"No photo!": A visual essay of Haiti
A gang member points an imaginary weapon at a rival on a corner that serves as a divider between gang-controlled territories, in the Bel Air neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A boy describes the extreme poverty he faces daily, in the Cite Soleil shanty town of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, Oct. 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A man wearing a necklace adorned with charms depicting a phoenix and a machine gun, waits for faithful to exit the Saint Peter's Catholic church to beg for alms, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Sept. 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
A neighbor describes the poverty in which she lives in outside her house built with recycled metal sheets, in the Cite Soleil shanty town of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, Oct. 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
Children stand inside the Centre d'Accueil de Carrefour d'Haiti orphanage, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday, Sept. 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
By The Associated Press
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haiti is not one story. It is many stories -- overlapping, colliding, advancing relentlessly to violent and heartbreaking endings.
The rich and the desperately poor. The brutal and the brutalized. Uneasily and sometimes murderously, they share half an island that is a magnet for natural disasters.
Photographer Rodrigo Abd, working with reporter Alberto Arce, spent four weeks in Haiti and came away with a kaleidoscopic collection of images -- fragments of slices of life in a tumultuous land.
