Archive: POSTSCRIPT KATRINA 2006

At the end of August 2005, Hurricane Katrina with all her record breaking fury, unleashed a level of devastation on the Gulf Coast never before experienced by the United States. The region disappeared under the storm surges, floods and high winds of one of worst storms in recorded history. Those who did not or could not leave were trapped, many were lost to the storm. People's lives, homes and ability to live in the region would be drastically changed forever.

Five months passed and the Gulf Coast existed in a state of limbo, unable to fully recover due to fear of future storms, insurance bureaucracy and in the eyes of many, an irresponsible FEMA. Amongst the scarred landscape lay details, fragments of human stories with no beginning or end. Objects without the owners or the communities who once cherished them. Those who waited or escaped Katrina returned to find what pieces were left. Some just wanted to be home again and place those small pieces of what once was. Some would just forever walk away.

The Gulf Coast lay quiet now at this moment in time. Nature arrived as always in an inescapable way and her voice echoes throughout this torn landscape. These are pieces of lives, pieces of the Gulf Coast left after Hurricane Katrina. May they lay still, and quiet.