James Nachtwey
“I’m a witness and I want my testimony to be honest and uncensored. I also want it to be powerful and eloquent and to do as much justice as possible to the people I’m photographing.”
It's much better in High Def. The internet gets better each day. I'm not even all that offended by the BMW ads.
Carry that Weight
Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans, according to Google Maps on 4/1/2007 — not an April Fool's joke.
I was more than a little disappointed a few days ago when Badger pointed out an AP story about Google Maps’ rosy nostalgia. A quick search brought up another view of a barge in the lower 9th ward. It’s hard to say if they are the same physically, but one can be reasonably certain that the second view (stored beneath the fold for fear of linkrot) is a more accurate view of the state of affairs in January 2007.
