When it is your own family…
You must always attempt to understand the motivation behind everything. Behind everything, there is a reason. Someone donates a million dollars to a cause, there is a reason why that person…
Fortified storms…
When you’re on a mountaintop, you’re closer to the storm. . Stay tuned… -Noah D.
The land with the jealous trees…
It is easy to look at the shanty towns and slums around Port-au-Prince as a highly disorganized mess of buildings built haphazardly on the slopes of otherwise un-inhabitable areas. These…
Our international Kinam…
Morning coffee and a little work at the Kinam Hotel in Petion-ville. Oh, the hours spent drinking gallons of coffee in this gingerbread palace. Stay tuned… -Noah D.
Climbing back out…
The area around Mount Organise and Carice is a bowl of land. There are hills, but it is generally a plateau up around 1000 meters above sea level. To escape…
Coffee, coffins, and context…
Patching a tire in Haiti. D said once, after having experienced the joys of bathing in a river: “Everything just takes so much longer to do here.” But close to…
It grows where nothing goes…
The time that my journey takes is long and the way of it long. I came out on the chariot of the first gleam of light, and pursued my voyage…
Return to Hispaniola…
Lovely day for a drive across Hispaniola. A drive from Santo Domingo to Port-au-Prince, Haiti. It is bizarre how different these two countries are. They share a border, yet their…
In the beauty of the gulf wind…
When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,…
Still got it…
A highly underrated part of photography is the Decisive Moment. Street photographers talk about it a lot. Sports photographers rely on it. But, by and large, it is a learned…
Crossing a finish line…
Some graduate with one degree in six years (like me). Some graduate in four years with two. There’s a reason to be proud of D… I sense I will be…
Making great leaps to get back…
The mystique of Instagram and Hipstamatic is that it gives a little twist on the everyday life, the mundane normalcy, and with a little filter added, a whole new world…