Response to Rooms from Versailles to post-Katrina New Orleans

Robert Polidori’s photographs seem to have a lot of patterns in them, not all of them of course but a majority. Tons of details gets brought out, maybe its his use of a large format camera. I think its good that his photographs don’t have people in them, people get boring fast and a change is always welcome. I don’t think his photos give aesthetic to catastrophe but show us a very detailed “Real World” that we’re not accustomed to viewing. They are definitely powerful statements, statements of truth and a reality that we don’t see everyday. They show us the aftermath of a story we may never experience and hope we don’t go through. Whether it’s a terrible hurricane or a nuclear disaster.