Beyond Katrina

THE END OF THE GREAT RIVER

 

Photographs of the Lower Mississippi River Delta

Port of New Orleans
1350 Port of New Orleans Place
New Orleans, LA 70160
504-522-2551
Mon – Fri 8-5

Dec. 1, 2009 – Dec. 18, 2009

Reception - Dec. 10, 2009, 4:00 to 6:00 pm

This photo-essay and exhibit features fine art landscape images of the Mississippi River Delta, from Port Sulphur in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana south to the end of the three passes that drain the river into the Gulf of Mexico -- Pass a Loutre; South Pass; and Southwest Pass. This delta, full of history, culture, and industry, is sparsely populated and rarely seen in detail by outsiders, but is a landscape of vast, simplistic beauty.  Photography for this project began in the spring of 2000, made on both black and white film and digital color, continuing to the present day.

 The exhibit opens in conjunction with PhotoNOLA, an annual celebration of photography in New Orleans, Louisiana coordinated by the New Orleans Photo Alliance in partnership with galleries, museums and photographers citywide. The exhibit includes 12 images from Matthew White's Mississippi River Delta collection and will be displayed in the lobby of the Port of New Orleans Administrative Building. A reception will be held December 10, 2009 from 4:30 to 6:30 pm. The exhibit closes December 18th and will travel afterward.

To see previews of photographs from the exhibit, please follow this link.

For more information, to inquire about sponsorship, or to book this exhibit, please contact Margaret Saizan, at msaizan@bigvisionmedia.com or 225-229-7399. Further updates will be posted at this site and at  Matthew White's exhibit page at the PhotoNOLA website as additional information  becomes available.

 

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Back from hiatus

Whew. It's been a long time  since I lasted posted here. It's not that I haven't been focused on Katrina matters, it's just that my work has been grass roots, hands on, in the trenches. That said, I have really missed blogging...and August 29, 2009 marked the beginning of the fifth anniversary year of Hurricane Katrina. Can you believe that? In some ways it seems like the hurricane season of 2005 was just yesterday...in other ways it seems like the journey has been long and arduous. No mistake about it - Louisiana is still in the throngs of recovery. I was just talking to  Cyndi Sellers, tourism board and library board for Cameron Parish Louisiana last week  - The library will be just getting out of a bookmobile and into a temporary building sometime in January. Cameron Parish recovery is related to Rita of course - and then they got another wallop last year by Ike. Ok so I digress. At any rate,  now that we're heading toward Katrina's fifth anny, thoughts are I'll take the blog out of archive for one last spin - and then hang her up after Hurricane Season 2010. I am in the process of launching a new online portal - Gulf Coast Rising - which will be focused on innovations happening on the Gulf Coast and I will post information about that here very soon. It's great to be back!

Margaret Saizan

Beyond Katrina: The Voice of Hurricane & Disaster Recovery
www.hurricane-katrina.org