Rooms from Versailles to post-Katrina New Orleans

Robert Polidori’s photography is very inspirational and displays a solid setting. I do believe that his photographs aestheticize the settings of catastrophe. Polidri has the ability to take the most gruesome or heartbreaking pictures and make them appear beautiful. In his interview he stated that his work is a part of him, he “embrace(s) things and ingest them and they become a part of (him)”. In order to take powerful photographs Polidri has to emotionally and physically place himself in the environment that he is capturing. His photographs of Hurricane Katrina and Chernobyl were two among many horrific working conditions, not to mention he did put his health endanger in order to capture and demonstrate the damage these disasters caused. His work evokes powerful emotions from viewers, although it may be a melancholy situation in history, his photographs somehow capture the slightest opportunity of beauty in the moment.