Thomas Kern’s Haiti

Thomas Kern’s Haitian images are first of all reactive. The German-speaking Swiss photographer, aged 51, traveled to the island for the first time in 1997, on assignment from Du magazine. Shortly thereafter, he moved to the States. He quickly felt uncomfortable with the stereotypes reported by the American media  on the permanent state of chaos in Haiti: the political unrest, the burning tires, and the natural disasters culminating in the devastating earthquake of 2010