HOUSTON, Texas—Five years after Hurricane Katrina and the floods ravished the Gulf Coast, a traveling photo exhibition documenting the long-term impact of the storm will tour Houston and New Orleans from August 19 to September 1.

 

 The exhibit, entitled “Those Who Fell Through the Cracks,” features photos that cover the interior and outside of a 24-foot truck. Award-winning photographers Stanley Greene and Kadir van Lohuizen will debut the exhibition in Houston and continue on to New Orleans for the fifth anniversary of the storm and floods.

 

 “The photographs are a powerful visual document of Hurricane Katrina’s effects on Gulf Coast residents and the struggles they face to this day in re-establishing their lives,” said van Lohuizen, who, along with Stanley Greene, conceived the project to foster a conversation about human rights and those left behind.

 

 “The photographs are a testament to the power of art’s ability to bring new awareness and sensitivity to communities and spur systemic change,” said van Lohuizen.

 

The truck’s journey will begin on August 19, with stops at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and galleries and community centers throughout Texas and New Orleans. The truck will make its way to the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans for the Katrina anniversary. Along the way, the photographers will moderate workshops with displaced people, community organizers, and artists.

  

 

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EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

 

HOUSTON: AUGUST 20–AUGUST 25, 2010

Mobile Exhibition (August 20-25)

Lawndale Art Center, 4912 Main Street, Houston TX 77002

Opening Reception Friday, August 20, 2010, 6:30 - 8:30 PM

 

Afternoon Symposium (August 21, 2-4:00pm)

The Museum of Fine Arts, Brown Auditorium Theatre, 1001 Bissonnet At Main, Houston, TX 77005

 

Workshop with Stanley Greene & Kadir van Lohuizen (August 14)

Houston Center for Photography, 1441 West Alabama Street, Houston, TX 77006

 

NEW ORLEANS: AUGUST 26–SEPTEMBER 1, 2010 

Mobile Exhibition: Ashe Cultural Arts Center (August 26-27)

1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd, New Orleans 70113

Opening Reception, Thursday August 26, 5 – 8 PM

 

Mobile Exhibition: At Lake Forest Mall, New Orleans East (August 28, 2–8pm)

Honoring the people of New Orleans East

 

Mobile Exhibition: At the Lower ninth ward (August 29)

1717 Deslonde Street, New Orleans

In partnership with ‘Make it Right’ in the commemoration five years after the storm.

 

Mobile Exhibition: At the Old U.S. Mint in the French quarter (August 30-31)

400 Esplanade Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70116

 

Symposium (August 27, 6–8pm)

Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd, New Orleans 70113

Showing of the documentary Trouble the Water with Kimberly Rivers

 

Workshop seminar with Stanley Greene, Kadir van Lohuizen & Alan Chin (August 30, 5-8pm)

Ashe Cultural Arts Center, 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd, New Orleans 70113

 

PARTNERS

 

OPEN SOCIETY FOUNDATIONS The production of these images was made possible through a foundation grant.

NOVEMBER ELEVEN Charity organization is acting fiscal sponsor for institutional donations and individual giving support. November Eleven supports independent media, research, and humanitarian aid efforts.

HOUSTON Texas Organizing Project • The Museum of Fine Arts • University of Houston • Houston Center for Photography • Lawndale Art Center

NEW ORLEANS Make it Right • Ashe Cultural Arts Center • The Alliance Institute • A Community Voice

 

 

PHOTOGRAPHER STANLEY GREENE was born in New York in 1949. As a teenager, Greene was a member of the Black Panthers and an anti-Vietnam War activist.  A founding member of SF Camerawork, an exhibition space for avant-garde photography, Greene has photographed wars and poverty in Africa, the former Soviet Union, Central America, Asia, and the Middle East.  He has won seven World Press Photo awards for his work around the world.  His work has been published in Libération, New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Paris-Match, Time, Stern and Fortune, among others.  Greene published the photo book Open Wound: Chechnya 1994-2003 (Trolley), and won the Alicia Patterson and the prestigious W. Eugene Smith Award in 2004 He was awarded a Katrina Media Fellowship from the Open Society Institute in 2006. He is a founding member of the photo agency NOOR.

PHOTOGRAPHER KADIR VAN LOHUIZEN is a founding member of Noor. He has covered stories about Africa, Asia, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East. He has been awarded numerous grants and honors throughout his career, including a Katrina Media Fellowship from the Open Society Institute, two World Press Photo awards and ‘de Zilveren Camera’ 1997, the highest Dutch award in photojournalism, for his story in Zaire on Rwandan refugees.  He also won a Photo District News annual award in the United States for his work in Chad.   In 2000, (Sierra Leone) and 2005 (diamonds) he won the ‘Dick Scherpenzeel’ prize in Holland for best reporting in the developing world. Van Lohuizen’s photographs have been published in the New York Times Magazine, Newsweek, Time Magazine, Le Monde, Liberation, The Guardian, The Observer, Independent Sunday Review, Paris Match, Vrij Nederland, de Volkskrant, NRC Handelsblad, and GEO. Mets and Schilt Publishers published his most recent book, Diamond Matters, in 2005.

Before van Lohuizen became a photographer he was a sailor and started a shelter for homeless and drug addicts in Holland.