I am smothering in a cubist landscape of shattered, formerly valuable belongings.īefore our storm, Momma told me of a bad storm she experienced as a child. Since the storm, I dream repeatedly of being in water trapped in an abyss of a deafening absence of sound, amidst terrifying roof tops hanging precariously in trees. I opened the door on the driver's side and put my hand in the water moving it back and forth trying to feel for him and rescue him from the murky water. I couldn't see him in the dimly lit street. NEW ORLEANS (6/20/15) - As I drove down the flooded street looking for Momma, suddenly, Chili, my four-pound Pomeranian, jumped out of the car window. He and New Orleans have had a kind of commuter marriage since Hurricane Katrina. He still manages to shoot Super Sunday, Jazz Fest, second-line parades and jazz funerals, even though he lives 600 miles away. "I was blessed to be part of something so seminal," he says. Waters was the only artist allowed to take photographs at the funeral of Donald Harrison Sr., founder of the Guardians of the Flame Mardi Gras Indian gang. "After all this time, I remember the aperture setting and shutter speed I used," he says, when I mention that picture. It was one of the images featured in the opening every week. If you watched the HBO show "Treme," you've seen the photo. Waters caught him at exactly the right moment. One of his best-known photographs is of Oliver "Squirt Man" Hunter, high above the crowd, doing the splits during a Super Sunday parade. The renowned photographer and cultural documentarian belongs here, snapping pictures of Mardi Gras Indians, social aid and pleasure clubs, and jazz musicians - capturing the heartbeat of the city. "I can take more photographs during an hour in the French Quarter than I can take in nine months in Atlanta." "There's not much in Atlanta to take pictures of," Waters says. That's what I keep thinking as I look around the skeleton of his house on North Rocheblave Street. NEW ORLEANS (6/27/15) - Eric Waters should not be living in Atlanta.
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