After the Storm

Archival pigment print, first edition, 2 of 14, 12 x 18 in, NFS, Private collection

A young Houma boy paddles his pirogue, a flat bottom canoe traditionally used by the indigenous people of the Mississippi Delta in front of his home, after Hurricane Ike. His family was forced to ring their home with sandbags and install a water pump to keep out rising floodwaters. The cycle of storms has proven how unpredictable tropical cyclones are and how fragile the Mississippi River Delta is. Coastal communities outside levees, like Grand Bois, don’t need a hurricane anymore, just a south wind to blow a little too hard, a little too long for marshwaters to cover land.