Saving Haitians from Tuberculosis

• Prize
  Curator Selection
• Photographer
  Richard Street, United States
• Category
  Americas
• Studio
  Streetshots
• Website
  https://www.streetshots.org

Working seven days a week, 12 hours a day, Dr. Megan Coffee directs a team of volunteer doctors and Haitian and American nurses who care for a vulnerable population in a country afflicted with the highest TB infection rate in the Western hemisphere. In two portable buildings and a tent surrounded by the ruins of Port-au-Prince, Coffee treats patients diagnosed with both HIV and TB. She -- and a constantly evolving staff of volunteer doctors and physicians -- save lives for pennies a day.

TB vividly illustrates the massive gap between rich and poor.

I am a bilingual, academically-trained historian/photojournalist (PhD. Wisconsin), author of a multi-volume scholarly history of California farmworkers. I founded my own business, Streetshots agricultural photography. Since 1979 I have worked as an agricultural photographer/journalist, defined broadly, in order to remain submerged in the industry that is the setting for my field of expertise.

Awards Maine Media Award for Photojournalism
Howard Chapnick Award for Photojournalism
Mark Lynton History Award
Best Agricultural Reporting In California
National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowship