MICHAEL APPLETON

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  • A man watches with bucket in hand while a row of houses burns out of control in the Garden District neighborhood of New Orleans, LA on Sept. 4, 2005, almost a week after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in the area. Because of severe flooding emergency personnel were unable to respond to the blaze in a timely manner.
  • Quintella Willams holds her nine-day-old baby girl, Akea, outside of the Superdome sports complex in New Orleans, LA while waiting to be evacuted from the city. Thousands of people continued to be left stranded days after Hurricane Katrina devastated the area.
  • Stranded New Orleans residents collect food dropped by an U.S. Army helicopter outside the Convention Center New Orleans, LA on Sept. 5, 2005, almost a week after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in the area. Thousands were left stranded at the facility after being evacuated to the facility prior to the storm.
  • Ann-Veronica Recasner, right, and her mother Mildred Foley, 90, sit with other stranded New Orleans residents on an overpass in downtown New Orleans on Sept. 3, 2005, where they spent four days without shelter following the landfall of Hurricane Katrina. They were rescued by National Guardsman later that morning.
  • A cleanup crew wearing protective suits walks past a small child playing in the sand on a beach on Dauphin Island, Alabama, on Wednesday, May 12, 2010, as they comb the beach for traces of oil from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The spill released millions of barrels into the Gulf of Mexico over a three month period. Its long-term impact on the region is still unclear.
  • Residents of Gonaives, Haiti march in the streets with the national flag in the seaside town on Feb. 22, 2004 in a show of support for the rebel fighters who have controlled the city for almost a month. The rebels would go on to Port au Prince after President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was forced to flee the country.
  • Haitians in Port Au Prince take to the streets in support of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who left the country earlier in the morning.
  • Residents of Cap Haitien, Haiti lay on the ground as Rebel forces search for a suspected gunmen loyal to President Jean-Bertrand Aristide who fired on them on Feb. 23, 2004. The Rebels took control of the city, Haiti’s second largest, the day before but continue to encounter resistance there from forces loyal to President Aristide.
  • A body is removed from the rubble of a collapsed building at the University of Port-au-Prince on January 23, 2010, in Haiti after it was destroyed by an earthquake. On January 12th, 2010, Haiti was struck by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake, dealing a crippling blow to an already struggling nation. Hundreds of thousands died and over a million people were left homeless by the devastating earthquake.
  • Men carry a coffin through the streets of Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Monday, January 18, 2010 a week after the country was struck by a magnitude 7.0 earthquake, killing thousands.
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  • Firefighters from Engine Company 54 and Ladder 4, which share a firehouse in Midtown Manhattan in New York, NY, celebrate together just after midnight in Times Square on May 2, 2011, after it was announced that Osama Bin Laden had been killed in a U.S. military strike in Pakistan. Fifteen firefighters from the Engine Company 54 and Ladder 4 firehouse died responding to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
  • Shiite Muslims exit the Al Hussein Shine as they gather in Kerbala, Iraq on April 22, 2003, to commemorate the life and death of Al Hussein. Hussein, the grandson of the prophet Mohammed, is a symbol of the struggle against repression for the Shiites. This year marks the first time since Saddam Hussein took office that the Shiites Muslims of Iraq have come together for the event without the fear repression from the now fallen regime.
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  • Waitstaff watch from the window of a restaurant as supporters of Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton attend a large outdoor rally at the Stockyards in Fort Worth, TX on March 1, 2008, on the Saturday before the State's primary election.
  • Former First Lady Hillary Clinton walks to a helicopter in Waterloo, IA on Jan. 19, 2007, en route to her fifth campaign stop of the day as she continued her quest to capture the Democratic presidential candidacy against then-Senator Barack Obama.
  • Republican vice presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin makes her entrance to a large rally at the River Front Sports Complex in Scranton, PA on Tuesday, October 14, 2008, where she was campaigning as the running mate of GOP presidential candidate John McCain. Mrs. Palin bursted onto the national political scene from relative obscurity as Governor of Alaska after she was picked by Mr. McCain to be his running mate.
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  • Bernard Madoff sits in a car as he leaves federal court in downtown Manhattan on Jan. 1, 2009, where he was being accused of running a $50 billion Ponzi scheme through his investment company. Mr. Madoff ultimately pled guilty to 11 federal felonies and was sentenced to 150 years in federal prison.
  • A US Airways jetliner, which was bound for Charlotte, NC, floats down the Hudson River off of Battery Park CIty in Manhattan after crash landing in the river just after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport on Jan.15, 2009. After floating for down river the large plane hit land at Battery Park City where it was secured for removal from the water days later.
  • Fans of the French National soccer team react as they watch from outside a French bistro in Soho after a missed goal opportunity during the World Cup final against Italy. Their team would go on to lose the game.
  • Prentis {quote}Sonny{quote} Gibbs sits in Abraham Lincoln Playground in Harlem on Thursday, September 18, 2014, where he sold flowers for over 20 years. The Parks department recently shutdown Mr. Gibbs' flower selling business where he also taught children chess. CREDIT: Michael Appleton for The New York Times
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  • Members of The Rockettes pose with their camel cast mates on the street outside Radio City Music Hall in New York on Nov. 11, 2002, during a promotional event for the upcoming Radio City Christmas Spectacular.
  • Commuters sleep on the steps of the James Farley Post Office on Eighth Avenue in New York City during the early hours of Friday, August 15, 2003, after being stranded because of a massive electrical blackout. The blackout affected everything from trains to mobile phones and occurred across much of northeastern United States and Canada.
  • -QUICK PORTFOLIO-
  • HURRICANE KATRINA
  • EARTHQUAKE IN HAITI
  • PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN 2008
  • IRAQ & AFGHANISTAN
  • NEW YORK CITY
  • 9/11
  • NOT JUST A STATISTIC
  • FACES of NYC's REFUGEES
  • AMERICAN CHAIN GANG
  • LEBANON
  • NY GIANTS RUN
  • HAITI COUP D'ETAT
  • SKI IRAN
  • BIO
  • CONTACT