Finding the Faces Behind the Homes

Some of you will be working in the still destroyed areas of New Orleans. The City of New Orleans has a database to search property/tax records for owners' current addresses and contact information. This way you can contact people and interview them, or if it's soon enough, photograph those still living in the area. You can also send them a photograph this way.

New Orelans Participants to Have a Exhibition in Minneapolis in April!

Students attending the New Orleans Travel and Study Program will have an exhibition of their work at the Traffic Zone Gallery in Minneapolis, Opening Saturday, April 19, and running through April 25th. The exhibition, titled, "821 Days Later: New Orleans Now --A Photographic Journey to New Orleans by 17 Students
at the Art Institutes International Minnesota," will have an opening reception on Saturday, April 19th from 7-9pm, and will feature 17 Ai students. The gallery is located at 250 Third Avenue North, just south of Washington Avenue.

Still Looking for a Story to Tell?

I know quite a few Essay students are still honing in on that perfect story to tell with pictures from this excursion. Take a look at the efforts of the Global Green Initiative for inspiration. They have many great stories within the stories on their web page.

New Orleans in the News

On CNN tonight at 9 pm cst, Anderson Cooper 360 will be live from New Orleans. This was originally scheduled to air last night, so we have one more chance!

from the CNN website:
"Billions of your tax dollars spent to repair New Orleans. The result? More homeless families, a soaring murder rate and out of control fraud. 360° follows the money...". This would be worth taking a look to see very current issues, particularly under the backdrop of When the Levees Broke, which many of you have watched over the last two weeks. When the Levees Broke was release just before the one-yer anniversary of Katrina. This will help you gain perspective on how the city has progressed, or more often not, over the last two and a half years.

Also in the news over the last couple of weeks, click here to see some information and video from a piece on the CBS series 48 Hours Mystery on the trial of the Manganos, whose nursing home was the site of an incredible and tragic loss of life in the floods following Hurricane Katrina.

Where are things?

This link will take you to a map of New Orleans with a few key places. We'll be adding more as we go!