TARIQ ZAIDI, GREAT BRITAIN
HAITI: PRESERVING DIGNITY IN THE FACE OF HARDSHIP
Dancing without a parquet dance floor, crossing garbage dumps on the way to school, dreaming of running a nail studio, learning in corrugated iron shacks, singing in a church without a roof, laughing at the cramped living conditions: British photographer Tariq Zaidi does not cling to the cliché of “poor but happy”. However, with his pictures taken in the biggest slum in Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince, he wants to show the persevering vigor of people who have to live under such conditions.

© Tariq Zaidi, United Kingdom (Caters News Agency, Getty Images)
An estimated 80,000 live in the shacks that form Jalousie, the slum that clings to the steep slopes of the city: without running water, without waste collection and with intermittent electricity. Zaidi encountered a special sense of community here, and children full of hope and ambition.
Curriculum Vitae: Tariq Zaidi (Caters News Agency, Getty Images)

© Tariq Zaidi