Introducing my Haitian students....

It is taking me a lot longer to post and edit my Haitian students photos than it did with my other workshops in the past. So much has been going on and as always never enough time to do anything. I am almost done editing the children's photos now and have just gone back to the recorded conversation I had with John the director and cofounder of Project Papillon about the projects he has been running, the back ground of the children and his dreams for his projects.

The photography workshop with the Haitian children ran a bit differently than the ones I have done with the children from Cambodia and Nicaragua. The Haitian children only had three days to shoot their images. I gave them less structure, but critique their captured images along the way by looking at their viewfinder with them.

James will be the first student whose work I will showcase from Project Papillon. James is 11 years old and he and his younger brother, Emmanuel have been with Project Papillon for two years now. They are both HIV positive and before being hospitalized for HIV complications, James was living in the slums with his HIV positive mother and their older sister. James goes to the hospital every week. His health is very fragile and John have hired a worker who works for James specifically to take him to hospital anytime of the day.

Here you can see a photo captured by John of James when he was being hospitalized two years before coming into Project Papillon. Down at the bottom is my capture of James.