powerHouse Books is pleased to announce a slide show and signing for
Thursday, October 2, 2008. 7-9PM
Slide Show to begin at 7:30PM
The powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street, Brooklyn
(718) 666-3049
RSVP: rsvp@powerhousearena.com
Contact: tami@powerHouseBooks.com
August 29, 2008 marked the third anniversary of the horror that Hurricane Katrina inflicted upon the north-central Gulf Coast. Its devastation is a wound not yet healed and its survivors are the subject of Joseph Rodríguez’s fourth powerHouse Book, Still Here: Stories After Katrina. In it, he documents the ongoing expressions of hope, perseverance, and suffering in the affected communities.
On Thursday, October 2, 2008, Rodriguez will present a slide show of images from the book and will speak of his experiences while 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.”
“Nearly three years since the mass exodus that followed Hurricane Katrina, well over 100,000 people have not returned to New Orleans,” says Rodríguez. “My photographs document their story and capture the everyday realities in still-devastated communities.”
Internationally recognized documentary photographer Joseph Rodríguez was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Rodríguez’s work has appeared in such publications as The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, GQ, Newsweek, Esquire, ESPN Magazine, and Stern. He has received awards and grants from the Open Society Institute, National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the New York State Foundation for the Arts, and was awarded Pictures of the Year by the National Press Photographers Association in 1990, 1992, 1996, and 2002. His previous books include Flesh Life: Sex in Mexico City, Juvenile, and East Side Stories: Gang Life in East L.A. (powerHouse Books, 2006, 2003, and 1998), The New Americans (New Press, 2004), Respekt: Gangs and Their World in Los Angeles (DN Bokforlaget, 1997), and Spanish Harlem (National Museum of American Art/DAP, 1995). Rodríguez’s work has been widely exhibited, domestically and internationally, and he currently teaches at New York University and at the International Center of Photography. Rodríguez is represented by the Bill Charles agency.
CURRENT EVENTS/PHOTOGRAPHY
HC, 11.25 x 7.375 inches, 144 pages, 87 duotone photographs,
ISBN: 978-1-57687-460-8, $35.00
To preview the book please click here.
High-res scans to your specification are available upon request; scanning from the book or lifting images from the mechanical file are strictly prohibited. Mandatory credit line: from STILL HERE: STORIES AFTER KATRINA, Photographs by Joseph Rodriguez, published by powerHouse Books.
For more information, please contact Tami Mnoian, tami@powerhousebooks.com
Still Here: Stories After Katrina
Photographs by Joseph Rodríguez
Thursday, October 2, 2008. 7-9PM
Slide Show to begin at 7:30PM
The powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street, Brooklyn
(718) 666-3049
RSVP: rsvp@powerhousearena.com
Contact: tami@powerHouseBooks.com
August 29, 2008 marked the third anniversary of the horror that Hurricane Katrina inflicted upon the north-central Gulf Coast. Its devastation is a wound not yet healed and its survivors are the subject of Joseph Rodríguez’s fourth powerHouse Book, Still Here: Stories After Katrina. In it, he documents the ongoing expressions of hope, perseverance, and suffering in the affected communities.
On Thursday, October 2, 2008, Rodriguez will present a slide show of images from the book and will speak of his experiences while 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.”
“Nearly three years since the mass exodus that followed Hurricane Katrina, well over 100,000 people have not returned to New Orleans,” says Rodríguez. “My photographs document their story and capture the everyday realities in still-devastated communities.”
Internationally recognized documentary photographer Joseph Rodríguez was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. Rodríguez’s work has appeared in such publications as The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, GQ, Newsweek, Esquire, ESPN Magazine, and Stern. He has received awards and grants from the Open Society Institute, National Endowment for the Arts, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the New York State Foundation for the Arts, and was awarded Pictures of the Year by the National Press Photographers Association in 1990, 1992, 1996, and 2002. His previous books include Flesh Life: Sex in Mexico City, Juvenile, and East Side Stories: Gang Life in East L.A. (powerHouse Books, 2006, 2003, and 1998), The New Americans (New Press, 2004), Respekt: Gangs and Their World in Los Angeles (DN Bokforlaget, 1997), and Spanish Harlem (National Museum of American Art/DAP, 1995). Rodríguez’s work has been widely exhibited, domestically and internationally, and he currently teaches at New York University and at the International Center of Photography. Rodríguez is represented by the Bill Charles agency.
CURRENT EVENTS/PHOTOGRAPHY
HC, 11.25 x 7.375 inches, 144 pages, 87 duotone photographs,
ISBN: 978-1-57687-460-8, $35.00
To preview the book please click here.
High-res scans to your specification are available upon request; scanning from the book or lifting images from the mechanical file are strictly prohibited. Mandatory credit line: from STILL HERE: STORIES AFTER KATRINA, Photographs by Joseph Rodriguez, published by powerHouse Books.
For more information, please contact Tami Mnoian, tami@powerhousebooks.com
