Lee Celano Photographer | Haiti Earthquake

Haiti Earthquake | Lee Celano

In Haiti, photographer Lee Celano has spent nearly twenty years documenting its people through political and natural crises. He first came to Haiti as a photojournalist to cover the 1990 presidential elections, won by Jean Bertrand Aristide. After Aristide was deposed in a military coup in 1991, photographer Lee Celano returned to Haiti regularly to document life under the dictatorship for Reuters. As a photographer devoted to the struggles of Haiti's people, he photographed the poverty, turmoil and violence that characterized the three years of dictatorship. Also in Haiti, Lee Celano photographed the arrival of US troops restoring President Aristide to power.

After the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, photographer Lee Celano returned to document the dire conditions residents have been living in. As a photojournalist in Haiti, he has made powerful, lasting images depicting life amid the ruins of the earthquake, and inside the camps for earthquake victims. Lee Celano's photographs of Haiti have appeared in publications around the globe, putting a human face on a disaster of tremendous breadth. And he has worked for several aid groups, including Save the Children, International Medical Corps, Plan Haiti, The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the Foundation for Progress and Development.