As he walked the streets of New Orleans the days after Hurrine Katra, Associated Prs photographer Eric Gay relied on what he had learned his journalism ethics class at North Texas cidg whether or not to shoot a photo. “I learned Dr. (Richard) Wells’ (’65, ’75 M.J.) class to not assume anythg. Jt as you mt have your facts straight when you wre a
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STORYTELLERS: ERIC GAY ('90)
Photograph: Eric Gay/APLike nearly 250, 000 of their neighbors, Veal and his fay ultimately settled Hoton, the clost major cy to New Orleans and the center of the Feral Emergency Management Agency’s (Fema) revery efforts. Photograph: Eric Gay/APIn 2012, current New Orleans mayor Mch Landri announced the rults of a nsent cree between the cy and the civil rights divisn of the US Jtice Department an effort to reform the police partment.
Photograph: Eric Gay/APThe guardsmen set up base a middle school the cy’s Uptown neighborhood, where they searched ho for survivors by foot and by boat, g a platoon of boats they would fd backyards and garag. As he walked the streets of New Orleans the days after Hurrine Katra, Associated Prs photographer Eric Gay relied on what he had learned his journalism ethics class at North Texas cidg whether or not to shoot a photo. Gay’s pellg photos of dividuals impacted by Katra — cludg an elrly woman huddled an Amerin flag, people wag spair for evacuatn b outsi the nventn center, and survivors scramblg for food and water dropped om a ary helipter — were not only nomated for a Pulzer Prize for breakg news photography, but also received an award om the Natnal Prs Photographers Associatn the tegory of Bt Natural Disaster Picture Story.
Gay first began shootg photos high school, when he was a py clerk for his hometown newspaper, the Wa Tribune-Herald.