Louisiana Cultural Vistas - Spring 2009 - (Page 84) KATRINA DAYS Life in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina October 29, 2005: Electric stovetop burners on Bellaire Street. Katrina Days is photographer George Long’s intimate portrait of life in and around New Orleans during the two tumultuous years immediately following hurricanes Katrina and Rita of 2005. On August 1, 2007, Long first presented his Katrina work in an exhibit at his New Orleans gallery (www.GeorgeLong.com), calling it “Blowing in the Wind.” Although a few images were hung on the walls inside the gallery, most were outside hanging from a series of clotheslines along a sixty-foot stretch of sidewalk along Magazine Street. “Before we could get all of them glued to the line, a powerful rainstorm had the laminated photographs blowing in the wind and covered with raindrops,” he says. “When I saw them I knew that this was exactly the way they were meant to be seen and experienced” His photographic perspective as a New Orleans insider provides an uncompromising view of pain, loss, and total frustration balanced with humor and hope for America’s most authentic and soulful city. (continued on page 91) PHOTO ESSAY BY G EO R G E LO N G 84 LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES\Spring 2009 http://www.GeorgeLong.com
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