Tranbleman de Te

• Prize
• Photographer
  Matt Levitch, United States
• Website
  http://www.mattlevitch.com

On January 12, 2010, a catastrophic magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck the Caribbean island nation of Haiti. The powerful initial tremor, epicentered 16 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince, and a successive wave of aftershocks, devastated the densely populated capital and many other communities in the region. In perhaps the darkest day in all of Haiti's troubled history, the earthquake -- tranbleman de te in Haitian Kreyol -- killed an estimated 250,000 people and triggered a massive humanitarian crisis, clouding an already uncertain future for a deeply challenged nation.

Matt Levitch is a documentary photographer whose recent work has focused on religious pilgrimages and man's spiritual connection to nature, with projects taking him to Haiti, Venezuela, and India.