“The Cats claw vines swallowed telephone lines and held houses together. Over grown lots were being used to smoke rock, stash stuff and turn tricks. I was on a ladder on the side of the house in the middle of the day our first summer in New Orleans. I see a woman totally naked talk to herself, walk through the empty lot across the street and disappear.”

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In 2006 the artist and his wife moved to New Orleans and began to renovate two houses in Treme. ‘An obvious outsider who eventually became a familiar face around the neighborhood.’ Mammano began taking photos of the area and local residents. This book of black and white photographs documents the ‘survival and isolation (the artist) witnessed in the neighborhood following Hurricane Katrina.’