La experienca de Thomas como fotógrafo de guerra es idonea para cubrir desastres como el ocurrido a new orleans. Una pena que lo lamento a lo lejos. Por otro lado, aplaudo el trabaj de thomas, por su maestría al momento de elegir que tipo de tratamiento dale a la imagen desde el encuadre: crudo, directo, pero sugerente a su vez. Felicitaciones.

I'm in Portland Oregon, where there was a great outpouring of help, financial and volunteer....my husband is a zydeco musician, and his groups played innumerable benefits. I too wonder why the area isn't rebuilt.

Still being the hardest thing to vision even a year after. Neither a single news broadcast nor magazine cover had ever truthfully portrayed the horrible devastation of Katrina while keeping the unique beauty of each area effected in mind. These pictures did exactly that! These photos turned a disaster into a beautiful art! These will become historical memories of every feeling that Katrina left in her path, the memories of the pain, sadness, hate, love, loss and appreciation. However, of all these should one day remind everyone of determination, growth, and strength!

Your pictures look just like the ones I took. I was deployed to Biloxi for 14 day last November and worked along the coast in Jackson County doing damage assesments and re-building inspections. Trying to get people trailers and back into their homes. I never saw anything like that. It was unbelievable. F. Teevan

Your photos and audio were great. If only we can get the local and state politicians in a room to have them watch this and see how much work they have to do to make sure this never happens again. I am little upset that the media does not focus on probably what was the most devistated areas of Katrina, the Mississippi and Alabama Coast Line. Of course it is not a story, because these states pulled together, cleaned up and rebuilt, all without complaining. Why, becasue they were prepared for such disaster. Just as Florida, they are on the cutting edge of Disaster prepredness, so why was New Orleans not prepared. A log of the last Ten Years showing the Governors of Gulf states who attented Hurricane Prepredness conferences show that all or most of the Gulf states sent their Governors to these Seminars every year, while New Orleans and Louisiana officials only showe up twice, even after all the warnings and fears of the next big hurricane to hit New Orleans would be devistating, but I guess the Mayor and Governor of this state probably blame Bush for their lack of attendance because no Bus was available to take them, when all they had to do was look in the parking lot and they could have found hundreds just sitting there waiting to take them to the conference if need be. How N.O. can re-elect these people is beyond me. I guess the Mayor of N.O. really pulled a fast one on the people of this great city, and they were gullible enough to buy it.