General News - 1st prize
Earthquake in Haiti
Olivier Laban-Mattei
Contrasto
Contrasto
19 January, 2010
A woman walks through the streets of Port-au-Prince, a week after Haiti was hit by an earthquake.
On 12 January 2010, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti, causing thousands of residents to flee the capital Port-au-Prince. They said they were tired of sleeping in the streets, and afraid of aftershocks and being robbed. Haiti has been hit by a number of natural disasters in recent years, including Hurricane Matthew in 2016, and a magnitude 7.2 earthquake in August 2021.
Olivier Laban-Mattei
French photojournalist and Agence France Presse (AFP) Paris photo staff member, Olivier Laban-Mattei was born in 1977 and grew up in Paris, where he studied geography and sociolo...