Lurking Waters
Adrianna Ault’s book “Levee” is the photographer’s attempt to better understand the landscape surrounding her city, New Orleans, while untangling feelings of grief in her personal life.
The culmination of her 5 years of work, the book is a flow of images that range from the photographer’s children and late mother to a landscape dotted by the 350-mile levee system that holds back flood waters, to protect the city.
According to Adrianna Ault, the levee became a metaphor for the barriers built in an attempt to ward off inevitable decline, and the onslaught of time and nature: “I discovered how the surrounding city's waterways exposed the land to a constant state of vulnerability. The physical landscape is parallel to an emotional landscape rooted within the culture of New Orleans and its people.”
