Why Poor Haitians End Up Wearing Obnoxious American T-Shirts

How do impoverished Haitians end up wearing American T-shirts with crude slogans? It's a complicated story of capitalism, consumption, and "charity." Two Haiti-based photojournalists, Ben Depp and Paolo Woods, set about documenting the phenomenon. The resulting portraits of ordinary Haitians, most of whom do not speak or read English, wearing t-shirts with rude humor, political references, or other inappropriate or acontextual content.

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