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Patrick Farrell: An Audio Slide Show From The Quake

Fri, Jul 16, 2010


Episode 5: Haiti Episode, Featured

produced by Ruth Morris and The Miami Herald

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by Patrick Farrell, courtesy of The Miami Herald

Click here to view the audio slide show.

Miami Herald photographer Patrick Farrell has been traveling to Haiti for years.  In fact, it was has evocative work about the victims of Haiti’s disastrous 2008 storms that won him the Pulitzer Prize.

In this audio slide show, Farrell offers his account from behind the lens.  He talks about what he saw when he arrived in Port-au-Prince the morning after Haiti’s horrific quake, and on several subsequent reporting trips.

“It’s such an important story,” Farrell says of the quake, which claimed nearly 300,000 lives.  “If we ever cover anything worse than this, I imagine it would be the end of the world.”

Farrell is also committed to keeping Haiti in the news. ”That’s kind of the trick,” he said. “They’re going to be suffering for 10 or 12 years from this same thing… How do you keep the attention there, and how do you keep people interested in helping?”

Click here for more from our Haiti Episode.

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Music From Episode 5: Haiti Episode

DJ Le Spam & Spam Allstars - Under the Sun Theme
Jacques Saveur Jean - Haïti Chérie

Romel Joseph - My Favorite Things (recorded by Hannah Sampson)

Notre Dame du Perpetuel Secours choir - Mwen Pap Sa Bliye (recorded by Kenny Malone)

Haitian Patients in Medishare Tent - Jesus, Thank You For Loving Us (recorded by David Chan)

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From Abe Rich's nephew...

On behalf of my family, friends and those that were close to my Uncle - thank you! It is truly a treasure to have the piece recorded and available for us and future generations to cherish. The story really captures his character, persona and spirit. Abe was a simple man, a man who struggled to survive during a tragic era in our history. His traumas and survival instinct kept him alive in Europe, Israel and in Miami as he worked till he could no longer stand up. As it said on his shop wall... "There is no substitute for hard work." I believe you and everyone at WLRN work very hard to provide us with wonderful programming and go above and beyond your call of duty. Thank you very much.

Shawn Rich

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