Robert Polidori arrived in New Orleans three weeks after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city. As he surveyed the magnitude of the damage firsthand, Polidori’s initial assignment to document the hurricane’s aftermath for The New Yorker evolved into a much larger project. He spent seven weeks photographing the innumerable destroyed homes, flooded streets, and ubiquitous piles of rubble. His sharply focused, large-format photographs lay bare the cataclysmic results of the natural disaster and record for posterity its impact on the landscape and its human inhabitants.