( Research for Environment ) Robert Polidori - After The Flood

After spending Most of last night Reading and flicking though "Robert Polidori's After The Flood"  Polidori visited New Orleans between September 2005 and April 2006. He went round photographing the widespread destruction—an incomprehensible landscape of felled oak trees, houses washed off their foundations, and tumbled furniture, Looking closely at the Destruction of family's home's, businesses nature whipping out a whole community in just a few hours.



5417 Marigny Street


Polidori finds a formal beauty that radiates stillness and compassion and invites contemplation. 
Like i do when i walk round wrecked abandoned Homes'Schools,Hospitals. There is just this overwhelming feeling of sadness knowing Places like homes that have had alot of work and effort to make it someones home or even a family home has been destroyed in a matter of minuets by natures freakish accidents. 





  The wrecked rooms, collapsed houses, and ravaged neighborhoods on view in After the Flood become metaphors for human fragility. Showing the hell what the Neighborhood would be going though after a traumatic time they would be going though knowing that all of the prize possessions, everything they had ever worked for destroyed.







 Using a large-format camera, natural light, and unusually long exposures, Polidori records the destruction with a mastery of color, light, shadow, and texture that brings to life discarded mementos and mud-caked belongings. In each image, the artist seems to have captured the very air of New Orleans, weighted heavily with mold, humidity, and history.