Award winning documentary photographer Colin Finlay, will be hosting a live online discussion tomorrow, (Thursday, February 4th) at 10 AM Pacific Standard Time. The discussion is for members of the Western Digital Storage Group on the LinkedIn social network. Colin will discuss his work as a documentary photographer, his upcoming trip to Haiti with the International Medical Corps and answer questions from members of the LinkedIn Western Digital Storage Group.
Colin Finlay is a member of Western Digital’s Creative Masters photography team. He has been a documentary photographer for over 17 years, has traveled the world many times over and is a, “six-time winner of the Pictures of the Year International honors for his coverage of war and conflict, disappearing traditions, the environment in both its glory and its devastation, genocide, famine, religious pilgrimage and global cultures.” His trip to Haiti later this month will be sixth time there since 1991.
Everyone reading this is encouraged to visit Colin Finlay’s Creative Masters page to experience his diverse body of sensitive photography. If you’d like to participate in the discussion, please login or register at LinkedIn and join the Western Digital Storage Group.
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Photo © Colin Finlay 2010
“There was a tiny hamlet, maybe six hours outside Port au Prince, filled with the ghosts of small children. The whole area, not just the village, had been isolated by the Cedras regime, and now three-quarters of the town’s children had died in a mumps epidemic. Their parents had voted for Aristide in the previous election, and those votes — officially registered in Port au Prince — had cost them dearly under the current military dictatorship. Add the U.S. embargo, and the people were virtually cut off from the capitol.
The village leader had lost three children of his own; two in one day, and a third he had carried on his back all the way down a long, treacherous road to a health clinic that had been closed. The military, weeks before, had cleared out all medicine and equipment and taken it back to Port au Prince — more punishment for their Aristide vote. He made the long trek back to his village — with child on his back — where she later died.
Now his son — his last child — was sick. This portrait shows this child clutching the hand of his father. My eyes locked with the village leader for quite some time and knew what he said was very important. I asked my interpreter what he said and his response was, “please tell the world we are the ones who are suffering.”
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