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Photographing Haiti's Turmoil
24 February 2010
Published in
Industry News
Photojournalists have been in Haiti since day one, documenting the aftermath of the 7.0-magnitude Port-au-Prince earthquake that ravaged the country on Jan. 12.
Among the photographers covering the disaster was Miami Herald staffer Patrick Farrell, who won a Pulitzer Prize last year for his coverage of 2008's Hurricane Ike, which devastated Haiti. Others, such as Washington Post photographers Carol Guzy and Niki Kahn and AP photographer Gerald Herbert, flew into the neighboring Dominican Republic and drove across the Haitian border from the eastern side of the island. Most photographers arrived within 24 hours of the disaster by small planes, carrying news crews and rescue aid...