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First Place
Jan Grarup
Freelance

"HAITI EARTHQUAKE"

Second Place
Peter Kollanyi
MTI

"MARKS OF A CATASTROPHE - TOXIC SLUDGE SPILL IN HUNGARY"

Third Place
Kemal Jufri
Panos / Polaris

"WRATH OF THE FIRE MOUNTAIN"

Award of Excellence
Daniel Beltra
Greenpeace

"GULF OIL SPILL"

Award of Excellence
Adrees Latif
Reuters

"PAKISTAN FLOODS"

Award of Excellence
Michael Robinson Chavez
Los Angeles Times

"MAREMOTO: CHILE's TRAGIC TSUNAMI AND QUAKE"

Award of Excellence
Riccardo Venturi
Freelance

"HAITI AFTERMATH"

Award of Excellence
Riccardo Venturi
Freelance


"Haiti Aftermath"

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The catastrophic earthquake hit Haiti on January the 12th 2010, caused a number of victims about 222,000. The city of Port-au-Prince has been crumbled, whole quarters have been razed, all the main facilities (hospitals, banks, police offices, prisons...) seriously damaged. Even the Presidential and the United Nation palaces. Even before this tragedy, Haiti was facing hard life-conditions: the poverty, the political violence and the organized crime were everyday emergencies. The earthquake had made everything just more drammatic. According to UNHCR estimates, nowadays there are about 1 millions and half of dispiace people, surviving in emergency camps without running water nor health services.

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The old colonial market bulding putting on fire by the looters some days after the quake, a child watching.

 
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