Press Photography
Art Photography
These four photographs speaks to us. Hurricane Katrina that hit the state of New Orleans around 5 years ago devastated the entire country and the world. At least 1,836 people lost their lives in the actual hurricane and in the subsequent floods, making it the deadliest U.S. hurricane total property damage was estimated at $81 billion. The first press photograph shows couple young African american teens on the ground, that seems like they have been camping there since their home got destroyed, with the pleading words of "The water is rising pleas" begging for help. This was in the newsone.com article. The second press photograph is a lady crying on the ground and families in the background sleeping on the streets. The two press photographs are very similar, both are pleading for help sadness on their faces and living on the streets during Hurricane Katrina. This photograph was taken after the Hurricane Katrina telling their stories to other, I found this article on tellingtheirstories.com. Telling Their Stories is the result of a small army of photojournalist’s desire to find purpose amidst the chaos. When people suffer, art reflectively finds a way to sift the meaning from the turmoil. Photography speaks with a commanding voice. Understanding rises from the confusion.The first art photograph is very powerful it shows the big tree nearly out of its roots and crushed a families house. This was at Louisiana cost taken by Edward Richards, he went to Louisiana University. The last art photograph is my favourite it is called the gray ghost of new orleans, Bandsky a graffiti artist and someone took a photo of it. It says alot the dark scary looking man in the art is erasing a stick figure on the wall, shows that new orleans people are sad and dark because of the natural disaster. However they are trying to clean up by erasing all the sadness that is is showed on the wall. All four of these photographs says alot to the audience each one of the photographs are at a different location and grieving in different ways but they all say the same thing, its sadness, begging for help, trying to rebirth their state, and struggling to build their life back. They had something to now nothing, these photographs have touched many others.
http://tellingtheirstories.com/exhibit/
http://newsone.com/nation/associatedpress2/report-claims-wealthy-whites-received-katrina-loans-before-others/
http://weburbanist.com/2010/09/11/banksy-vs-the-gray-ghost-in-new-orleans/
http://www.epr-art.com/galleries/b3-hk-la/
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