HAÏTI - AFTERMATH


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The catastrophic earthquake hit Haiti on January the 12th 2010, caused a number of victims about 222,000.
The city of Port-au-Prince has been crumbled, whole quarters have been razed, all the main facilities (hospitals, banks, police offices, prisons…) seriously damaged. Even the Presidential and the United Nation palaces. Even before this tragedy, Haiti was facing hard life-conditions: the poverty, the political violence and the organized crime were everyday emergencies. The earthquake had made everything just more drammatic. According to UNHCR estimates, nowadays there are about 1 millions and half of dispiace people, surviving in emergency camps without running water nor health services.

This working–progress photographic project is documenting the aftermath of the quake showing not just the days soon after the event: the devastations, the victims, the sacks, and the lack of the assistances, but also the hard living conditions of the desplaced people , the development of the social and political situation, the
rebuildings of the city’s facilities.
Riccardo Venturi has been already three times in Haiti in January, May and November covering the early days after the quake, the dispiace people living condition and the cholera out break and is preparing is forth to cover the political situation.

Biography
Riccardo Venturi was born in Rome in 1966. A graduate of the “Istituto Superiore di Fotografia” in Rome in 1989 he started his carrier documenting social issues in Italy and throughout Europe. Like illegal immigration and the rise of Nazi movements in Germany, or the early years of democracy in Albania. In the mid 1990‘s his attention was mainly drawn towards countries in conflict, such as Afghanistan, winning the prestigious World Press Photo Award in 1997.  In 1999 he won the Leica Honorable Mention for his reporting on the war in Kosovo. Ever since, he has travelled to countless countries at war, among them Somalia, Palestine (Gaza), Liberia, Sierra Leone.Over the last years Venturi has covered some of the most significant international events, such as the tsunami in Sri Lanka and the earthquake in Iran in 2003, alternating them with more personal investigations, like a long term project about the spread of tuberculosis throughout the world.  This was done in collaboration with the World Health Organization winning the UCSI award for photography in 2007 and in 2008 the” Marco Lucchetta” award.More recently Venturi published a book]project about on the subject of the identity of the Middle East , sponsored by the “Tres Culturas foundation” in collaboration with the Spanish writer]journalist Eduardo del Campo Cortez.
Riccardo Venturi is represented by the Contrasto photo agency since 2001.

photographs by Riccardo VENTURI

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