After: The Silence of the Lower 9th Ward by John Rosenthal; 2015. Hardcover. (Really Big) (Discounted)

Photographs by John Rosenthal Preface by Lolis Eric Elie Afterword by John Pope In the tenth year after Katrina, Safe Harbor Books is honored to publish John Rosenthal's photographs of the Lower 9th Ward. About his time there Mr. Rosenthal comments, "What I found and what I photographed wasn't the remnants of a dangerous and dilapidated neighborhood now demolished by a hurricane, but the vestiges of a working-class community in which aspiration contended with scarcity, and where religious faith found expression on every block. From my perspective, the floodwaters had washed away not only bricks and mortar, but also the toxic stereotypes that separate us from each other. What was left, in other words, was the vanishing common ground, and it is this familiar terrain that I have photographed."