Charcoal Puller
Port Au Prince, Haiti  1996.

Despite the violence, the atmosphere of terror, daily life goes on. Here a man makes his living by selling charcoal, made from burning trees. Under Aristide, there were efforts underway to plant trees to begin to reforest Haiti. Now, people can ill afford to be concerned with tomorrow. Just making it through today as best one can, putting one foot in front of the other...