On Thursday night, I ventured across Manhattan to the Macaulay honors College to my first Meet the Artist event. I didn't really know what to expect at first, I was little informed about what exactly we would be experiencing there that night.

 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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On Thursday night, I had the pleasure of viewing a presentation by Thomas Neff consisting of photographs he took of the devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. We all have heard of the tragedy, but it is an entirely different experience to see it right in front of you, uncensored and without someone sugar-coating it. It's unlike the news, which is a series of cold hard facts. It's more bare than that. It makes you feel, rather than just know. By being a photographer, Neff opened a window into these people's lives.

After reading Professor Bergman's comment suggesting that I compare photojournalistic photography to the kind of photography done by artists like Thomas Neff, I decided it would make a perfect blog topic! Walking down the streets in the city everyday we see photographs on newspapers and magazines, and at home we see images on TV and the internet. Every image we see impacts us in a different way. I found two similar images of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, one by Thomas Neff and the other by David J.