Images from this series were taken in the immediate aftermath of the 7.0 earthquake that struck Port-au-Prince and surrounding areas on Tuesday, January 12, resulting in massive citywide devastation. An estimated three million people were affected by the quake; the Haitian Government reported that an estimated 230,000 people had died, 300,000 had been injured and 1,000,000 made homeless.
Julie Platner is an American Photojournalist based in New York City. She has covered the Gaza War, the earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12th, 2010, and the ongoing Drug War in Mexico. She continues to work on several projects dealing with human rights. She works to tell other humans stories from behind different lenses around the world. She believes that perception is everything. Our vision and dreams become our reality and determine how we engage with the 'world'. The possibilities of creation, advancement, peace and understanding are all around each one of us, all of the time. Even in the dark places. Some of her long-term projects include; the extreme right wing in the USA, Iraqi Refugees, and the AIDS epidemic in Washington, DC.
Her work for Haiti was published in the Wall Street Journal and she was awarded a Communication Arts 2010 editorial series award. PDN Annual 2010 awarded her work documenting a wind farm in Canada.
