No boys land, a photo from Centre, North

Photographer's Note

There is a strip of land a few miles wide between Haiti and the Dominican Republic that doesn't seem to belong to anyone. The area is sparsely inhabited and the roads (goat paths) along the border wander back and forth between the two countries heeding terrain more than politics. These two boys were carrying a bag of charcoal to their home perched on the steep mountainside. (Check out the two-tone shoes.)

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fabEarth (283) 2005-04-24 2:15

We all Have good camera and lots of luxury stuf... But the tow boys there... Only have access to the thing we have put in the garbage here...

I like the contrast with the back ground... Add more emotion to the rest of the pic, also good choice to use black and white !

philip_coggan (11) 2005-04-27 3:08

Good note. The photos quite good, but not as good as it could be. Taking a portrait of someone head-on looking into the camera is about the hardest way of all. Take this photo, just to get the subject used to you. But then let them go back to whatever they were doing, and take more - many more. The subject will be accustomed to your presence and to the photo-taking, and, more miportant, will be doing something. (In this case, carrying charcoal bags).

langaloo (489) 2005-12-10 4:15

Great photo-reportage picture. It has not changed, in thirty years. I was there, in 1976, and the mountains were already as bald as they are on your picture, due to cutting the trees for 400 years for cooking, and never planting them back, and when it rains, woosch... every goes rolling down the mountains to the sea-shore, where the surplus of earth kills aquamarine-life. Haïti-Chérie...