Shaul Schwarz

A child runs with a piece of raw meet as mass looting takes place in the Port-au-Prince harbor the day after president Aristide fled the country and lawlessness spread around the capitol.
CAPTION: A child runs with a piece of raw meet as mass looting takes place in the Port-au-Prince harbor the day after president Aristide fled the country and lawlessness spread around the capitol.
Bio

Shaul Schwarz was born in Israel in 1974. He started his photographic career in the Israeli Air Force. After finishing his service he moved on to cover news in Israel and in the West Bank before relocating to New York in 1999.

Today he is still based in New York and works as a freelance photographer represented by Reportage/Getty Images. His coverage of the conflict in Haiti in 2004 received two World Press Awards. In 2005 Schwarz won the highly acclaimed Visa D'or in Perpignan for his work on Settlers from the Gaza strip. A full list of recognitions appears under the Awards tab. Shaul has recently started teaching workshops at the International Center of Photography in New York.