Haiti Earthquake: Your Pictures of the Aftermath

San Cristóbal Smile

Photograph by Your Shot user Glenn Batchelo

After the January 12 Haiti earthquake, many victims were airlifted to San Cristóbal in the neighboring Dominican Republic. National Geographic Your Shot user Glenn Batchelo photographed this boy, who had lost a leg, in a local hospital.

"When I asked him what he wanted, he said a cell to call his father and a handheld game," said Batchelo, a San Cristóbal resident. "Needless to say, I broke down and bought him everything—hence the smile."

(Also see: "Haiti Earthquake, Deforestation Heighten Landslide Risk.")

Published March 12, 2010

Under Pressure in Port-au-Prince

Photograph by Your Shot user Jeremy Lock

Hoping for handouts of food and water from a U.S. Army team, residents of Haiti's capital brave crushing crowds at a Port-au-Prince stadium on January 20.

National Geographic Your Shot user Jeremy Lock took this picture eight days after a massive earthquake had devastated the city (Haiti map).

Published March 12, 2010

A Patient Waits

Photograph by Your Shot user Pamela O'Connor

A young boy peers into a makeshift medical clinic in a photograph submitted by National Geographic Your Shot user Pamela O'Connor of Rochester, New York.

The boy was "patiently waiting his turn but curious nonetheless," O'Connor said.

"We were a medical team of doctors and nurses in Haiti to care for the sick and wounded. It was a life-changing experience."

Published March 12, 2010

Freestyling

Photograph by Your Shot user Daniel Cawthorne

Daniel Cawthorne of London submitted this picture of survivors of the January 12, 2010, Haiti earthquake to the National Geographic Your Shot Web site.

"These guys had made [their] own 'Palais National'"—National Palace, the Haitian  President's residence—"out of cardboard to live in at the refugee camp," Cawthorne said.

"They had just rapped about the earthquake for me and then posed for the camera."

Published March 12, 2010

Dust and Color

Photograph by My Shot user Albert Rudnicki

A bus rumbles down a dusty Port-au-Prince street 20 days after the January 12 Haiti earthquake.

National Geographic My Shot user Albert Rudnicki of Ontario, Canada, submitted the photograph.

Published March 12, 2010

Newborn

Photograph by My Shot user Albert Rudnicki

A newborn baby is seen 20 days after the January 12 Haiti earthquake in a National Geographic My Shot photograph submitted by Albert Rudnicki of Ontario, Canada.

Published March 12, 2010

Haiti's "Beautiful Side"

Photograph by Your Shot user Julia Kim

A boy fishes near the border of Haiti and the Dominican Republic (DR) in a picture by National Geographic Your Shot user Julia Kim of New York City.

"I had to cross [the] Haitian and DR border everyday doing relief work," Kim said. "I got to witness this beautiful side of Haiti."

Published March 12, 2010

Sagging Streetscape

Photograph by Your Shot user Melissa Langley

A quake-damaged street in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince is the subject of this picture taken six weeks after the January 12 temblor by National Geographic Your Shot user Melissa Langley of Manchester, New Hampshire.

Langley traveled to Haiti with a group delivering medical supplies to some "unreached populations."

"It was both humbling and a blessing to be in Haiti," Langley said. "The people were very welcoming and very happy to have us there to help. Some had not seen a doctor since the earthquake."

Published March 12, 2010

Refugee in the DR

Photograph by Your Shot user Glenn Losack

National Geographic Your Shot user Glenn Losack of New York City submitted this photo of a Haitian refugee lost in a slum in neighboring Dominican Republic (DR).

"Haitians escaped the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere only to find abject poverty in the DR," Losack said.

Published March 12, 2010

Helping a Haitian Child

Photograph by Your Shot user Carrie Evans

National Geographic Your Shot user Carrie Evans, of Warrenton, Virginia, took this photograph of her father, a retired internist, working during a trip to Haiti. Evans and her father were with a group doing missionary work in the north of the Caribbean country when the earthquake struck on January 12.

"My father is helping this dear Haitian child following the earthquake," Evans wrote. "Not only do the looks on their faces touch my heart, but their hands reach beyond the generations."

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Published March 12, 2010