Louisiana

I've photographed two cities at their worst on purpose — New York in the eighties and nineties, New Orleans after Katrina — because you don't learn what anything is from its…

Standard Oil broke ground on former plantation land along the Mississippi River in 1909, and within a year Baton Rouge had a working refinery. The neighborhood that grew up next…

The Mississippi River carries 92% of US agricultural exports, and most of it funnels out through New Orleans and South Louisiana -- roughly 60% of the nation's grain exports and…

In 1868 a man won a seat in Congress and the House voted not to give it to him. In 1964 a delegation arrived at a convention with a legitimate claim to be seated and was refused.…