Rooms from Versailles to post-Katrina New Orleans

I think Robert Polidori photographs do aestheticize the settings of catastrophe especially in the photos of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. You can tell in that photo that something horrific had happened by just looking at how horribly maintained the houses are and how the car looks like it’s been dragged out of place by water. The streets in the photo also looks like they haven’t been cleaned in a very long time. You can really tell that something really horrible happened in the photos he took of the nuclear accident at  Chernobyl by the way the classroom looked all damaged, and the desk and chairs also look really destroyed. In that photo you can tell that everything there was abandoned and the nuclear accident caused havoc on Chernobyl. He chooses great places to take photos of that would show his opinion or bring his point across on how horrific these accidents were to the place it occurred. I think the photos themselves are powerful statements of these unique events and show the outcome of accidents like the nuclear one or how much damage a hurricane can cause.