If the category 5 tropical cyclone shattered New Orleans, it also reopened much deeper wounds, awakening what Stanley Greene calls the "insidious demon of racism". The photographer first turned his attention to the wreckage left by the hurricane, observing that a natural disaster can ruin people's lives just as a war would, triggering famines, pillages and segregation. He later highlighted the reconstruction efforts, returning to the site in 2006, 2007 and then five years latter… Corruption had made its way: the poorest had never received the help that was promised while the great American nation had turned a blind eye, spent its money on luxurious villas and hotels and bankrupt the humanitarian effort.

Stanley Greene is not just a war photographer. He is a crisis photographer. Whether in black and white or in color, his images bear witness to those left in the shadow of tragedies. Katrina revealed the discrimination and racism that still plague the United States. And still “New Orleans’ forgotten” remain.