Caught in the Act

As I mentioned before, while taking pictures of Carnival in Jacmel, one of the Lanse Kod, or “The Rope Throwers”, who take sugar cane syrup mixed with charcoal and cover their bodies in it, got me in the face while I was traversing the rows of paper mache masks during the parade.  Well, a photographer [...]

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Haiti Carnival 2011!!! (Jacmel)

This weekend Jillian, Ben, Alexis and I traveled down to the southern coastal town of Jacmel to see what this whole Carnival thing was all about, and it was pretty amazing.  Hundreds of thousands of people were there to see what had to be thousands of hand made paper mache masks in one of the [...]

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A Day at the Beach

Jillian, Karen and I decided to take a break from the busy streets of Port-au-Prince and trekked out to Jacmel for two days to stay at our friend’s beach house.  Jacmel is on the southern coast, a three hour drive snaking through the mountains of Haiti, a tough feat considering you are avoiding roadblocks created [...]

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Too Cool For School

Well, look who it is!  Jillian, her mom Karen and I took a trip to the southern beach-town of Jacmel for a night, and Jillian is now a gangsta!  While having lunch at a beachfront restaurant, a woman selling hats payed us a visit, and Karen payed her for a hat.  Jillian on the other [...]

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