Vendredi 03 Août 2012 15:13:22 par actuphoto dans Expositions

A photo essay by Thomas Dworzak, Stanley Greene, Kadir van Lohuizen and Paolo Pellegrin March 19 through May 7 You are most welcome at the opening on Saturday March 18 at 5.00 PM by mr. Jan Mets of Mets & Schilt Publishers in presence of Kadir van Lohuizen. Thomas Dworzak (Germany), Stanley Greene (US), Kadir van Lohuizen (Netherlands) and Paolo Pellegrin (Italy) visited New Orleans and Biloxi in the months after the disaster. They came to the conclusion that it was not Katrina which had caused the most damage, but the failures of the American government. Money that had been allocated for strengthening the dikes has been diverted for the war in Iraq. Aid for the region, which to a large extent was populated by poor blacks, was exasperatingly slow in arriving. 'Had Katrina hit New York, it would never have been like that,' says Kadir van Lohuizen. New Orleans is still a scene of devastation, and bodies are still being recovered. Of the half-million residents only 60,000, overwhelmingly black, have returned. 'The largest part of the black population are not welcome any more,' explains Van Lohuizen. 'It is clear that project developers have their eye on the ground where their homes stood. One could call it ethnic cleansing.' The photos from the exhibition are published in the new magazine The Issue. At the opening of the exhibition the first issue will be presented. The large format magazine was initiated by Mets & Schilt Publishers