Katrina and 9th Ward Churches

[Ed Richards]

PBS is running a special on the recovery efforts in the churches flooded by Katrina:

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionande...dex_flash.html

The covershot is one of mine. The current collection is here:

http://www.epr-art.com/katrina/html/index.htm

I continue to edit, update, and add to the collection.

[Kirk Gittings]

Wow.....this is important work....almost mind numbingly depressing....but beautifully photographed.

[davidb]

Nice work Ed.

Here's some more:
http://www.samuelportera.com/gallery/After-The-Water

[David Karp]

Ed,

Your photos are awesome, frightening, and very powerful. Will the photos be archived somewhere as part of the historical record?

[Ed Richards]

Thanks for adding Sam's link. His work is great and he was much closer to the disaster than I was. While we did not work together, we photographed several of the same sites.

As for the long term record - I hope so. I am now following up and documenting the changes since Katrina. You can see a few paired shots taken a year or 18 months apart. I use GPS to get back to the same places.

http://www.epr-art.com/katrina/html/000405p.htm

http://www.epr-art.com/katrina/html/1280p.htm

(These are shots from Bay St. Louis, MI. These building were not on the beach before Katrina, there was another line of businesses and a road between the buildings and the bay. My favorite restaurant was in those buildings and there was no trace of it after the storm. It took me a while to even figure out where I was because all the landmarks were gone.)

[Henry Ambrose]

Good work, Ed!

[naturephoto1]

Congratulations Ed.

Rich

[Hugo Zhang]

Powerful pictures, Ed!