GNOARMA - The Greater New Orleans Chapter of the Association of 
Records Managers and Administrators invite you to attend :

"40 Days and 40 Nights"
Presented by Donn Young, Photojournalist
May 17, 8:00AM - 12:00 Noon
Jefferson Parish Library
4747 West Napoleon Ave.
Metairie, Louisiana

Donn Young, official photographer for the Port of New Orleans, lost his
home, his studio, and more than 1 million photographs during Hurricane
Katrina. In the aftermath of the disaster, Young returned to New Orleans
to document the devastation, and photograph the survivors and volunteers
who are working to rebuild the city. 

For the past 25 years New Orleans photojournalist Donn Young has
chronicled life in his culturally rich city, but nothing could have
prepared him for the calamity that devastated so much of the Gulf Coast
last August. Deemed an essential employee by the State of Louisiana,
Donn got right back to work three days after the storm. Since September,
he has worked 12-hour days or longer to document a city brought to its
knees, and the subsequent attempts to start the monumental rebuilding
process.

 To create a better understanding of post-Katrina New Orleans, a tour
and lecture series called "40 Days and 40 Nights" has been created
that puts into perspective what has happened to New Orleans and its
hundreds of thousands of citizens displaced by America's worst natural
disaster. 

On May 17th at 8:00 AM, at the Jefferson Parish Library, Young will
present "40 Days and 40 Nights," a lecture about post-Katrina New
Orleans that will feature not only Young's images but other work from
notable New Orleans 
photographers.

Donn contextualizes  his "40 Days and 40 Nights" presentation by
showing pre-Katrina pictures of the city and its people, with emphasis
on business leaders, home owners, artists, and musicians. But it's the
never-before-published photographs of the storm and its aftermath that
tell a story that isn't being seen on the nightly news or in our news
weeklies. Donn shows his once-vibrant city shrouded in darkness and
introduces us to the 9th Ward and his Lakeview neighborhood, now 
ghost-towns months after the flood. He introduces us to the workers -
including Apache Indians and good old boys from Tennessee - who have
been cleaning up the trash and rubble that now fills one football
field-sized area after another. And he introduces us to the people,
hard-working home-owning Americans of all ages and backgrounds, who now
have no place to call home. For them, finding an heirloom like a
treasured teacup or a family photo that hasn't been destroyed by mold,
is a miracle.  

In addition to this lecture tour, Young is working on an exhibition
marking the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, to be hosted by
the Louisiana State Museum.

Please join us for this unforgettable event.  Continental breakfast
will be served. 

For registration or additional information contact Melanie Gonzales @
(504) 593-8332, Fax (504)593-2524, Email [log in to unmask] -
Registration is $25.00

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