On Assignment: Katrina Many Times Over – Lens

Michael Appleton’s photograph of 76-year-old Marie Carme Morency, receiving communion while lying injured in a wheel barrow near the collapsed Church of Sacré Coeur in Port-au-Prince, captured the Haitian peoples’ response to the overwhelming tragedy that surrounds them.

“I guess it’s because they have so much experience in suffering, hurricanes or violence, that they hold up with remarkable grace,” he said. “Unfortunately, they’re used to it.”