卡特里娜五周年:让图片叙述曾经的疮痍

Everything was gray. Just like when you saw after 9/11 where, you know, the streets were all gray. It was, you couldn't find any greenery, nobody, no one coming down the street, it was very eerie, very eerie to be just in the silence. That's what I remember, just being so quiet.

It's nothing, nothing really changed, I mean, like you have an overturned car in the middle street. Yeah, we moved that, but that's it. I mean, like I said the people are not, are not coming back. You don't see the commerce, this is like some parts of the city are still like a ghost town. It's just a reality that you've to reach like ail. This is how we live. And this is what we have to deal with.

In the photo with the shrimp boat that is going a little ways into the house. Where that boat came from, I don't know. But it's at the end of the street, close to a levee, which right on the other side is a body of water. So I don't know where this boat came from, but it certainly didn't belong on the street.

It took a picture of the church. It was a church, basically right behind me, across the street. It was a two-storey church with this huge set of stairs going up to it and it collapsed sometime during the storm, so it was collapsed when I came back. And, basically, the whole site has been cleared since and now just the stairs are there.

I am hoping now people will realize, you know, they have, whatever number is, how many died in Mississippi, how many died in the Lower Ninth Ward. But, you know, you will get to see, you know, it wasn't just that weekend or those few months. You know, it continues, you know, people are still affected by what happened.