Joseph Rodriguez created an extensive body of photographs that will be distributed as a book, featured in online exhibitions, and displayed as a traveling exhibition consisting of approximately 25 multimedia portraits of individuals affected by Hurricane Katrina.

His subjects include Gulf Coast victims from varied backgrounds, as well as those who have come in contact with them through church- and nonprofit-based relief work. Each portrait will be accompanied by text, and whenever possible an audio recording, that will place the images within the larger context of local and national social welfare policies such as housing, education, employment, and criminal justice.

The upcoming book will be published by PowerHouse Books in spring 2008.