Post -Katrina Portrait Project

At Last!
It's finally available!

The Post-Katrina Portraits - Written and Narrated by Hundreds is perhaps the most beautiful, socially inclusive and comprehensive collection of first-hand accounts of the Gulf region's disasters as they happened naturally and unnaturally:

The conditions of evacuation, survival and rescue, during and in the immediate aftermaths of Katrina and Rita, And the year of struggle for community empowerment, recovery and reconstruction which followed and set a new grassroots precedent for disaster relief.

416 glossy full color pages of strictly primary source historical and aesthetic collaborative document of the single most profound and revealing disaster to ever hit North America.

1 page Foreword and 4 page Afterword by "embedded artist," Francesco di Santis.

All portraits are original material rendered in charcoal, carbon, graphite, pastel and china marker on sketch paper and organized in chronological order.

All of The Post-Katrina Portraits are handwritten on by those who were drawn or annotated as transcribed off of a recorded monologue of those drawn.

Get the on-the-ground perspectives of survivors, returned evacuees, rebuilders and solidarity-based volunteers.

All net proceeds from sales here will go directly to Common Ground's continued volunteer disaster relief and community rebuilding work in the Gulf Region.

$50 suggested donation for a hardbound 9x12 inch 424 page, 5 pound fine art book with dust jacket and silver foil stamping.

To see The Post-Katrina Portraits for free visit postkatrinaportraits.org

Only available online as a hardback through Common Ground.

Keep memory alive while contributing to Common Ground's aid and solidarity towards the communities of the Gulf.