Seasoned Photojournalist Julie Dermansky is new contributor on the ground in Haiti for Images without Borders

Photo © Julie Dermansky. All rights reserved.

I am happy to announce that we have a new contributor on the ground in Haiti.  Julie Dermansky is a seasoned photojournalist and great photographer whose work has taken her around the world, but she also spends much of her time in New Orleans and is a great friend.  When Julie decides she wants to be somewhere, she makes it happen.  Last year she spent 5 months in Iraq imbedded with the Louisiana National Guard, and last week she decided she wanted to be in Haiti, documenting the earthquake, and so she arrived there last Friday with the 377th TSC (Theater Sustainment Command) whom she has embedded with in order to cover Operation Unified Response.

Julie recommends the following video on YouTube. Please click here to watch on their site.

Her work has been published in the New York Times, U.S. News, The Tulanian, the Armenian Reporter and Imagine LA. She has been working on a series about  Dark Tourism including genocide memorials and sites of historic blight. Currently she is developing a project utilizing Tulane’s Natural History collections that will combine her post-Katrina series with her work on natural history and anthropology within a natural history context. The Chicago Field Museum has incorporated aspects of her project in their show Called “Nature Unleashed that opened in May 2008 and will travel to eight other natural history museums through 2010.  Dermansky has also been documenting the Louisiana National Guard at work. She published a book called “Under the Radar” after spending several weeks riding along with them and then joined them in Iraq where she was embedded for five months.  Two photo books of here work are now available . Julie was awarded an NEA fast track grant for her work at the Everhart Museum and is a Thomas J. Watson Fellow . She was recently named an Affiliate Scholar at Rutgers University’s Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights.  

Julie Dermansky's latest images from Haiti: here

For more on Julie, her website: here.  

Julie’s work from Haiti start on Images without Borders: here 

Thanks so much to Julie for sharing her images with us, and for her bravery and commitment to making the world a better place via her camera! 

posted by Laura J. Bergerol

 

Posted via email from Images Without Borders

Haiti: New Life Amid the Rubble (2/2/10) | Doctors Without Borders

via doctorswithoutborders.org

This just posted today by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF):

"Immediately following Haiti’s devastating earthquake Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams worked around the clock to meet the overwhelming demand for severe trauma or orthopedic surgery. At the same time, MSF also provided emergency obstetrics care for pregnant mothers, including performing more ‘routine’ life-saving operations, such as Caesarean sections.

"After the earthquake, 18-year old Djenny was one of the first women to deliver a child in Isaie Jeanty hospital in the Chancerelle area of Port-Au-Prince. Assisted by the MSF team, Djenny gave birth to a healthy little boy, Mike, and they have since been joined by many others in the now-bustling maternity ward.

"Before the earthquake, Isaie Jeanty hospital specialized in obstetric and maternity care. However, to meet enormous surgical needs, MSF, working together with staff from the Ministry of Health, began to offer a wider range of services, including orthopedic surgery, post-operative care, physiotherapy and mental health support. Yet, Isaie Jeanty continued to remain a referral centre for maternal care, with MSF helping deliver an average of 12 babies each day, more than 40 percent of which are caesarian sections.

“'We’ve delivered so many premature babies as a result of trauma,' says Eva de Plecker, an MSF midwife in Isaie Jeanty. 'Women are coming to us with pre-eclamspia or eclampsia - serious conditions exacerbated by stress. Though Haiti had an extremely high rate of eclampsia before the earthquake, the massive toll of this disaster has probably further aggravated the condition.'”

Posted via web from Images Without Borders

Site Updated

In the last few days Paul R.Giunta has helped us get the site updated so that images are searchable, prices are easy to see, and the Doctors without Borders logo and endorsement is visible. Many other behind the scenes changes will make shopping faster and information more visible. Painstaking work in adding meta-data to each image was undertaken this week by myself and Paul.  Vance Green @vancegreen has also come on board to bring in the student activists and do daily upkeep on the site.

We are preparing for our national and international press releases and want to make sure the site is fully functional and easy to use before we invite the world to be our guest. Meanwhile you can contact your local press and please email, invite people to join as Facebook fans, and especially please come over and buy one pretty thing as a gift to yourself and the people of Haiti.

Each day there is more good news and more people offering to help and participate in various ways. We have over 110 generous photographers and have started a waiting list for others that wish to be involved. Since we are limiting each print to 10, they should rotate quickly and everyone will be included. There is a great deal of interest generated thus far, and we want to make sure that it translates into sales and funds for Doctors without Borders. We can use everyone's help in promotion before the full press release hits. If you have suggestions or contacts about venues for promotion please contact myself @Ithili or @laurabergerol via Twitter with information.

We are trying to plug in the excellent ideas and improvements you have suggested as fast as possible. Please remember that Paul, Laura, and I have day jobs too that we have to get back to, but we are working behind the scenes as fast as we can at about 12-14 hours a day!

Last, but not least, we are pleased to announce that Lizzie Caston has taken on Images without Borders as a pro bono account and is donating her expertise in communications and media relations. You can see her work: here

Laura and I would also like to give special thanks to some of the very first photograhers that came on board and supported us when this project was just an idea:

Photoshelter  http://www.photoshelter.com/
Gareth Glynn Ash http://www.thecelticcamera.com/
Dixon Hamby http://www.idixon.com/
Tomas van Houtryve http://www.tomasvanhoutryve.com/
Martin Vargas http://www.33photo.com/bienvenue/

First check sent for Medicins sans Frontieres (dba Doctors without Borders)

MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES : DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS

Spoke with the person that handles Doctors without Borders/Medecins sans Frontieres major giving unit and they are thrilled about “Images without Borders” and sent us wire transfer info, logo, etc.  We are planning for a major revamp of our sites...look for that to come soon.  We will be integrating our sites and making sure that when anyone lands, that all they think about is buying images!

LOOKING TOWARDS A NEW WEEK

In a few days Images without Borders burst into the world, and no one is more surprised than Laura Bergerol and myself. A great deal progress has been made thanks to the work of literally hundreds of people. There have been problems to solve and happy synchronicity's. Our first donation to Doctors without Borders will be made early this week--as soon as they tell us how they would like to receive it!

Yesterday H.D. Connelly created a Facebook page HERE, which will help spread the word to buyers and collectors. Since each photo is offered in a limited edition of 10, this is a great opportunity to aquire a valuable addition to a photo collection while helping others in need.

Images without Borders has also recieved help from PR consultants at no charge and we hope to begin this week to utilize their suggestions. Press releases will be the first order of business. Sales are already being fulfilled and growing gradually. Considering that there has been no press coverage, we are very happy with the progress so far. All contributors please help to spread the world to those who are interested in your work.

A few people have asked how to order on the site. Just click on the photo you are interested in, add it to your cart, and keep browsing. You can delete anything from the cart and change your mind, as in any other online shopping experience, and browsers are not committed to buy until you put in your credit card number. All printing and mailing is taken care of through the Photoshelter site, one reason why so many professional photographers work through them.

Last, but not least, we have new images coming in from several photographers on the ground in Haiti. http://www.photoshelter.com/c/imageswithoutborders/gallery/IMAGES-FROM-HAITI-TODAY/G0000pSMSACQX_Ho/ The images are incredible. Our thanks and thoughts go out to Tony Cece (@tonycece) and Jose Jimenez Tirado.

Thanks also to Torsten Geyer for this Flickr post http://www.flickr.com/photos/torstengeyer/4298651634/ showcasing a stunning iPhone photograph.

These thoughts by E.G. Hamlin came in today via his post: It Could Be You or Even Me

I am trying to add links to contributor's websites on this page, and ultimately these will also be available on the main website as well, but there is so much happening so quickly that this will take place a little at a time.

Thanks to all the passionate artists who have leant their support and to Photoshelter, our donors of time, printing, and expertise, and to the Doctors working so hard in Haiti and around the world. I have heard that they should be called "Doctors without Rest!"

Stacy Ericson
Co-Editor Images without Borders

New Day, New Challenges, New Action

Photo © Tomas van Houtryve. All rights reserved.

I greet you with this eye-popping image from Tomas van Houtryve's work in Haiti.

If your cart hangs up when trying to buy, it is because your cache on browser is full. Close browser down to clear the cache and try again. This seems to be happening only to people who have been in their browser for a long time without restarting it.

For those interested in helping Images without Borders, we are asking that any supporters or contributors send email announcements to as many of their contacts as possible, concentrating on people who might be interested in purchasing prints, any media contacts, collectors, and people who care about the situation in Haiti.

Image without Borders is a great way to give for two reasons:  1) for their donation everyone recieves an item of beauty as a reminder. The only overhead is the smal cost of printing and even some of that is being donated, so 90% to 96% of the print price goes directly to Doctores without Borders.

Doctors without Borders is on the ground in Haiti right now, and our donations will help there as well as with their other ongoing efforts around the world.

"MSF's work is based on the humanitarian principles of medical ethics and impartiality. The organization is committed to bringing quality medical care to people caught in crisis regardless of race, religion, or political affiliation."
Doctors Without Borders/MSF: about
Tomas van Houtryve: website