The Haiti Project - Image Gallery by Larry Davis

When people ask me about my experience in Haiti as a photojournalist, I will usually tell them how deplorable the conditions are in the country and how I wish that there was something we could do to change these conditions. Never before have I seen such deprivation and suffering than that which I saw on my first trip to the small island country of Haiti.

As a part-time photojournalist, my heart was broken when I looked into the eyes of the Haitian peoples I was photographing. Just traveling to a country where people live in dirt and drink water from a trough, which runs along the road is bad enough in itself. However, when one has the obligation to photograph these poor people and must look directly into their eyes through the viewfinder of the camera, it really hits home in your heart.

It has been my intention through this photographic essay to open the eyes of people here in the United States to the lives of people in other parts of the world, who literally have nothing. When I speak about people living in dirt and drinking water out of a ditch, it is no exaggeration of the truth. The water supply in Haiti is contaminated by every imaginable parasitic organism and many people in the country are drinking this water to survive every day. It is my hope and my prayer that something will be done to turn this desperate situation around for these people. After all, they were born into the poverty they are stricken with. They did not choose to live in such dire straits...

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