Girl in a long white shirt stands in the foreground, with a large, slanting tree and run-down shack in the background.

"My sabbatical in 2012 involved visiting Haiti to photograph the people and learn their stories about the devastation in and around Port-au-Prince following the earthquakes and aftershocks in January, 2010. The best estimates of devastation include 220,000 lives lost, 250,000 homes destroyed and 30,000 commercial buildings flattened. I have been involved with the Hurricane Katrina rebuilding over the past seven years; as destructive and horrible as that was, this was devastation at an entirely unprecedented scale. I visited, photographed, and worked at several locations during my trip." - Steven L. Smith