Daily Foto: Seeing one’s potential in a photo in Haiti

May 6, 2010   //   Daily Foto, Haiti  //  Comments Off


Phodographer Leah Hudson in Ibo Beach, Haiti, April 2009

“Merci, merci” was the refrain heard when volunteers with Dog Meets World took and printed up pictures for the entire school in Ibo Beach, supported by Haiti Outreach Ministries, along the coast about an hour from Port-au-Prince. Most of the students had never had a photo of themselves and for sure not in their school uniforms. We in the USA take for granted our access to documenting our lives in photos.

It is the ardent hope of Dog Meets World that by seeing themselves in a beautiful photograph, the students will see their potential more clearly.

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