The images and paintings put a human face to the suffering but also illustrate the energy and aspirations of the killer quake's most helpless survivors.
Vazquez provided portable cameras and boxes of donated art supplies to about 500 children. Just 37 of the best photographs and nearly 100 paintings were selected for the MOCA exhibition, with the artists ranging from six to 13 years old.
"We asked them to paint the Haiti of their dreams," said Ines Lozano, who traveled to the devastated country with other volunteers from the Friends of the Orphans group to teach children in the capital Port-au-Prince the basics of photography and painting.
The result is the exhibition "Through the Eyes of a Haitian Child", which reflects the emotions and hopes of those who lost everything, including their parents, in the earthquake that left about 250,000 people dead and over a million homeless.
"Despite their difficult situation, these are children who show great joy and creativity," said Lozano, who led the mission and is the principal of First Presbyterian International Christian School.
"Many of the children were holding a camera for the first time and thoroughly enjoyed it," said Vazquez, who taught basic photography.
An estimated 300,000 Haitian children lost their parents in the earthquake and were sent to orphanages.
Others were forced to live in precarious tent camps exposed to Haiti's tropical storms or to swap school books for pistols as they turned to slum gangs to survive.
International groups are struggling to protect young, homeless Haitians, some of whom were illegally adopted, enslaved or captured by local crime gangs after the quake.
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