The Flog

Following the recent earthquake in Haiti and the consequent humanitarian crisis, photographic documentaries of the disaster have appeared everywhere, from the view points of professionals and amateurs alike.

Beside checking The New York Times’s slideshow, one of the main site gathering these news stories in photographic terms is The Big Picture, and Alan Taylor compiled shots from all agencies the day after the earthquake, then 48 hours later. Yesterday, NPR published these series of shots by photojournalist Jeff Antebi taken before the quake (via C-Monster). I saw that the Denver Post also put together a photo collection of the events.

So today, instead of a regular Friday Flickr Find, I decided to gather photographs taken by those who come along with Doctors Without Borders, an international medical humanitarian organization I have been supporting for a long time.

These series features shots from around the world, in countries where crisis take place every day and where every day doctors and medical organizers work their asses off to help people.

Thank you.

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Dominick Tyler, Womens’ clinic, Gondama, Sierra Leone, from the series Medecins Sans Frontieres.

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Jenn Warren, from the series Facing up to Reality, Southern Sudan, 2009.
Aidok Kenyche holds her 6 month old daughter Ngachiwun, who has pneumonia, as MSF Doctor Olivier Montigny administers oxygen, in the MSF Primary Health Care Center (PHCC) Pediatric Inpatient Ward in Pibor, Jonglei State. Pibor is one of the largest villages of the Murle people, who are an entirely nomadic community of cattle herders, and MSF is the only healthcare providing organisation operating in the area.

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Alexander Glyadyelov, from the series Kyrgyzstan: Former Prisoners Struggle to Continue TB Treatment, November 2009.
MSF case managers and nurses from the outpatient clinic of a hospital in Tokmak, in the north of the country, visit a patient’s house. A nurse holds up an X-ray of the patient’s chest so his relatives can see it.

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Dominic Nahr, from the series Kenya: Somali Refugees Struggle in Overcrowded Camps, September 2009.
MSF staff rush a pregnant Somali woman to the main hospital after discovering the had bled the entire night.

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Dominic Nahr, from the series Fragile Border, Kenya.
A young Somali boy runs away from a sandstorm in Dagahaley Refugee camp. Dagahaley is one of the three camps in Dadaab, mostly for new arrivals and is situated 80km from the Somalia border.

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Greg Constantine, from the series Exile To Nowhere, Burma’s Rohingya, Bangladesh, 2008.

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Michael Goldfarb, from the series Iraq’s War Wounded: In their own words, May 2007.
Nour, a medical technician was sitting in a Baghdad internet cafe in August 2006 when the room suddenly exploded, catapulting her fifty feet through the air. Attackers had blown up the cafe with dynamite placed in a room immediately next door. Nour was the sole survivor of this attack, which killed 20 people. She sustained severe arm, chest and facial injuries.

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Jodi Bieber, North West Frontier Province, Pakistan, September 2009.
An infant dozes on a stretcher in a fan-cooled tent at the MSF run cholera treatment centre at the Mardan Medical Complex, in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province, while older women peer into structure housing 12 of 65 beds. Between June and October 2009, MSF treated a total of 1 611 patients at the centre and about a third of the patients had to be put on intravenous rehydration immediately to save them. Young children remain most at risk of the diseases that is endemic to the region.

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