photo essay: Ocean Morisset

HAITI IN THE NEW MILLINIEUM



In a six year period, Haiti has been ravaged by two natural disasters. In 2004 Hurricane Jeanne ripped through the coastal city of Gonaives, killing thousands. Then, on January 12, 2010, Haiti sustained a 7.0 magnitude earthquake that crippled the capital city of Port-au-Prince, leaving many Haitians dead or displaced. This essay in part documents the aftermath of these tragedies, and shows that while a global call for relief and change in Haiti’s politics has gone out (which is an undercurrent of the natural disasters), the situation for Haiti and its people remain precarious.


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OCEAN MORISSET is a Haitian-American self-taught Photographer specializing in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography. Ocean is a humanitarian at heart, most recently having provided medical relief only two months after a devastating earthquake ravaged Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Ocean more specifically describes himself as a Social Documentary Photographer investigating and exploring critical issues that affect people of the African Diaspora.