I guess the title of this blog entry was the reaction I had when I found myself walking around the Lower 9th ward my second day in New Orleans. It seems an appropriate phrase to use. I knew before I came down here that there was huge parts of the city that still hadn't been cleaned up, but i had know idea of the magnitude. My first thought really was 'I can't believe people live in these neighborhoods'. There are houses up and down the blocks that look the same way they did right after the water receded. That was two and a half years ago. There aren't many things that truly shock me, but I had to pause and take it in before I could start making photographs. I had never seen anything like what I was witnessing here. How could this be the same country I live in?
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