Jane Hahn Photography

past work: guinea's ebola crisis

  • Womey, Guinea 2015
  • Etienne Ouamouno, 31, watches his daughters Marie, 6, Seyou, 7, and Kane, 2, (L to R) outside their home in Meliandou, Guinea on January 25, 2015. Meliandou is starting point of the Ebola epidemic when toddler Emile Ouamouno was the first to die from the virus in December of 2013. Since then 15 people have died of Ebola in the small village leading 200 people to flee since the start of the epidemic leaving 400 people. What was once a prosperous farming community, most now live in hunger unable to tend to their fields of mainly corn, palm and coffee.
  • Etienne Ouamouno, 31, smokes a cigarette outside his home in Meliandou, Guinea
  • A woman prepares food in Meliandou, Guinea on January 25, 2015. Meliandou is starting point of the Ebola epidemic when toddler Emile Ouamouno was the first to die from the virus in December of 2013. Since then 15 people have died of Ebola in the small village leading 200 people to flee since the start of the epidemic leaving 400 people. What was once a prosperous farming community, most now live in hunger unable to tend to their fields of mainly corn, palm and coffee.
  • A woman prepares food in Meliandou, Guinea on January 25, 2015.
  • Etienne Ouamouno, 31, with his daughter Kane, 2, in their home in Meliandou, Guinea on January 25, 2015. Meliandou is starting point of the Ebola epidemic when toddler Emile Ouamouno was the first to die from the virus in December of 2013. Since then 15 people have died of Ebola in the small village leading 200 people to flee since the start of the epidemic leaving 400 people. What was once a prosperous farming community, most now live in hunger unable to tend to their fields of mainly corn, palm and coffee.
  • Cécé Kpoghomore, 45, director of the school, points to a map made by a student in his office in Meliandou, Guinea on January 25. 2015.
  • The abandoned health clinic in Meliandou, Guinea on January 25, 2015.
  • A sign marks the entrance to Womey, Guinea on January 24, 2015. On September 16, 2014, a team of government employees, journalists and health care workers entered Womey to educate the people about Ebola when the group was attacked and eight people were brutally killed.
  • Jacques Mamy, 34, holds a photo of his father Reverend Moises Mamy outside of their home in N'zao, Guinea on January 23, 2015. Reverend Moises Mamy was one of eight people killed on September 16, 2014 while visiting the town of Womey in an attempt to educate people about Ebola.
  • Reverend Moises Mamy's granddaughter sleeps in their home in N'zao, Guinea on January 23, 2015. Reverend Moises Mamy was one of eight people killed on September 16, 2014 while visiting the town of Womey in an attempt to educate people about Ebola.
  • Maman Nowein Mamy, 55, (r) wife of Reverend Moises Mamy, stands with her family outside of their home in Nzao, Guinea on January 23, 2015. Reverend Mamy was one of eight people killed while trying to educate people about Ebola in the town of Womey, Guinea on September 16, 2015.
  • Abdoulaye Sampou, Prosecutor of Nzerekore, in his office in Nzérékoré, Guinea on January 23, 2015. Sampou is responsible for the governments prosecution of those who killed eight people while trying to educate people about Ebola awareness in Womey, Guinea on September 16, 2014.
  • A solider walks through the main court room in Nzérékore, Guinea on January 23, 2015. This will most likely be the courtroom used to try the 34 people who are currently being held by authorities for the killing of eight people who traveled to Womey, Guinea to educate people about Ebola on September 16, 2014.
  • Nyamkoye Haba, 60, sits in the Haba family home in Womey, Guinea on January 24, 2015. Haba was one of many arrested for the killing of eight people, part of a larger government led group who entered Womey to educate people about Ebola on Septemebr 16, 2014. Haba was later released and cleared of charges after spending three months in prison.
  • Vövpö Delamou, 67, village elder and Pepe Haba, 39, sits in the Haba home in Womey, Guinea on January 24, 2015. Delamou and Haba recouns the events September 16, 2014 when a government led group visiting Womey was attacked and eight people were killed while trying to educate people about Ebola. The people of Womey claim the military looted all of their belongings while their town was occupied.
  • Women return from their farms outside of Gouéké, Guinea
  • Local District Mayor Vohoro Kpef Pivi speaks with villagers about Ebola awareness in N'zebela, Guinea on January 22, 2015.
  • A man listens to the radio in N'zebela, Guinea on January 22, 2015. Most people in the forested region of Guinea receive news through the radio due to high levels of illiteracy.
  • A man walks passed graffiti that reads {quote}Black Never Dead{quote} in Conakry, Guinea on January 27, 2015.
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