“After the Flood,” The Drawbridge
Davy Jones speaks to photographer Robert Polidori about his images of post-hurricane New Orleans.
Davy Jones speaks to photographer Robert Polidori about his images of post-hurricane New Orleans.
With tonnes of art representing the world’s great cities already in its halls and vaults, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is now dealing with work from an ex-Montrealer.
Tthe thing that distinguishes Polidori’s photos is the thing that is missing from them: people. Instead, the French-Canadian photographer, who once lived in New Orleans’s Gentilly neighborhood, illustrates the lives affected by Hurricane Katrina through the city’s abandoned buildings.