Carolyn Cole is a staff photographer for the Los Angeles Times.

4. Haiti: Coping with the aftermath

5. PRAYER: Residents of St. Louis Gonzaga IDP Camp pray in front of tents during a three-day mourning period for the country. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

6. CATHEDRAL: In Port-au-Prince, a man stands in the ruins of the Notre Dame Cathedral at the start of a three-day period of national mourning in Haiti, a month after the devastating earthquake Jan. 12 that killed an estimated 200,000 people. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

7. WASHING UP: A broken water main pipe gives downtown residents the opportunity to bath and wash their clothes. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

8. RESCUED: U.S. Army Spc. Nelson Whitney of the 82nd Airborne Division assists a severely dehydrated man who was pulled out of the rubble of a collapsed building in downtown Port-Au-Prince. It is unknown whether he had been trapped for two weeks since the original earthquake. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

9. EXHAUSTED: Water is poured over the head of an elderly woman who collapsed while trying to make her way through a crowd to reach a food handout in the Cite Soleil neighborhood in Port-au-Prince. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

10. OUT OF FOOD: A U.N. soldier from Uruguay tries to hold back a surging crowd at a food distribution point in Port-au-Prince. Thousands waited for rice, but supplies ran out. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

11. DAWN PRAYER: A woman prays at the break of dawn in Port-au-Prince. At night, rich and poor take to the streets to sleep, worried about being caught in their homes if aftershocks hit. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

12. COFFIN: Louis Joseph Valentine lowers his mother Therese Theodore, 76, into a casket after she died on Wednesday. Valentine, whose home was leveled in the quake, says his mother didn't get medical care in time. Her casket was carried to the nearby Central Cemetery. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

13. ACCIDENTAL: The body of a police officer lies in a Port-au-Prince street. He was accidentally shot by fellow officers who mistook him for a looter. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

14. RUBBLE: woman navigates through the rubble in downtown Port-au-Prince. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

15. WAITING: Nearly a week after the quake struck, Seraphine Joseph is still waiting to be cared for at a clinic in the town of Leogane. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

16. Civil War in Liberia

17. WAR UNDERFOOT: Bullet casings carpet a street in Monrovia, at the heart of the battlefield between government and rebel soldiers. Businesses closed for weeks as the battle raged. (Carolyn Cole/ Los Angeles Times)

18. FIRING BACK: A government soldier defends a bridge in central Monrovia where a standoff between rebel and government forces held the city under siege. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times)

19. KEEPING LOW: Women run for cover on July 7th as the sound of heavy gunfire booms off of buildings and homes in downtown Monrovia where rebel and government soldiers fight for control. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

20. FAR FROM HOME: Thousands of people displaced by fighting came to live in the former Masonic Temple in Monrovia. Founded partly by freed American slaves in the early 19th century, Liberia has long looked upon the U.S. as a kind of godfather. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times)

21. HUNGER: Refugee children line up for a meager handout of rice, the only food they receive at the refugee camp where they are staying on the outskirts of Monrovia. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times)

22. NOWHERE TO GO: Tehneh Johnson has lived in a refugee camp on the outskirts of Monrovia for more than a year. She is no longer safe as rebel soldiers approach the Liberian capital. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times)

23. A CHANCE TO REST: A boy finds respite on a foam pad in the elementary school at the Firestone Rubber Plantation, where refugees sought shelter from rural fighting. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times)

24. FEW COMFORTS: Ester Burges, 6, Sarrah Barbar, 7, and Sabay Ndebe, 5, bathe from a bucket of cold water at the Hannah B. Williams center. the number of orphans in war-devastated Liberia now tops 10,000, officials say. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times)

25. WATERY PATH: Unable to find food in government held areas, Liberians wade through swampland to buy food in rebel territory. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times)

26. THREATENING STANCE: Fighters supporting President Charles Taylor course through Monrovia's central marketplace. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times)

27. VOICES FOR THE DEAD: A crowd piles bodies outside the U.S. Embassy to emphasize their plea for American intervention. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times)

28. CAUGHT IN THE CONFLICT: Kinny Kanneh, age 9, was wounded when mortar rounds landed in a Monrovia refugee camp run by the American embassy. Refugees descended on the capital to avoid fighting, but the violence followed.(Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times)

29. Mass grave, Liberia ( Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times)

30. Katrina

31. An exhausted Dillon Chancey, 7, helps his family comb through the rubble to find what’s left of their belongings. He and his parents clung to trees and rooftops as the storm demolished their Biloxi, Miss. Home. (Carolyn Cole/Los Angeles Times)

32. A rescue team travels down a flooded street in New Orleans looking for survivors. (Carolyn Cole/ Los Angeles Times)

33. An exhausted elderly woman rests on the ground under a freeway where many had gathered to await evacuation. For those without cars, there was no other choice. (Carolyn Cole/ Los Angeles Times)

34. Robert Termier and Ruth Ann Lewis wait for help outside their flooded apartment as an evacuation helicopter tries but fails to reach them. A boat rescues them later. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

35. Without sufficient water and power, firemen stand helpless as a downtown building burns in a suspected arson. Some officials failed to report to duty during the emergency. (Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)