KATRINA PHOTOGRAPHS - a MUST SEE!

I have to heartily recommend that anyone that plans on a trip in the Gulf South simply must make a trip to the New Orleans Museum of Art.

Currently, they have on display over 600 photographs of the Katrina disaster.  I attended yesterday with three of my four children. 

My two year old spent the time in the stroller telling me to "Go, Go".  :) Which was a little distracting.  Probably in the child under the age of five or six will be a little bored by the experience.

My eight year old son however was quite blown away, as was my tween-age daughter. 

The exhibit is remarkably powerful with photographs displayed from the floor to the ceiling.  Some are of artistically high caliber and some are just photographs, but the whole left me with an almost physical ache.

For me, as a New Orleanian, I know it had a VERY personal effect, but I cannot imagine anyone with an ounce of feeling walking away without an intense emotional experience.

The photographs range from such subjects as a body in the water to the mold covering a wall in the aftermath of the flood.

One family even sent in a plastic bag of ruined wedding photographs.  Some things simply cannot be replaced.

An added thought, if you are a Louisiana native, admittance to the New Orleans Museum of Art is currently free.

The museum is carrying a book with some 150 photographs from the exhibit in the gift shop so it may be worth your while to go to the noma.org online shop and purchase it.