Last week the new "We Are the World" video, dedicated to Haiti, aired during the Opening Ceremony of the Winter Olympics, and I'm really proud to have been a part of the experience. A key component of the project is a group of Haitian students from the
Posted February 3, 2010 | 14:39:16 (EST)
When I left Port-au-Prince, after 18 days of witnessing the most distressing and inspiring examples of the human condition I had ever seen, I knew I'd return one day, I just didn't think it would be so soon.
When I got back to Brooklyn there was a message waiting...
Posted January 28, 2010 | 14:37:30 (EST)
Eighteen miles outside of Port-au-Prince, the coastal city of Leogane lies in ruins. The epicenter of the 7.0 quake, Leogane's dead number somewhere between 30,000-40,000, with 80-90% of its buildings completely destroyed. There is one building which still stands strong, surrounded by a makeshift tent city housing 4,000 displaced inhabitants,...
Posted January 20, 2010 | 15:00:33 (EST)
Greetings from the UN compound in Port-au-Prince.
I'm here working as a cameraman for Mihalis Gripiotis, a friend, who is the foreign correspondent for Greek Public Television [basically the Greek BBC]. We flew into Santo Domingo 36 hours after the earthquake, where we arranged for a car...
Posted February 15, 2010 | 12:19:13 (EST)