We Are Hard Pressed to Find Their Families
2001/2005, silver gelatin print and ink, 16" x 20"
We Are Hard Pressed (detail)
2001/2005, silver gelatin print and ink, 16" x 20"
Many to Never Return
2001/2005, silver gelatin print and ink, 20" x 16"
Many to Never Return (detail)
2001/2005, silver gelatin print and ink, 20" x 16"
Our Heart Breaks That Our City is Gone
2001/2005, silver gelatin print and ink, 16" x 20"
Our Heart Breaks That Our City is Gone (detail)
2001/2005, silver gelatin print and ink, 16" x 20"
We Thank God For Each Other
2001/2005, silver gelatin print and ink, 20" x 16"
We Thank God For Each Other (detail)
2001/2005, silver gelatin print and ink, 20" x 16"
Our City Is Gone
The photos were taken at Mardi Gras in 2001.
Four years later, I was beginning a graduate program in Wisconsin and unable to work as I watched New Orleans struggle under tides both organic and manufactured.
Sitting in a studio in the top of a tower, I revised this old work, and paired it with text from the emails a friend was sending out weekly to update everyone on her situation.
I made these pieces and never exhibited them. They were for me. They helped me process. They were therapeutic and personal. Ten years later, I feel like they deserve a small spot on the website.