The Meet the Artist event that I went to for class was a opportunity to meet an internationally known photographer named Thomas Neff. Mr. Neff turned out to not be just a photographer but also a writer. His recent project that he has been working on and traveling for is a tribute to the Hurricane Katrina victims. He specifically was interested in the stories of the people who did not evacuate their houses and remained behind in the flooded city. He wrote a book using the pictures that he showed us and compiling them together with the stories of the people in them. Mr.

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  I will be the first to admit that Hurricane Katrina never peaked much interest in me. Whether I didn’t understand what had actually happened, or whether I sought ignorance I cannot say. Last night, however, Thomas Neff, introduced me to this devastating disaster. Neff opened his presentation by defining his role as a photographer. He described himself as a photographic documentologist capturing history in the making.