4/1/08

Day Six - March 29, 2008

8:00-Leave for swamp tour
9:00-Swamp tour - Gators!!!
11:00-End of swamp tours
12:00-Tree planting event
2:00-Check out lower 9th
3:30-Group critique
5:00-2nd power shop session
7:00-Group ate in French Quarter
10:00-Walk on Bourbon
11:30-Bedtime

Reactions: It was a full agenda today. Fourteen of us pilled into two vans and saw a swamp tour; the highlight was the massive gator that we saw. Once we were all finished with the swamp tour we drove back to the 9th ward to photograph a tree planting event which was close to the neighborhood we were in on Wednesday. This event required us to follow a shot list, similar to if we were shooting an actual editorial event. The afternoon ended with us stopping at the 9th ward; several of us students from both classes had yet to see that area. It was striking to see the absence of houses in that area. There were some houses that were rebuilt, but not many. Other houses were untouched with all their belongings inside, and other houses remains were only a slab were it had once laid. It reinforced the fact that only half the population had returned to New Orleans, and many that have returned are now homeless.

IMAGES COMING SOON!!!


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