After Hurricane Katrina photography by Jane Fulton Alt

Look and Leave Photographs - November 2005 & June 2006




Jane Fulton Alt's statement about the project.

"This project grew out of having witnessed the aftermath of an unprecedented and devastating natural disaster. As a clinical social worker I spent two weeks providing care and comfort to the survivors of Katrina and Rita, two deadly hurricanes that passed through the south in August of 2005. I was stationed in New Orleans and worked with a program called "Look and Leave." The residents who had been dispersed were "invited" back to view their homes in the Lower Ninth Ward, a neighborhood that suffered not only the hurricane, but two breaks in a levee that drowned the community. I accompanied the residents back into their homes for the first time since they fled.

I have been in mourning ever since. The stories I heard had one thing in common: they were all heartbreaking. These images are my attempt to describe what I saw. As public interest has waned, the media has pulled back. I hope these images will ensure that the survivors will not be forgotten."