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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Nelson Jean Philipe, 65, of Carrefour, a neighborhood in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, crushes stones to be sold to engineers for use in construction. Jean Philipe has been a stone crusher for 16 years and earns enough to support himself and his adopted son.
Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Jimmy Salomon, 27, a craftsman who lives in the Delmas, a neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, the Haitian capital, recycles plastic waste into items like curtains, bracelets and baskets.
Jacmel, Haiti
Berlotte Eustache, a clairvoyant, uses tarot cards to read the future of her client during a consultation at Kabic Beach in Jacmel, Haiti. Eustache does this in public, despite community taboos that associate her work with the devil.
Jacmel, Haiti
Steve Gerome performs in the streets of Jacmel, Haiti, during Carnival, a celebration held for several weeks leading up to Mardi Gras each year. Gerome is costumed as one of the “rope launchers,” who symbolize liberated slaves. They cover their bodies in syrup, charcoal ash or paint.