Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans July 2009 (It's been 4 years since Katrina)







Photographs by MJ Wojewodzki and Shelly Blake-Plock, licensed cc 3.0 2009. Please feel free to share for noncommercial purposes.

4 comments:

  1. Hi. Thanks I guess. Without captions these photographs lack context within your experience, rendering whatever slight meaning you seem to be grasping for as nothing more than a wispy snapshot of anywhere, like that wall art of local scenes you can find in any Mall. This could be Detroit.
    You can't simply take a picture of a ghost and call it a ghost.
    This statement is so vacuous that I cannot comment on its lack of connection.
    Yeah, it's 4 years since the levees broke.

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  2. Captions not needed for those of us from NOLA. In case you did not know:
    1. The street signs are often stolen and replaced with hand made sign (Florida STreet sign)
    2. A hand made sign should not be outside of a school.
    3. The third pic is of an abandoned house. I may not know the address but I can travel a few miles and find you several more like that one.
    4. Concrete steps leading to nothing is self explanatory
    5. I STILL HAVE TRAILERS IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD.

    Captions not needed for those of us from the city that care forgot.
    from Ms. Burton

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  3. Lets all stop and reflect on what has Happened to Haiti. Who cares about New Orleans after all they are Americans, Right!!

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  4. @Anon

    This post was written in July of 2009. For a post on Haiti, see: http://teachpaperless.blogspot.com/2010/01/real-life-and-death.html

    And, for the record, I care about New Orleans.


    Shelly

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