NPR photographer David Gilkey revisits a few key locations in Haiti one year after a massive earthquake devastated the capital, Port-au-Prince, and left more than 200,000 people dead. Conditions in some locations have improved in the past year; others changed very little.
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![A year after Haiti's damaging earthquake, this collapsed building in downtown Port-au-Prince is gone, one of the few to have been removed.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/f33b589/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1000x319+0+0/resize/880x281!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fnews%2F2011%2F01%2F10%2Fnowthen3_custom-a429f07729d63740bee75ee9708d8fa8f9af3b93.jpg)
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![The collapsed roof a shop near downtown Port-au-Prince has been removed since this Jan. 17, 2010, image, and street vendors and shoppers are using the area.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/3838c87/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1000x340+0+0/resize/880x299!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fnews%2F2011%2F01%2F10%2Fnowthen2_custom-4463ffcea2cbd279b98a6cec7f24bd23a07e19ce.jpg)
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![Very little has changed at Our Lady of Assumption Catholic Church in downtown Port-au-Prince, seen on Jan. 17, 2010, and Jan. 8, 2011.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/cfcc544/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1000x309+0+0/resize/880x272!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fnews%2F2011%2F01%2F10%2Fthennow4_custom-74830a22f7921d6cdb65c9d4109be44dd3c1be29.jpg)
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![The central market in downtown Port-au-Prince was destroyed in the earthquake, as seen in this Jan. 14, 2010, photo. By Jan. 8, 2011, some of the rubble had been removed.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/830fafb/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1000x261+0+0/resize/880x230!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fnews%2F2011%2F01%2F10%2Fthennow5_custom-d4006232189af5f2bf318f3c0b21234bf714351e.jpg)
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![Morgue workers walk through piled bodies at the National Hospital's central morgue in downtown Port-au-Prince on Jan. 14, 2010. The hospital is now up and running, and the morgue is back to business as usual.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/c571490/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1000x327+0+0/resize/880x288!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.npr.org%2Fassets%2Fnews%2F2011%2F01%2F10%2Fnowthen_custom-8c7b36e31ff3d54073235f15f0f514e70075259a.jpg)
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