"There's only so much you can do to prepare for something like visiting a Third World country, especially one with Haiti's history. I got great advice, but the sensory overload when we got off the plane in Port-Au-Prince hit me like a brick. It's such a beautiful, complex country and so ravished by politics and poverty, not to mention the earthquake. I couldn't take enough pictures or see enough of it. I wore myself to the bone with absorbing it."
"The everyday human experience is the greatest story ever told. I strongly believe God wants me out there making pictures because every person has a story, and these stories will resonate with other people. Just to bring out smiles in strangers, spur little concessions of compassion or even big humanitarian acts – that's why I shoot. The smallest act of kindness is worth all the frustration and sweat it can take to make a picture."
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centralight summer '11
