Jennifer Shaw Releases 'Hurricane Story'
New Orleans photographer Jennifer Shaw has published “Hurricane Story,” a memoir composed of short prose and color photographs.
Shaw's signature images, taken with a toy Holga camera, tell the story of her evacuation from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, the birth of her first son, the pressures of living in a post-disaster environment, and her family’s return to New Orleans...
Denver's Todd Heisler Wins Pulitzer Prize; L.A.'s Carolyn Cole, Brian Vander Brug and Damon Winter also Nominated
Two Pulitzer Prizes for photography have been awarded this year. The staff of the Dallas Morning News won the award for Breaking News Photography, for its coverage of the chaos that resulted from Hurricane Katrina's rampage across the Gulf states.
In the Feature Photography category, Todd Heisler of Denver's Rocky Mountain News won the prize for his behind-the-scenes look at funerals for Colorado Marines who had returned from Iraq. Heisler previously was recognized by the Pulitzer board in...
David Julian Hurricane Katrina Documentary Photo Series to Be Exhibited in New Orleans and Houston
Photographer David Julian has created a documentary series of images illustrating the turmoil that followed Hurricane Katrina's assault on the Gulf Coast. "Taken From the Heart: Images of Intimate Loss After Katrina" will be exhibited at the reopened New Orleans Museum of Art from June through August, and at Houston's Museum of Cultural Arts in September.
In addition, Julian's photo-illustrations recently garnered two Maggie awards for George Lucas' Edutopia magazine.
Hurricane Katrina: Tragedy in the Gulf
A collection of searing images from photographers who came to New Orleans and the Mississippi coast from across the country to document the catastrophe and recovery of the stricken region.
They thought that they had dodged a bullet. As the winds died down on Monday, Aug. 29, the thousands of remaining New Orleanians who had weathered the storm in their homes and in shelters learned that the eye wall of Hurricane Katrina, one of the strongest storms ever to hit the United States, had shifted slightly east. While Katrina destroyed most properties on the Mississippi coast, New Orleans, at first, looked battered but safe...