Rooms from Versailles to post-Katrina New Orleans

I think because the photographer takes his pictures without people in it, it allows viewers more room for imagination. They can put themselves in the scene and try to get a sense of how those people felt. They do not have to be there and see how the people reacted. Just by looking at the setting, they can already guess how those people felt. For the photographer, he is more interested in the setting then the people. He wants to show the amount of destruction the homes have taken. In disasters people all react the same, but the damages are not always the same. It also makes the photographer more unique. Many people enjoy taking portraits because they want to capture the emotion. On the other hand, he wants to capture the view and not the emotion of the people. He could possibly think that portraits are too common and landscape pictures can give more imagination for viewers.