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ON ASSIGNMENT: HAITI EARTHQUAKE 2010

  • The battered and bandaged face of a child bears witness to serious injury sustained by the earthquake's victims as she sits at the General Hospital in Port-Au-Prince. The overwhelmed facility is deluged with patients seeking care following the massive earthquake which devastated the impoverished country. © Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post 2010
  • Following days without food or water, earthquake survivors take goods from a store on the main commerce street in Port-Au-Prince as dust filled the air. Police would come to control the crowd but within minutes they would return to scavenge for items.© Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post 2010ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
  • Sylvia Frederic tries in vain to rush her fatally ill son Johnny Frederic, 26, to the hospital before he died in her arms in the back of a {quote}tap-tap{quote} truck in the Damien neighborhood of Port-Au-Prince. Still reeling from the earthquake, Haiti's misery was deepened by a cholera epidemic that claimed the lives of those who had survived.© Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post 2010ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
  • Phoncly Raphael bathes a group of men at Azil Communal Home for the Aging in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. Sanitation at the home remains a dire issue for earthquake survivors living in the community.© Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post 2010ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
  • Idamise Pierre leans against a tree, her withered skin resembling its bark, as she waits to bathe at the Azil Communal Home for the Aging. With weary resignation, the elderly have endured decades of Haiti's poverty and political turmoil and in their twilight years are now left with heavy hearts by the earthquake that eternally altered their lives.© Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post 2010ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
  • A tiny new life emerges as Destiny Ariel Dorival grimaces at her mom Nehemie Hilaire, 39, minutes after being born with the help of nurse Aluone Joseph in a makeshift tent serving as a maternity unit at the General Hospital in Port-Au-Prince. Amid death and destruction, the breath of life endures.© Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post 2010ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
  • Haitian earthquake survivors participated in a day of prayer at Champs du Mars in Port-Au-Prince, mourning deep losses and singing hymns to their God in a vast sea of suffering.© Nikki Kahn/The Washington Post 2010ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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