On Assignment: “Silence and Submission”

Ron Haviv of the VII agency has been to Haiti at least 15 times. On arrival last week, he felt something new: the “overwhelming power of silence and submission.”

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/assignment-21/

Each time is a different experience. I usually am here due to some major force; perhaps an election, a coup, an invasion, a natural disaster. So they are all different.

But here in Port-au-Prince, the feeling in the first few days was something I had never experienced before, an overwhelming power of silence and submission.