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.
This collection contains four groupings of photographs taken in October, November, and December 2005 and January 2006 that trace the destruction of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Metairie, and Gentilly, Louisiana; and in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi.
Photographer Mark Rayner lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and originally posted these images to his website: www.WildDogDigital.com