Robert Polidori

Polidori is a Canadian photographer, now a staff photographer for The New Yorker. His work is held in MOMA and The Metropolitan Museum in New York.

His work depicts the notion of rooms as 'memory theatres' 

Chernobyl:




Hurricane Katrina:



The contrasts in Polidori's images attracts me: the minimalism and the chaos; the garish colours against the muted, faded shades; the delicacy juxtaposed against the devastation.