John Woodin was born in New Orleans and lived in the Gentilly neighborhood for twenty-five years. He has been a working commercial and fine-art photographer for more than twenty years. Woodin currently teaches photography at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Find out more about Woodin and his work at www.johnwoodin.com.
Five days after Katrina departed Louisiana, I ventured into New
Orleans with a news crew. We found a city that might have been
familiar to reporters who regularly visit calamities, but the
particular scene was painful for me to gaze upon. While the place
was familiar, this was not the New Orleans I knew. John Woodin's
photographs of New Orleans give voice to this experience of
thousands of people returning home to their city, documenting a
landscape that is at once familiar, beloved, and irrevocably
altered.--Craig E. Colten "An Unnatural Metropolis: Wresting New
Orleans from Nature"
Photographers of cities were drawn to New Orleans after Hurricane
Katrina, including myself. But a few, like John Woodin, were also
going home. City of Memory is a vitally important contribution to
post-Katrina literature, but more universally it is a poignant
essay about both perceptible and imperceptible change.--Sandy
Sorlien "Fifty Houses: Images from the American Road"
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