Of the wide range of images emerging from Haiti, I’ve found that these two audio panoramas from the New York Times helped me understand that extent of the damage and the subsequent impact on the people.
For a more comprehensive overview, this multimedia presentation about the Haiti earthquake from El Mundo is very impressive (Spanish language.)
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I started this thread as a place to collect all the multimedia material coming out of Haiti. It would be great if you could add relevant links and explanation in the comments below.
Hi, from the MSF UK offices we have done a couple of audio slideshows (when do we get a new, cool ‘podcast’ type name for these?) from interviews done over the phone with a surgeon who arrived a couple of days after the quake and with a nurse who is back, who was working when the quake struck.
Here: http://www.msf.org.uk/media/Slideshows/Audio/Marja_Haiti/publish_to_web/index.html
And here: http://www.msf.org.uk/articledetail.aspx?fId=surgeon_update_haiti_20100120
The second one got picked up (albeit edited slightly) by the NYT blog and the audio was used on BBC and Guardian online… Big thanks to duckrabbit for their support with this (and for the training)!
Thanks Pete, wish I could take the credit.
Great idea for thread John.
We’ve seen a lot of photography and video but not a lot of audio with pictures. The MSF stuff worked well. NPR have done some interesting stuff. Here’s an interview with David Gilkey which I’ll also plonk on the front page:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/01/david_gilkey_on_photographing.html
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/02/haiti_three_weeks_later.html A dramatic set of pictures from the Boston Globe taken three weeks after the earthquake in Haiti.
This should definitely be added to the list….
“Le Jour du seisme” – immediate aftermath of the quake filmed by Haitians themselves – by members of the Cine Institute film school, Jacmel
It’s powerful stuff – to me the sense of controlled, rather quiet panic was a complete surprise, not what I imagined it to be like at all. This should have been seen more widely than it was
http://vimeo.com/9071378
http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/haiti360_ver1/index.2010-01-27.html
Audio linked panorama from Save the Children in Haiti
http://simonbiswas.blogspot.com/2010/01/haiti-multimedia-piece.html
Some firsthand footage from Simon Biswas in Port Au Prince, Haiti, taken three days after the earthquake hit.
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/03/05/world/americas/20100305-haitimusic-audioss/index.html
Singing the Suffering of Haiti – NYTimes Audioslideshow about Haitian troubadour