OSI Fellow's Book Documents Continued Impact of Hurricane Katrina

powerHouse Books has announced the October 2008 release of Still Here: Stories After Katrina by photographer Joseph Rodríguez, which documents the ongoing expressions of hope, perseverance, and suffering in communities impacted by Hurricane Katrina and the floods.

Rodríguez, an Open Society Institute Katrina Media Fellow and 1998 Soros Justice Fellow, spent two years photographing and interviewing families and individuals throughout New Orleans and Texas. Like the photographers who worked with the Farm Security Administration during the Great Depression, Rodríguez’s work alerts readers to the ongoing pressures faced by some of the country’s most distressed and vulnerable people. His black-and-white photographs remind the viewer that despite the loss of home, community, and culture, so many continue to push forward, and are “still here.”

View Rodriguez's Katrina Media Fellowship project, "Where Do We Go from Here?"