New Orleans and Detroit
By Allison Melcher
Detroit and New Orleans are often compared because they have both been struck by disaster. New Orleans disaster is easier to define because the majority of the problem was caused by hurricane Katrina and the red tape that followed. Detroit has been struggling with a deteriorating economy, corruption, and crime for decades. I went on a week long service trip to New Orleans in February. I took hundreds of photos and videos. A few of those photos, along with newspaper clippings and bits of a chip bag, are shown on the left side of the collage. I went on a service trip to Detroit from July 8th through 15th. I took almost a thousand photos. My photos from my trip to Detroit are on the right side of the collage. In the center of the collage is a photo of graffiti at the Packard plant in Detroit. It says "so what do we do now?" Surrounding that photo are more newspaper clippings that say things such as "power," "unemployment", and "How serious is corruption?".All the newspaper clippings are from a recent issue of The Michigan Citizen, a Detroit newspaper. All the questions surrounding the circle in the middle were taken from an article about Sudan. However, these are not problems faced only by some obscure country in a far corner of the world; these are problems faced in our own country, and even in our own state. Something needs to change and youth are not the problem, they are the solution. This collage is just bits of glossy paper, trash, and newspaper clippings, but it represents a larger movement in our world.
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