Flashback Photos: AJC remembers 2010 Haiti quake

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Flashback Photos: Remembering the 2010 Haiti earthquake

Elissa Benzie, who was an Atlanta Journal-Constitution photographer, provided readers with a firsthand look at the destruction.

Another scene from Hotel Montana showing a single suitcase left in the middle of the destruction. It was so strange to see a normal object just sitting there. It was like a piece of evidence that proved the hotel did in fact exist prior to the earthquake. Elissa Eubanks, eeubanks@ajc.com

100115 Port-au-Prince-Buildings are heavily damaged in Port-au-Prince after a 7 magnitude earthquake hit the country last week. An estimated tens of thousands of people are dead and many those are still missing in the rubble. Elissa Eubanks, eeubanks@ajc.com

100115 Port-au-Prince-Buildings are heavily damaged in Port-au-Prince after a 7 magnitude earthquake hit the country last week. An estimated tens of thousands of people are dead and many those are still missing in the rubble. Elissa Eubanks, eeubanks@ajc.com

100115 Port-au-Prince-A UN worker stands watching cars coming into Haiti from the Dominican Republic after a 7 magnitude earthquake hit the country last week. An estimated tens of thousands of people are dead and many those are still missing in the rubble. Elissa Eubanks, eeubanks@ajc.com

100115 Port-au-Prince-Buildings are heavily damaged in Port-au-Prince after a 7 magnitude earthquake hit the country last week. An estimated tens of thousands of people are dead and many those are still missing in the rubble. Elissa Eubanks, eeubanks@ajc.com

100115 Port-au-Prince-A local cemetery is heavily damaged in Port-au-Prince after a 7 magnitude earthquake hit the country last week. An estimated tens of thousands of people are dead and many those are still missing in the rubble. Elissa Eubanks, eeubanks@ajc.com

100115 Port-au-Prince-Buildings are heavily damaged in Port-au-Prince after a 7 magnitude earthquake hit the country last week. An estimated tens of thousands of people are dead and many those are still missing in the rubble. Elissa Eubanks, eeubanks@ajc.com

100115 Port-au-Prince-Haitians all over the streets of Port-au-Prince wear face masks to ward off the smell of dead bodies rotting. People here are still dealing with the aftermath of a 7 magnitude earthquake that hit the country last week. An estimated tens of thousands of people are dead and many those are still missing in the rubble. Elissa Eubanks, eeubanks@ajc.com

100115 Port-au-Prince-Haitians all over the streets of Port-au-Prince wear face masks to ward off the smell of dead bodies rotting. People here are still dealing with the aftermath of a 7 magnitude earthquake that hit the country last week. An estimated tens of thousands of people are dead and many those are still missing in the rubble. Elissa Eubanks, eeubanks@ajc.com

100115 Port-au-Prince-A medic holds onto a fluid bag for a woman who lays on a stretcher on the tarmac of the Port-au-Prince airport Friday. Haitians in Port-au-Prince are still dealing with the aftermath of a 7 magnitude earthquake that hit the country last week. Military helicopters arrive to pick up these injured evacuees and take them to a medical facility in Guantanamo Bay. Elissa Eubanks, eeubanks@ajc.com

100115 Port-au-Prince-Military personal brings massive shipments of various goods into the Port-au-Prince airport Friday for the Haitians in Port-au-Prince who are still dealing with the aftermath of a 7 magnitude earthquake that hit the country last week. An estimated tens of thousands of people are dead and many those are still missing in the rubble. Elissa Eubanks, eeubanks@ajc.com

100115 Port-au-Prince-Water trucks line the street at the border crossing into Haiti Friday. People in this part of the world are still dealing with the aftermath of a 7 magnitude earthquake that hit the country last week. An estimated tens of thousands of people are dead and many those are still missing in the rubble. Elissa Eubanks, eeubanks@ajc.com

100115 Port-au-Prince-Some kind of official K9 unit wearing face masks rides into Haiti from the check point before the border headed toward Port-au-Prince. People there are still dealing with the aftermath of a 7 magnitude earthquake that hit the country last week. An estimated tens of thousands of people are dead and many those are still missing in the rubble. Elissa Eubanks, eeubanks@ajc.com

100115 Port-au-Prince-Haitians in Port-au-Prince deal with the aftermath of a 7 magnitude earthquake that hit the country last week. An estimated tens of thousands of people are dead and many those are still missing in the rubble. The streets are filled with people here and some have even set up their roadside stand as usual. Eubanks, eeubanks@ajc.com

100115 Port-au-Prince--A man wears a surgical mask to ward off the smell of dead bodies that are still stuck in the rubble and some laying on the sidewalks of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. People there are still dealing with the aftermath of a 7 magnitude earthquake that hit the country last week. An estimated tens of thousands of people are dead and many those are still missing in the rubble. Elissa Eubanks, eeubanks@ajc.com

100115 Port-au-Prince--A military helicopter lands at the Port-au-Prince airport to drop off supplies and picks up injured people who wait on stretchers on the tarmac. The airport is completely empty and damaged from the earthquake. Only media, military personal, emergency workers and evacuees are allowed to enter. Evacuees are divided into lives on the tarmac with injured people on stretchers. Media is also set up outside with their live shots and emergency workers at are the ready. missing in the rubble. Elissa Eubanks, eeubanks@ajc.com

100116 Port-au-Prince-Rene Dimanche moans with pain whispering "why" on the ground at the Adventist Auditorium in Port-au-Prince Saturday. Her family said her house fell on her during the earthquake and that she needs to go to the hospital. CARE workers dropped off water to the Auditorium but have no medical skills to they could not help Dimanche. Elissa Eubanks, eeubanks@ajc.com

An exhausted rescue worker takes a break on the side of Hotel Montana. The hotel is billed as being away from the turbulent city of Port-au-Prince built a top the city looking down. It struck me that there were more rescue workers on the scene searching for survivors here than I had seen all over the city that was in ruins everywhere you looked. The earthquake did not care if you were rich or poor, but perhaps in the end it did matter.
Elissa Eubanks, eeubanks@ajc.com

This image was also taken at the Airport International Toussaint Louverture. This man was badly burned in the earthquake and military personnel were treating him on the tarmac. It was disturbing to see this man on the verge of dying right next to a line of evacuees who were perfectly fine. It seems so unfair, so wrong. Elissa Eubanks, eeubanks@ajc.com

This market was one of the largest markets in the city and it was bustling with people at the time of the earthquake. It was a place people gathered to watch rescues all the days we were there. On this day, there was not a rescue happening and people would just walk by and stare. The streets were filled with people walking. I am not sure where they were going but everyone was waking, just waking and looking, just looking. Elissa Eubanks, eeubanks@ajc.com

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