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Mme. Andre

Day 363/365

* One of my favorite shots from the portraits I took for some Haitian families. Just loved this older lady. Her face just has so many stories etched into it. I wish I could have sat down and talked to her all day, but my Creole isn't so good. She had a bandage on her knee and could barely walk, but somehow she made it to the shoot location. In Haiti there are 4 means of transportation - by foot, donkey, tap-tap taxi (A modified pickup truck bed made to sit about 20 people), or motorcyle taxi (more expensive and carries up to 2 passengers hugging the driver).

I originally offered this thinking I'd be taking portraits for 50-100 families. It quickly grew to 190. Am providing them with free framed 8x10 pictures so the costs went up very quickly. Now I'm scrambling to get more funding for it. So far people have been very generous in providing money for this to help me offset my costs. If I have to make up the rest of the costs it'll be fine with me. Just seeing them happy to get a picture is payment enough for me.

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Uploaded on Jan 27, 2012

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thirst

Day 360/365

Haitian boy drinking from a water pouch.

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© DSPhotography / Dan Smith 2012

Uploaded on Jan 27, 2012

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look but you won't find

Former Cass Tech High School
Detroit, MI

* Old shot that for some reason popped up on my LR when I opened it today. So decided to work on it a bit and post it. This building was torn down in late 2011.

Uploaded on Jan 25, 2012

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