Good assignments help photographers grow. On occasion, a story can change you in a profound way. For many photographers, Haiti is that story.
Years ago, I was a student at the first Platypus Workshop and Roger Richards was one of my team members. At the time, he was working for the Washington Times and had covered a number of crisis regions. He asked me if I had even been to Haiti and at the time, I hadn’t. He said I had to go. And he said, with an urgency in his voice, that unless I’d been there I couldn’t really understand Haiti.
