This book celebrates Bellizaire's legacy in a never-before-collected set of photos and essays by Belizaire. There is nothing out there even remotely equivalent to this in covering the last forty years of Haiti. This book is the first published work of a Haitian who has witnessed first-hand a long, inspiring, and exemplary period from its beginning to the present: the major earthquake in 2010 that left over 250,000 dead; political upheaval that has bedeviled his homeland throughout its history; from Duvalier to Martelly; protests advancing freedom of the press and gay marriage. These are tumultuous images; sometimes shocking for their violence, their realism, their poetry. In first-person narrative essays together with the images, the photographer reveals what it was like to live these events from within. Collected for the first time in this shattering volume, this democratic epic will be seen as it should be: through Haitian eyes.
