ONE BLOCK: A NEW ORLEANS NEIGHBORHOOD REBUILDS

PHOTOGRAPHS BY DAVE ANDERSON, ESSAY BY CHRIS ROSE

One Block: A New Orleans Neighborhood Rebuilds (Aperture, August 2010), photographs by Dave Anderson, is a powerful portrait of post–Hurricane Katrina New Orleans as seen through the prism of a single city block whose residents are attempting to rebuild their homes. Using portraiture and still lifes, Anderson explores the very nature of community while testing its fortitude.

Anderson’s compassionate treatment of the neighborhood’s difficult circumstances has drawn comparisons to the work of Dorothea Lange and other Farm Security Administration–funded photographers. Seventy years later, between the devastation left by Katrina and the current housing crisis, the stability and permanence of the American home is once again in jeopardy. One Block reflects Anderson’s affection for New Orleans and his fascination with the power of human resilience—both individually and collectively.

One Block was made possible, in part, with generous support from the Jennifer and Jonathan Allan Soros Foundation.