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Collecting and Preserving the Stories of Katrina and Rita

The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University and the University of New Orleans organized the Hurricane Digital Memory Bank (HDMB) in 2005 in partnership with many national and Gulf Coast area organizations and individuals. HDMB was awarded the Award of Merit for Leadership in History, and is the largest free public archive of Katrina and Rita with over 25,000 items in the collection. Read More.

JoePhoto

Large-scale printed photograph of a man, cut into vertical strips and hung like a curtain inside a gutted, under-construction wooden-framed room with a window.

Collection

Neighborhoods

Large scale photo of homeowner Joe

photo by Scott Saltzmann

Katrina
New Orleans
art
art installation
arts council of new orleans
community
gentilly
gentilly exhibit
group show
gutted
gutted house
house
installation
la
neighborhood
neighborhoods project
new
orleans
usa

Citation

“JoePhoto,” Hurricane Digital Memory Bank, accessed November 3, 2026, https://hurricanearchive.org/items/show/28257.