Editorializing editrix Julia once lived in Haiti, not far from the epicenter of the devastating earthquake. Remembering Port-au-Prince, Petionville, Jacmel and other locales that will never look the same again has been a source of pain and disbelief.
Our friend Jeff Antebi, a successful artist manager and music entrepreneur (Gnarls Barkley, Danger Mouse, Waxploitation Artists), decided to take a sabbatical from the industry not long ago, traveling and snapping pictures of some of the most fraught areas on earth, including Darfur, Afghanistan, Juarez and Haiti. He amassed an incredibly powerful array of photographs in Haiti mere months before the quake and is now using his images and testimony — which have been featured in Rolling Stone and Good Magazine and on NPR — to raise funds for nonprofits Oxfam and Doctors Without Borders. Prints are being made available (with proceeds benefiting these worthy causes) at London's Stolen Space Gallery. You can view Antebi's Haiti portfolio here.
Despite the deprivation he captured there, Antebi says he hopes that disseminating his pictures "helps Haitians be seen as the fantastic people they are. Or at the very least not just earthquake victims."
Round and Shiny will return next month.
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