-07-06 12:29:47

Back-to-school campaign at École Nationale Mixte de Léogâne, 2 October 2024

2 October 2024

Une rue de la ville de Jacmel

2021-04-11

Une rue de la ville de Jacmel

2021-04-11

La résidence Hilaire (the Hilaire residence), a gingerbread house in Jérémie, Haiti (cropped in landscape).

2008-02-16 17:13:31

Dusk shot of renovated Iron Market in Port au Prince, Haiti by John McAslan + Partners

2011-03-08 12:00:23

Une oeuvre d'art des artisans de Jacmel

2021-04-10

Une oeuvre d'art d'un artisan jacmelien

2021-04-10

Sometimes I shoot on an 80mm lens to help viewers of my photographs feel the moments as I experienced them. Caches of micro-minutiae. Stolen moments amplified in real time with sounds, light and stored away in my mind. Kanaval is many things. A crash course of colonial history, ancient religion and modern culture. Kanaval is hot, sweaty, overwhelming. It is also beautiful, exciting and vibrant. I hope you can experience it at least once. Amazing. ... Haiti has a unique traditional carnival, Rara, that is separate from the main pre-Lent Kanaval celebrations. Rara processions take place during the day and sometimes at night during Lent, then culminate in a week-long celebration that takes place at the end of Lent, during the Catholic 'Holy Week', which includes the Easter holiday. Rara has its roots in Haiti's an deyò areas, the rural areas around Port-au-Prince. It is based on peasant Easter celebration customs. Rara celebrations include parades with musicians playing drums, tin trumpets, bamboo horns called vaksens, and other instruments. Parades also include dancers and costumed characters such as Queens (called renns), Presidents, Colonels, and other representatives of a complex rara band hierarchy, similar to the krewe organization of New Orleans Mardi Gras bands. Kanaval celebrations end on Mardi Gras, which is French for 'Fat Tuesday', also known as Shrove Tuesday. Mardi Gras is the Tuesday before the Roman Catholic holiday known as Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Lenten season, a somber period of fasting and penance that precedes Easter for Catholics.

2014-02-23 14:00:19

Sometimes I shoot on an 80mm lens to help viewers of my photographs feel the moments as I experienced them. Caches of micro-minutiae. Stolen moments amplified in real time with sounds, light and stored away in my mind. Kanaval is many things. A crash course of colonial history, ancient religion and modern culture. Kanaval is hot, sweaty, overwhelming. It is also beautiful, exciting and vibrant. I hope you can experience it at least once. Amazing. ... Haiti has a unique traditional carnival, Rara, that is separate from the main pre-Lent Kanaval celebrations. Rara processions take place during the day and sometimes at night during Lent, then culminate in a week-long celebration that takes place at the end of Lent, during the Catholic 'Holy Week', which includes the Easter holiday. Rara has its roots in Haiti's an deyò areas, the rural areas around Port-au-Prince. It is based on peasant Easter celebration customs. Rara celebrations include parades with musicians playing drums, tin trumpets, bamboo horns called vaksens, and other instruments. Parades also include dancers and costumed characters such as Queens (called renns), Presidents, Colonels, and other representatives of a complex rara band hierarchy, similar to the krewe organization of New Orleans Mardi Gras bands. Kanaval celebrations end on Mardi Gras, which is French for 'Fat Tuesday', also known as Shrove Tuesday. Mardi Gras is the Tuesday before the Roman Catholic holiday known as Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Lenten season, a somber period of fasting and penance that precedes Easter for Catholics.

2014-02-23 14:00:30

Sometimes I shoot on an 80mm lens to help viewers of my photographs feel the moments as I experienced them. Caches of micro-minutiae. Stolen moments amplified in real time with sounds, light and stored away in my mind. Kanaval is many things. A crash course of colonial history, ancient religion and modern culture. Kanaval is hot, sweaty, overwhelming. It is also beautiful, exciting and vibrant. I hope you can experience it at least once. Amazing. ... Haiti has a unique traditional carnival, Rara, that is separate from the main pre-Lent Kanaval celebrations. Rara processions take place during the day and sometimes at night during Lent, then culminate in a week-long celebration that takes place at the end of Lent, during the Catholic 'Holy Week', which includes the Easter holiday. Rara has its roots in Haiti's an deyò areas, the rural areas around Port-au-Prince. It is based on peasant Easter celebration customs. Rara celebrations include parades with musicians playing drums, tin trumpets, bamboo horns called vaksens, and other instruments. Parades also include dancers and costumed characters such as Queens (called renns), Presidents, Colonels, and other representatives of a complex rara band hierarchy, similar to the krewe organization of New Orleans Mardi Gras bands. Kanaval celebrations end on Mardi Gras, which is French for 'Fat Tuesday', also known as Shrove Tuesday. Mardi Gras is the Tuesday before the Roman Catholic holiday known as Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Lenten season, a somber period of fasting and penance that precedes Easter for Catholics.

2014-02-23 13:31:52

Sometimes I shoot on an 80mm lens to help viewers of my photographs feel the moments as I experienced them. Caches of micro-minutiae. Stolen moments amplified in real time with sounds, light and stored away in my mind. Kanaval is many things. A crash course of colonial history, ancient religion and modern culture. Kanaval is hot, sweaty, overwhelming. It is also beautiful, exciting and vibrant. I hope you can experience it at least once. Amazing. ... Haiti has a unique traditional carnival, Rara, that is separate from the main pre-Lent Kanaval celebrations. Rara processions take place during the day and sometimes at night during Lent, then culminate in a week-long celebration that takes place at the end of Lent, during the Catholic 'Holy Week', which includes the Easter holiday. Rara has its roots in Haiti's an deyò areas, the rural areas around Port-au-Prince. It is based on peasant Easter celebration customs. Rara celebrations include parades with musicians playing drums, tin trumpets, bamboo horns called vaksens, and other instruments. Parades also include dancers and costumed characters such as Queens (called renns), Presidents, Colonels, and other representatives of a complex rara band hierarchy, similar to the krewe organization of New Orleans Mardi Gras bands. Kanaval celebrations end on Mardi Gras, which is French for 'Fat Tuesday', also known as Shrove Tuesday. Mardi Gras is the Tuesday before the Roman Catholic holiday known as Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Lenten season, a somber period of fasting and penance that precedes Easter for Catholics.

2014-02-23 13:30:43

Sometimes I shoot on an 80mm lens to help viewers of my photographs feel the moments as I experienced them. Caches of micro-minutiae. Stolen moments amplified in real time with sounds, light and stored away in my mind. Kanaval is many things. A crash course of colonial history, ancient religion and modern culture. Kanaval is hot, sweaty, overwhelming. It is also beautiful, exciting and vibrant. I hope you can experience it at least once. Amazing. ... Haiti has a unique traditional carnival, Rara, that is separate from the main pre-Lent Kanaval celebrations. Rara processions take place during the day and sometimes at night during Lent, then culminate in a week-long celebration that takes place at the end of Lent, during the Catholic 'Holy Week', which includes the Easter holiday. Rara has its roots in Haiti's an deyò areas, the rural areas around Port-au-Prince. It is based on peasant Easter celebration customs. Rara celebrations include parades with musicians playing drums, tin trumpets, bamboo horns called vaksens, and other instruments. Parades also include dancers and costumed characters such as Queens (called renns), Presidents, Colonels, and other representatives of a complex rara band hierarchy, similar to the krewe organization of New Orleans Mardi Gras bands. Kanaval celebrations end on Mardi Gras, which is French for 'Fat Tuesday', also known as Shrove Tuesday. Mardi Gras is the Tuesday before the Roman Catholic holiday known as Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Lenten season, a somber period of fasting and penance that precedes Easter for Catholics.

2014-02-23 13:26:14

Sometimes I shoot on an 80mm lens to help viewers of my photographs feel the moments as I experienced them. Caches of micro-minutiae. Stolen moments amplified in real time with sounds, light and stored away in my mind. Kanaval is many things. A crash course of colonial history, ancient religion and modern culture. Kanaval is hot, sweaty, overwhelming. It is also beautiful, exciting and vibrant. I hope you can experience it at least once. Amazing. ... Haiti has a unique traditional carnival, Rara, that is separate from the main pre-Lent Kanaval celebrations. Rara processions take place during the day and sometimes at night during Lent, then culminate in a week-long celebration that takes place at the end of Lent, during the Catholic 'Holy Week', which includes the Easter holiday. Rara has its roots in Haiti's an deyò areas, the rural areas around Port-au-Prince. It is based on peasant Easter celebration customs. Rara celebrations include parades with musicians playing drums, tin trumpets, bamboo horns called vaksens, and other instruments. Parades also include dancers and costumed characters such as Queens (called renns), Presidents, Colonels, and other representatives of a complex rara band hierarchy, similar to the krewe organization of New Orleans Mardi Gras bands. Kanaval celebrations end on Mardi Gras, which is French for 'Fat Tuesday', also known as Shrove Tuesday. Mardi Gras is the Tuesday before the Roman Catholic holiday known as Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Lenten season, a somber period of fasting and penance that precedes Easter for Catholics.

2014-02-23 12:54:23

Sometimes I shoot on an 80mm lens to help viewers of my photographs feel the moments as I experienced them. Caches of micro-minutiae. Stolen moments amplified in real time with sounds, light and stored away in my mind. Kanaval is many things. A crash course of colonial history, ancient religion and modern culture. Kanaval is hot, sweaty, overwhelming. It is also beautiful, exciting and vibrant. I hope you can experience it at least once. Amazing. ... Haiti has a unique traditional carnival, Rara, that is separate from the main pre-Lent Kanaval celebrations. Rara processions take place during the day and sometimes at night during Lent, then culminate in a week-long celebration that takes place at the end of Lent, during the Catholic 'Holy Week', which includes the Easter holiday. Rara has its roots in Haiti's an deyò areas, the rural areas around Port-au-Prince. It is based on peasant Easter celebration customs. Rara celebrations include parades with musicians playing drums, tin trumpets, bamboo horns called vaksens, and other instruments. Parades also include dancers and costumed characters such as Queens (called renns), Presidents, Colonels, and other representatives of a complex rara band hierarchy, similar to the krewe organization of New Orleans Mardi Gras bands. Kanaval celebrations end on Mardi Gras, which is French for 'Fat Tuesday', also known as Shrove Tuesday. Mardi Gras is the Tuesday before the Roman Catholic holiday known as Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Lenten season, a somber period of fasting and penance that precedes Easter for Catholics.

2014-02-23 11:09:49

Rara musicians rehearsing for the 2020 haitian carnaval at CEDVIG ( Compagnie et Ecole de Danse de Vivianne Gauthier )

2020-02-23 12:16:51

Sometimes I shoot on an 80mm lens to help viewers of my photographs feel the moments as I experienced them. Caches of micro-minutiae. Stolen moments amplified in real time with sounds, light and stored away in my mind. Kanaval is many things. A crash course of colonial history, ancient religion and modern culture. Kanaval is hot, sweaty, overwhelming. It is also beautiful, exciting and vibrant. I hope you can experience it at least once. Amazing. ... Haiti has a unique traditional carnival, Rara, that is separate from the main pre-Lent Kanaval celebrations. Rara processions take place during the day and sometimes at night during Lent, then culminate in a week-long celebration that takes place at the end of Lent, during the Catholic 'Holy Week', which includes the Easter holiday. Rara has its roots in Haiti's an deyò areas, the rural areas around Port-au-Prince. It is based on peasant Easter celebration customs. Rara celebrations include parades with musicians playing drums, tin trumpets, bamboo horns called vaksens, and other instruments. Parades also include dancers and costumed characters such as Queens (called renns), Presidents, Colonels, and other representatives of a complex rara band hierarchy, similar to the krewe organization of New Orleans Mardi Gras bands. Kanaval celebrations end on Mardi Gras, which is French for 'Fat Tuesday', also known as Shrove Tuesday. Mardi Gras is the Tuesday before the Roman Catholic holiday known as Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Lenten season, a somber period of fasting and penance that precedes Easter for Catholics.

2014-02-23 13:31:22

Cathedral square in Cap Haitien, november 2012

2012-11-05 22:28:25

Cap-Haitien, Haiti

Taken on 6 May 2015

Cap-Haitien, Haiti

Taken on 6 May 2015

Route Nationale #3, Cayahande, Haiti

Taken on 8 May 2015

Route Nationale #3, Cayahande, Haiti

Taken on 8 May 2015

Académie Haïtienne des Arts Culinaires located at 48 Avenue Lamartinière in Bois Verna, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Taken on 9 May 2015

Cap-Haitien, Haiti

Taken on 6 May 2015

Flaming tires seen early on February 11, 2019, in the streets of Hinche in the center of Haiti.

2019-02-11

Protesters throw trash on street during a demonstration against President Jovenel Moise in Gonaïves, Haiti, June 14, 2019.

2019-06-14

Haiti's National Police guard remove makeshift barricades made of steel fences and tree branches protesters placed to block the National Palace entrance, Oct. 31, 2019. (Photo: Matiado Vilme / VOA)

2019-10-31

HNP graduation 2025

2025-01-10 11:06:36

HNP graduation 2025

2025-01-10 11:49:12

Goyard, Cap-Haitien, Haiti

Taken on 6 May 2015

Families carry belongings after displacement by violence

Published 20 October 2024; exact capture date not supplied

Families shelter in a school in central Port-au-Prince

Published 11 March 2024; capture date not supplied

Tents inside Gymnasium Vincent, Port-au-Prince

Published 8 April 2024; capture date not supplied

A playground becomes shelter in Tabarre

Published 8 April 2024; capture date not supplied

A makeshift displacement site in Haiti

Published 20 October 2024; exact capture date not supplied

Displacement in metropolitan Port-au-Prince

Published 11 March 2024; capture date not supplied

Families shelter in a boxing arena in Port-au-Prince

2023; source describes displacement during August 2023 attacks

A mother helps her child study in the Delmas 4 boxing arena

Published 8 April 2024; capture date not supplied

A mobile clinic at Place Clercine, Tabarre

Published 29 October 2024; capture date not supplied

Children share a school meal in Haiti

Published 8 April 2024; capture date not supplied

Volunteers cook school meals in Gonaïves

Published 8 April 2024; capture date not supplied

A visit to a school in Artibonite

Published 8 April 2024; capture date not supplied

A school building in Grand-Bois, in the Haitian municipality (commune) of Cornillon. The mountains in the back of the photo are located in the Dominican Republic.

2017-06-07 17:12:13

Goyard, Cap-Haitien, Haiti

Taken on 6 May 2015

Brightly-painted Tap Tap hauling freight on a Haitian road near the city of Jacmel.

2014-12-18 13:12:39

Kenscoff Haiti

2022-01-03 11:03:36

Colorful cityscapes in Port-au-Prince

7 October 2012, 21:34 (according to Exif data)

Nord Department, Haiti

Taken on 6 May 2015

Nord Department, Haiti

Taken on 6 May 2015

Photo showing view of mountains on a trail near Chermaitre, Haiti

2016-03-16 15:38:55

The border region between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. The border runs approximately horizontally through the middle of the picture. The photo was taken from Grand-Bois, in the Haitian municipality (commune) of Cornillon. The mountains in the back of the photo are located in the Dominican Republic.

2017-06-07 17:17:42

Landscape in Palmes in the municipality (commune) of Petit-Goâve in Haiti.

2017-06-04 10:06:12

Landscape in Les Palmes in the municipality (commune) of Petit-Goâve in Haiti.

2018-05-03 10:13:11

Landscape in Les Palmes in the municipality (commune) of Petit-Goâve in Haiti.

2018-05-03 11:42:07

Image of the town of Milot, Haiti taken from the path up to the Citadel.

2008-09-28

Les Cayes, Departement du Sud, Haiti, Hispaniola

2006-04-21 15:12:54

View on the road to Port-Salut

2023-04-26 11:45:15

Port-Salut, Haiti

2005-11-21

A beautiful beach in Jacmel.

2007-01-18

Bassin Bleu, en créole « Basen ble », est une suite de bassins alimentés par la Petite Rivière de Jacmel. Ce site naturel emblématique de la région est reconnu pour sa beauté et attire de nombreux visiteurs. Un joyau du patrimoine écologique haïtien.

30 octobre 2025

Située dans le Sud, Saut-Mathurine est la plus haute chute d’eau d’Haïti. Avec ses cascades successives et ses bassins, elle constitue un spectacle naturel unique et un site touristique majeur.

2025-10-30

Saut d'eau Mirbalais . Haiti

2018-08-24 14:57:22

Saut-Mathurine5

2019-07-24

Unnamed Road, Demarague, Haiti

Taken on 8 May 2015

Cap Haitien, Haiti

2012-09-06 01:27

Haitian Girl by the River

2012-10-30 23:57

Iron Market in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. marché de fer

7 October 2012, 20:39 (according to Exif data)

But the markets outside all a bustle

7 October 2012, 20:40 (according to Exif data)

Sometimes I shoot on an 80mm lens to help viewers of my photographs feel the moments as I experienced them. Caches of micro-minutiae. Stolen moments amplified in real time with sounds, light and stored away in my mind. Kanaval is many things. A crash course of colonial history, ancient religion and modern culture. Kanaval is hot, sweaty, overwhelming. It is also beautiful, exciting and vibrant. I hope you can experience it at least once. Amazing. ... Haiti has a unique traditional carnival, Rara, that is separate from the main pre-Lent Kanaval celebrations. Rara processions take place during the day and sometimes at night during Lent, then culminate in a week-long celebration that takes place at the end of Lent, during the Catholic 'Holy Week', which includes the Easter holiday. Rara has its roots in Haiti's an deyò areas, the rural areas around Port-au-Prince. It is based on peasant Easter celebration customs. Rara celebrations include parades with musicians playing drums, tin trumpets, bamboo horns called vaksens, and other instruments. Parades also include dancers and costumed characters such as Queens (called renns), Presidents, Colonels, and other representatives of a complex rara band hierarchy, similar to the krewe organization of New Orleans Mardi Gras bands. Kanaval celebrations end on Mardi Gras, which is French for 'Fat Tuesday', also known as Shrove Tuesday. Mardi Gras is the Tuesday before the Roman Catholic holiday known as Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Lenten season, a somber period of fasting and penance that precedes Easter for Catholics.

2014-02-23 13:00:48

Sometimes I shoot on an 80mm lens to help viewers of my photographs feel the moments as I experienced them. Caches of micro-minutiae. Stolen moments amplified in real time with sounds, light and stored away in my mind. Kanaval is many things. A crash course of colonial history, ancient religion and modern culture. Kanaval is hot, sweaty, overwhelming. It is also beautiful, exciting and vibrant. I hope you can experience it at least once. Amazing. ... Haiti has a unique traditional carnival, Rara, that is separate from the main pre-Lent Kanaval celebrations. Rara processions take place during the day and sometimes at night during Lent, then culminate in a week-long celebration that takes place at the end of Lent, during the Catholic 'Holy Week', which includes the Easter holiday. Rara has its roots in Haiti's an deyò areas, the rural areas around Port-au-Prince. It is based on peasant Easter celebration customs. Rara celebrations include parades with musicians playing drums, tin trumpets, bamboo horns called vaksens, and other instruments. Parades also include dancers and costumed characters such as Queens (called renns), Presidents, Colonels, and other representatives of a complex rara band hierarchy, similar to the krewe organization of New Orleans Mardi Gras bands. Kanaval celebrations end on Mardi Gras, which is French for 'Fat Tuesday', also known as Shrove Tuesday. Mardi Gras is the Tuesday before the Roman Catholic holiday known as Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Lenten season, a somber period of fasting and penance that precedes Easter for Catholics.

2014-02-23 12:27:00

Sometimes I shoot on an 80mm lens to help viewers of my photographs feel the moments as I experienced them. Caches of micro-minutiae. Stolen moments amplified in real time with sounds, light and stored away in my mind. Kanaval is many things. A crash course of colonial history, ancient religion and modern culture. Kanaval is hot, sweaty, overwhelming. It is also beautiful, exciting and vibrant. I hope you can experience it at least once. Amazing. ... Haiti has a unique traditional carnival, Rara, that is separate from the main pre-Lent Kanaval celebrations. Rara processions take place during the day and sometimes at night during Lent, then culminate in a week-long celebration that takes place at the end of Lent, during the Catholic 'Holy Week', which includes the Easter holiday. Rara has its roots in Haiti's an deyò areas, the rural areas around Port-au-Prince. It is based on peasant Easter celebration customs. Rara celebrations include parades with musicians playing drums, tin trumpets, bamboo horns called vaksens, and other instruments. Parades also include dancers and costumed characters such as Queens (called renns), Presidents, Colonels, and other representatives of a complex rara band hierarchy, similar to the krewe organization of New Orleans Mardi Gras bands. Kanaval celebrations end on Mardi Gras, which is French for 'Fat Tuesday', also known as Shrove Tuesday. Mardi Gras is the Tuesday before the Roman Catholic holiday known as Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Lenten season, a somber period of fasting and penance that precedes Easter for Catholics.

2014-02-23 10:47:48

Sometimes I shoot on an 80mm lens to help viewers of my photographs feel the moments as I experienced them. Caches of micro-minutiae. Stolen moments amplified in real time with sounds, light and stored away in my mind. Kanaval is many things. A crash course of colonial history, ancient religion and modern culture. Kanaval is hot, sweaty, overwhelming. It is also beautiful, exciting and vibrant. I hope you can experience it at least once. Amazing. ... Haiti has a unique traditional carnival, Rara, that is separate from the main pre-Lent Kanaval celebrations. Rara processions take place during the day and sometimes at night during Lent, then culminate in a week-long celebration that takes place at the end of Lent, during the Catholic 'Holy Week', which includes the Easter holiday. Rara has its roots in Haiti's an deyò areas, the rural areas around Port-au-Prince. It is based on peasant Easter celebration customs. Rara celebrations include parades with musicians playing drums, tin trumpets, bamboo horns called vaksens, and other instruments. Parades also include dancers and costumed characters such as Queens (called renns), Presidents, Colonels, and other representatives of a complex rara band hierarchy, similar to the krewe organization of New Orleans Mardi Gras bands. Kanaval celebrations end on Mardi Gras, which is French for 'Fat Tuesday', also known as Shrove Tuesday. Mardi Gras is the Tuesday before the Roman Catholic holiday known as Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Lenten season, a somber period of fasting and penance that precedes Easter for Catholics.

2014-02-23 10:45:49

Pignon, Haiti

Taken on 7 May 2015

Beach on Labadee, Haiti

2018

Kenscoff Haiti

2022-01-03 10:52:15

Kenscoff Haiti

2021-12-31 17:07:17

Haiti

2018-11-08 16:40:22