A photographic journey in the post-earthquake landscape that is Haiti. Tale of the Plastic Slipper

I had gone to Haiti in April of 2011 with Rick and Kathy Land of Indiana who own the flat above the administration building at the Macombre Christian Academy – or what was the academy before the two story J-shaped building pancaked in The Earthquake. The only two people inside, including school founder Obinson Joseph, survived.

The photographs show the rebuilding of the school, the make-shift tents for teaching prior to their destruction by summer rains, smiling faces, hidden pain and local landscapes. For every smile know that this was the heart of the earthquake, that most of the buildings were destroyed and people are now without many family members.

The title speaks of hope from some other source, a prince to take the sufferings away. But in Haiti, trapped between rival countries, there is no glass slipper; nothing will be that good. Cheap goods and plastic trash dominate the landscape; indeed, the title photo shows not a plastic slipper but a gelatin shoe, as soft and destructible as the truth is in Haiti.

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