The Heart for Haiti auction is live and the bidding has begun.

My aerial of the National Cathedral of Haiti, shot after the earthquake and fire, is part of this auction and show at the Aperture gallery in New York City. The exhibition opens this Wednesday evening at six.

All proceeds from the auction go to Doctors without Borders/MSF. I have worked with MSF/Doctors without Borders in partnership with the Community Coalition for Haiti, an NGO whose members have worked in Haiti since the mid-eighties. I have been a member of their board since 2001.

Most images in the auction started off with an initial bid of $250. As of this morning, my print is currently at $525. The aerial is LOT 33 in the auction.

Please check out the auction site and if in New York, the gallery opening.

http://www.aperture.org/gallery/
Heart for Haiti

My NGO (CChaiti.org) works with MSF in Jacmel.

A collection of amazing photographs are featured in this auction. A partial listing of the photographers who contributed prints includes Jamey Stillings, Michael Prince, Danny Clinch, Sarah Silver, Vic Huber, Erik Almas and Ross Quackenbush.

My aerial of the burnt out shell of the Haitian National Cathedral, shot after the earthquake is included in the auction. (Image #33)

Please take a look at the site, register and bid on amazing photographs. Maybe you will win and the money will help MSF/Doctors without Borders continue their work in Haiti.

Stretchers everywhere. People just arrived as if almost by stealth mode. Some come in with a rush of emotions. Others, like this young man, found on the ground and no one saw the people who brought him to the hospital.

The entrance to our makeshift primary care unit was blocked by an abandoned ambulance. This elderly woman was carried by these two men to a emergency room physician who saw her right away.

This man carried his mother away from the hospital. I don’t know if he was taking her to another facility or why.

The Haitian Scouts were essential in helping keep order and to provide a sense of security to the people. They were a constant presence at the hospital and often helped carry patients into or from our ward.

This young woman suffered a significant injury to her right hip. Erin, a doctor from the Delaware group that worked alongside the CCH team, set the splint and arranged for her to be triaged to Cayes Jacmel hospital.

Hospital Saint Michelle in Jacmel. Three views of operating suites, destroyed buildings and children’s wards impacted by the January 12th earthquake.

Garden and Gun – A Gulls Eye View

I have been prepping all week in between shoots for my 11th trip to Haiti. I leave tomorrow morning with the Executive Director of the Community Coalition for Haiti – a faith based Medical mission that I am also a member of their board. This is our fourth team of medical professionals since last week. I am going to shoot in a small Childrens hospital in Port Au Prince and hope to make it over to Jacmel mid week.

I won’t have the opportunity to post to the blog but hope to add a few tweets. My twitter address is: http://www.twitter.com/camdavidson

My love for Haiti started with my first trip in 1999. I’ve shot primarily for the Community Coalition for Haiti, a faith-based 501(c)3 NGO whose primary focus is working with and supporting a small hospital and several medical clinics in the North Central Plateau. I have been a member of the board since 2002. Last March was my tenth visit to Haiti and my first to the Southwestern peninsula.

Right now, we are trying to get several groups of surgeons into Port Au Prince and Jacmel. Today, I am working on arranging helicopter transport from the Dominican Republic for them.

This morning, CCH ran an ad in the Washington Post about our restricted fund that 100% of the money goes directly toward the earthquake relief effort. One obstacle is the staggering cost of flying in the surgeons and gear from Santa Domingo in the Dominican Republic into Haiti.

If you are interested in contributing to the transportation efforts for our group, please visit our web site, CCHaiti.org

Air Calvary is a 501(c)3 New York based aviation group that helps transport Doctors and teams into crisis areas. They are good guys and are helping many groups with transport from the Dominican Republic into Haiti. The need contributions to help defray the costs of flights from the DR into Port Au Prince. At the moment, there are four secure landing zones in Port Au Prince. To contribute to Air Calvary’s efforts, please go to their site, AirCalvary.org.

I shot this image of the young boy was shot in a school in Central Haiti. This morning, the first appeal for contributions ran in the Washington Post Metro section.

I am adding a section to my AerialStock.com site for prints. The profits from the sale of these images will go to the – Community Coalition for Haiti, an NGO that I’ve shot for since 1999 and am a member of the board of directors. The views include low-level and close-in of the Capitol and Supreme Court in the now prohibited DC flight zone, New York City, The Chesapeake Bay Watershed, the American West, New Zealand and the Everglades.

The money will be used in two ways: to purchase seeds for farmers who lost their crops last fall when Haiti was walloped by three hurricanes in a row and for a feeding program for a small orphanage in the Central Highlands. A member of our board developed an intense feeding program that is working wonders with malnourished infants. One-hundred percent of the profits will be used in Haiti.

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