Global Press Journal Connections: The World in Photos

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Rudline Lundi performs mime during a Mass at her church in the Thor le Volant neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. She and other dancers acted out the words spoken during the Mass. “It’s my way of thanking God for his grace toward me,” says Lundi.

Photo by Anne Myriam Bolivar

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

In Port-au-Prince, Haiti, artist Junior Pierre (left) teaches Nickeila Yamilé to make pottery, as part of a program to develop artistic talent among young people. The program was organized by Office National de l’Artisanat (ONART), the arts branch of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor.

Photo by Marie Michelle Felicien

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Jessika Jacques and Garvens Reby play ludo, a board game, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The two were participating in a traditional-game day organized by ethnology students at the State University of Haiti.

Photo by Anne Myriam Bolivar

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Chanel Francisco Fortunado, 24, participates in Festi Graffiti, a graffiti festival in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Francisco Fortunado has been a graffiti artist since the age of 14.

Photo by Anne Myriam Bolivar

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Kerlie Prédélus, 24, rides a horse for the first time, with instruction from Fritzner Coriolan, at Wynne Farm Ecological Reserve in the Port-au-Prince commune of Kenscoff, Haiti. Coriolan has been a riding teacher for 15 years, showing people how to enjoy horses beyond their use as beasts of burden.

Photo by Marie Michelle Felicien

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Ali Kenthia Jean (left), 11, and Mitch Ricarlens Antoine, 15, raise the Haitian flag at Collège Frère Raymond, a private school in the Port-au-Prince commune of Carrefour. Every morning, the students gather around the flag and sing “La Dessalinienne,” Haiti’s national anthem.

Photo by Anne Myriam Bolivar

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Girbson Bijou entertains wedding guests in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Bijou, who also works as an information technology manager, started his group, Mémorial Band, in 2016.

Photo by Anne Myriam Bolivar

Carrefour, Haiti

Melissa Eximond, 17, a blue belt, trains under instructor Tales Joseph during a karate class at the Association d'art martial Shotokan karate do d'haiti, a martial arts school in Carrefour, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The school offers classes for children ages 6 to 18, and it tests them every four months for a chance to advance to the next colored belt as well as to help them prepare for national competitions.

Photo by Anne Myriam Bolivar

Damassin, Haiti

Elyores Senat, 33, picks a coconut from the very top of a tree in Damassin, Haiti. Senat has been doing this work since age 12. He picks the fruit for a farm owner, who pays him in coconuts, which Senat can later sell. He enjoys the job and sees it as a way to give back to his community, whose residents use coconuts in a variety of foods.

Photo by Anne Myriam Bolivar

Carrefour, Haiti

Jackson Jean, 30, draws portraits at his home in Carrefour, a neighborhood in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince. Jean, who discovered his artistic talent when he was a little boy, started selling sketches in 2009. Local customers often give his portraits as gifts.

Photo by Marie Michelle Felicien

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

In the commune of Turgeau in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, conservator Franck Louissaint (foreground), 69, and his trainee Marc Gerard Estimé restore a 1988 painting by Edouard Duval-Carrié that depicts heroes of Haitian independence. Louissaint, who is a painter himself, has been restoring art since the 2010 earthquake, which left many works of cultural heritage damaged or destroyed.

Photo by Marie Michelle Felicien

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

A crowd in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, gathers around a “gaguère,” the Haitian term for a cockfighting arena, to watch and place bets. Cockfighting, which is legal in Haiti, is a popular traditional pastime found in almost every region of the country.

Photo by Anne Myriam Bolivar

Titanyen, Haiti

Willems Edouli (right) and other students play football during a break at their school, Mission de L’Espoir, in Titanyen, Haiti. Football is a popular sport in Haiti and is often played at schools.

Photo by Marie Michelle Felicien

Pétion-Ville, Haiti

Edwidge Ulysse (left), 19, and James St Ville, 18, compete in a pinge wrestling match in Pétion-Ville, Haiti. Pinge wrestling is a cultural event held during the Easter season for male competitors and in June for female competitors.

Photo by Marie Michelle Felicien

Camp-Perrin, Haiti

In Camp-Perrin, Haiti, agronomist Ganyelard Laurent, 27, prepares “medium,” a mixture of powdered animal droppings and soil that helps plants develop stronger roots. Agronomy is the science of plants and crop cultivation.

Photo by Marie Michelle Felicien

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

In Haiti, voodoo dancers entertain the crowd during festive celebrations dedicated to the voodoo spirits. Groups from different regions performed traditional folk dances during this event, in which practitioners gave thanks to the voodoo spirits.

Photo by Anne Myriam Bolivar

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Haitian makeup artist Jerry Benoit applies special-effects makeup to Claudens Thermé for a parade to protest violence in Port-au-Prince. Benoit and other artists use parades and carnivals to show off their creativity.

Photo by Anne Myriam Bolivar

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Gina Saint Fleur, 40, does laundry at the river Diegue at Pèlerin 5, in Pétion-Ville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. For eight years, Saint Fleur has relied on washing laundry as her main source of income, and her clients are saved the time of doing the chore themselves.

Photo by Marie Michelle Felicien

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Jean Raymond Philogène, 37, performs his job as a caoutchouc man, or rubber man, in Pétion-Ville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital. Philogène, who has been a caoutchouc man for seven years, repairs rubber products like car tires on a street corner.

Photo by Oxane Sylvestre

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Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Walgens Celus, 29, uses a razor blade on his paintings in Pétion-Ville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital. Celus studied painting for 16 years. He has practiced his own street-art style, which involves blending colors with a razor blade.

Photo by Oxane Sylvestre

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Samuel Saint Louis, 22, peels freshly cut sugarcane stalks to sell in Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital. Saint Louis, who has sold sugarcane for seven years, earns about 500 Haitian gourdes ($8) per day, which helps him support his two sisters.

Photo by Marie Michelle Felicien

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Junior Aimé, 38, a resident of Port–au-Prince, Haiti’s capital, disassembles a broken refrigerator to make charcoal stoves. For 24 years, Aimé has recycled refrigerators into charcoal stoves, which are common cooking devices in Haiti.

Photo by Marie Michelle Felicien

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Woodly Caymite, 24, a resident of the Carrefour-Feuilles neighborhood of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, uses a rotary tool to refine a sculpture. Caymite has been using sculpting as a therapeutic tool since the 2010 earthquake, which killed many of his loved ones.

Photo by Marie Michelle Felicien

Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Naomie Phillis, 50, sells traditional herbal medicine in Pétion-Ville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital. Phillis has sold medicinal herbs since the age of 9, when she helped her mother. She uses many local herbs and plants, such as chamomile and thyme (left basket) and ginger root (center baskets), to alleviate afflictions that include coughs, other cold symptoms and menstruation pain.

Photo by Marie Michelle Felicien

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