Radio Haiti photographs, Miles Smith photos, 1986, RH_1.jpg
Date:
1986
Description:
One of twelve color photographs. In 1986, sound engineers Miles Smith and Jane Pipik traveled to Haiti to help Radio Haiti open its station on Route de Delmas after the fall of Duvalier. These photos show construction, sound insulation with burlap, and studio equipment. Features Jean Dominique, his sister Micheline Billot-Dominique and her husband Jean Billot, daughter Dolores Neptune, and Miles Smith. Also includes a photo of a painting of Radio Haiti tied to a cross. The painting is from 1980, and the inscription reads (in translation): "The proverb goes: each firefly lights the way for itself [every man for himself]. We say: unity makes strength. Let's help Radio Haiti-Inter lay its cross down so that it is not crucified."