Advice on reorganizing my Katrina images?

[Ed Richards]

As many of you know from previous posts, I have been doing a long term project documenting Hurricane Katrina damage. This is both a personal photograpy project and part of my professional work, which includes public health and disaster law. My site organization has focused on the documentation side. The main page - http://www.epr-art.com/katrina/index.htm - has a catalog of all of the images - http://www.epr-art.com/katrina/html/index.htm - and individual pages for different geographic areas with captioned images.

I want to do another set of pages, looking at the subset of images which can stand alone as fine art, rather than just being documentation. I am looking for ideas on how to arrange those - by area, by subject matter, etc.

[Kirk Gittings]

Ed,

I think your body of work is very good and would be much stronger with some editing. My experience though is that involving more than one person in that process besides yourself leads to more confusion rather than less. I would try to find someone with a strong history with editing photo books or curating exhibits to help you come up with a definitive group of images to showcase your work. I love working with a good editor/curator because they oftentimes find relationships and threads in work that we are too close to and can't see. Less is oftentimes more in photography.

[Ralph Barker]

FWIW, Ed, I think Kirk's suggestion is excellent.

If left to my own devices, for example, I might organize them numerically - by GPS coordinates. ;)