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

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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

 

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

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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.'”

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