March 19 through May 7

You are most welcome at the opening on

Saturday March 18 at 5.00 PM

by mr. Jan Mets of Mets & Schilt Publishers

in presence of Kadir van Lohuizen.

Thomas Dworzak (Germany), Stanley Greene (US), Kadir van

Lohuizen (Netherlands) and Paolo Pellegrin (Italy) visited New Orleans

and Biloxi in the months after the disaster. They came to the

conclusion that it was not Katrina which had caused the most

damage, but the failures of the American government. Money that had

been allocated for strengthening the dikes has been diverted for the

war in Iraq. Aid for the region, which to a large extent was populated

by poor blacks, was exasperatingly slow in arriving. 'Had Katrina hit

New York, it would never have been like that,' says Kadir van

Lohuizen.

New Orleans is still a scene of devastation, and bodies are still being

recovered. Of the half-million residents only 60,000, overwhelmingly

black, have returned. 'The largest part of the black population are not

welcome any more,' explains Van Lohuizen. 'It is clear that project

developers have their eye on the ground where their homes stood.

One could call it ethnic cleansing.'

The photos from the exhibition are

published in the new magazine The Issue.

At the opening of the exhibition the first

issue will be presented. The large format

magazine was initiated by Mets & Schilt

Publishers