They say that a picture is worth a thousand words... I have taken a lot of pictures on my current trip to New Orleans, but I could not pick one that can describe what has happened in the 9th ward.
My pictures are not able to describe the helplessness, the emptiness, the devastation... 3 years after Katrina. My pictures are not able to capture the sparks of hope in the midst of the emptiness. There are blocks and blocks of empty houses, deserted parks, vacant lots, and abandoned schools... Suddenly in the middle of the nothingness: volunteers cleaning lots, construction workers on their lunch breaks, strangers from Connecticut on a mission trip to rebuild a pastor's home.
My pictures don't speak a thousand words. They tried to capture the spark in the darkness, the beginning of hope...I am not sure they succeeded.
EED
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