Michael Carroll

Michael Carroll is a photographer who captured the horror story of Romanian orphans after the fall of the communist regime in 1989. Thousands of children were infected with HIV/AIDS and were dying every day. Carroll used his camera to document what was happening in Romania and bring it back to the US for media sources like the New York Times and the Boston Globe.  After seeing this tragedy, Carroll and many supports created the Romanian Children's Relief and it's partner, Fundatia Inocenti to help children and families in need and prevent child abandonment. Carroll's work in Romania opened the Western worlds' eyes to what was really happening in Romania at the time and helped bring them assistance. 

Romanian orphanages have come a long way since the tragedies of the 1990s but the children are still not in the level of care we would see proper for them. A lot of children are still being abandoned but overall the sanitation of the orphanages has gone up in recent years. 

Today Michael Carroll works as a freelance photographer and media consultant. His corporate clients have included Disney, Compaq, Malden Mills, Beth Israel Hospital, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Boston Children's Hospital, American Express and General Motors Corp. (http://www.sxu.edu/student-life/ministry/crpd/sweeney/hand_held_film_general/bio_michael_carroll.asp) He is till the President of the Romanian Children's Relief.


http://www.sxu.edu/student-life/ministry/crpd/sweeney/hand_held_film_general/bio_michael_carroll.asp
http://www.romanianorphanministries.com/the-orphans-of-romania/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romanian_orphans
http://www.romania-insider.com/hand-held-documentary-about-romanias-orphans-screened-in-bucharest-in-december/14613/