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Two Months Before - Haiti - The Mountain People

Peter Pereira/4SEE

Two months before the tragedy, photographer Peter Pereira went to Haiti's mountains to photograph the poorest of the poor in Haiti.

"High on the mountain, somewhere under its thick green foliage exists a hidden community. Unlike the typical village with roads radiating from a central location, in the mountains of Haiti people are hidden from sight. No community center, no street names, just rough clay roads that wind up and down the rugged mountainsides. Smaller paths are cut into the foliage on the side of the main road, leading you into the spaces between the foliage where people have made their homes.

What I saw was at times wonderful, at times saddening. It was wonderful to be constantly greeted by welcoming smiles that radiated from these humble people, but sad to see how little they have, and how bleak their future looks. One occasion I walked onto a clearing to find a family washing their clothes, children playing with a well-used soccer ball. In a tiny room in the family home a young man was making a small chair from wood, in hopes of selling it to a tourist in the city below. In another instance, exactly one week before Thanksgiving back home in New Bedford, I found myself looking on as a mother sitting on the hard-packed ground cooked the evening's dinner for her husband and her three children with the help of a small fire and a large pot. This meal was a simple combination of corn paste and a soup made of water and beans. This is what they ate yesterday. It's what they will eat tomorrow."

Find out in Peter's pictures how Haiti's mountain people lived above Carrefour.

News & Publications

Peter Pereira featured in "Lens" from The New York Times
Peter Pereira/4SEE

Peter Pereira's experience in Haiti while visiting the country two months before 12th January Earthquake, is featured in "Lens", the photography blog from The New York Times.

The work on Haiti's Mountain people is also in "OneRèspe" a 40-page publication intended to raise money for the victims. He did. So did Mary Ellen Mark, Chet Gordon, Kari Hartmann and Lindsay Stark.

See Peter's work on Haiti's Mountain People here.

Metamorfose - António Luís Campos new book

António Luís Campos presents Metamorphosis, a photo album that reveals butterflies' inner world in a journey along 234km-long Mondego River. From the source, in Serra da Estrela, to it's estuary at Figueira da Foz, over one hundred pictures show an approach simultaneously aesthetic and scientific, focusing several aspects of these ephemeral insect's life. Merging art and science, Metamorphosis presents 140 pages of exuberant, elegant color and form in Nature.

See "Nocturne Butterflies" work by António in our archive.

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