{"id":17865,"date":"2025-11-21T12:13:38","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T17:13:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/?p=17865"},"modified":"2025-11-21T12:13:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T17:13:39","slug":"memory-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/issues\/fall-2025\/memory-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Memory Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"680\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2025\/11\/fa25_network_pictured_memoryloss-1024x680.jpg\" alt=\"A damaged, partially deteriorated photograph showing two men standing close together outdoors on a grassy area. One man wears a white shirt and holds a cup; the other wears a dark sleeveless top and has his arm around the first man. Large areas of the image are obscured by colorful, organic-looking blotches and streaks caused by severe photo degradation.\" class=\"wp-image-17832\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2025\/11\/fa25_network_pictured_memoryloss-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2025\/11\/fa25_network_pictured_memoryloss-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2025\/11\/fa25_network_pictured_memoryloss-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2025\/11\/fa25_network_pictured_memoryloss-1536x1020.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2025\/11\/fa25_network_pictured_memoryloss-2048x1360.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2025\/11\/fa25_network_pictured_memoryloss-364x242.jpg 364w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2025\/11\/fa25_network_pictured_memoryloss-500x332.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2025\/11\/fa25_network_pictured_memoryloss-1000x664.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2025\/11\/fa25_network_pictured_memoryloss-1280x850.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2025\/11\/fa25_network_pictured_memoryloss-2000x1328.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/magazine\/sites\/13\/2025\/11\/fa25_network_pictured_memoryloss.jpg 2560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"feature-caption\">\u201cD4X9705: Lower Ninth Ward, Memory Loss,\u201d by Stan Strembicki (2006)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Twenty years ago, in August 2005, Hurricane Katrina arrived in New Orleans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Photographer Stan Strembicki \u201975, who has a long relationship with the city, arrived shortly after the storm to document the catastrophe, focusing on the hard-hit Lower Ninth Ward. \u201cAs an artist,\u201d he says, \u201cI felt compelled to do something, anything. Where do you start when faced with an over-whelming event like Katrina\u2014a city emptied and ruined?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Strembicki began looking for \u201csymbols of loss, [gravitating] to found photo albums, wedding albums, snapshots. These were something everyone had and understood. I brought along a 60 millimeter macro lens and made photographs of the objects I found, taking nothing with me but images.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The resulting images of water-damaged photos became an ongoing project, \u201cMemory Loss,\u201d and can be seen in the recently released docuseries on Netflix, <em>Katrina: Come Hell and High Water<\/em>, in an episode directed by Spike Lee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An emeritus professor of art at the Sam Fox School of Design &amp; Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., Strembicki has exhibited his work internationally and has work in the permanent collections of museums in the Midwest and southern U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMemory Loss,\u201d a project by photographer Stan Strembicki \u201975, has been featured in a recently released docuseries on Netflix, <em>Katrina: Come Hell and High Water.<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":17832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[355],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fall-2025","architecture-network","architecture-pictured-network"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17865"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17908,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17865\/revisions\/17908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}