Robert Polidori
Robert Polidori In late September 2005, Robert Polidori traveled to New Orleans to record the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina and by the city's broken levees. The next day he began to…
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Robert Polidori
In late September 2005, Robert Polidori traveled to New Orleans to record the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina and by the city's broken levees. The next day he began to photograph, house by house: "All the places I went in, the doors were just open. He found the streets deserted, and, without electricity, eerily dark.
On maybe half of them or a third of them that I went in, I think that the occupants had been there prior. They had been opened by what I collectively call Ithe army, ' of maybe 20 National Guards from New Hampshire, 15 policemen from Minneapolis, 20 firefighters from New York... And some of them did leave certain funeral-like mementos before they left.
Maybe right after the waters receded they had the chance to just--to go back to their place and just see, and realize there's nothing worth saving." Amidst all this, Polidori has found something worth saving, has