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Miniature painting. There are huts on top and water and fields on the bottom. People are boating in the water. It appears there is a bridge separating the two.

Painting of a village. A man on a donkey (back to the viewer) carrying a basket, looks at the village. There is a horse grazing in the background.

This record contains images of monuments in Haiti during the 1970s.

oil on canvas

Jonas Profil was born in Fort Liberte, near Cap Haitien in 1957. His father was a souvenir ven-dor. At age 18 Jonas took the money given to him for school and bought art supplies. Since that day he has been a painter.
Although he…

This record contains images of the National Palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, during the 1970s.

Taken at La Tourterelle Beach in Les Cayes. People come here to fish and collect other seafood from the ocean. The water is incredibly breathtaking and the skilled sailors use their boats to fish as well.

Peter, who lives in one of the houses in the neighborhood, is legally blind in both eyes and walks with a blind stick made out of wood. He gets around completing his daily errands with this stick, and is the sweetest man I’ve ever met.