New Orleans after the Flood: A Photo Gallery

Robert Polidori traveled to New Orleans four times between September 2005 and April 2006, capturing the haunting postdiluvial destruction and the still-in-place domestic lives of the city’s residents. Nicolaus Mills called “Polidori’s post-flood New Orleans a collage of random disorder...In removing people from his photographs, in labeling houses by their street number, Polidori has made it clear that in his judgment Hurricane Katrina was all-powerful once it struck land. Everyone in its path was temporarily rendered anonymous.”
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Robert Polidori has photographed Havana, Versailles, and Chernobyl, and his photographs frequently appear in the New Yorker and Vanity Fair.