Destroy This Memory presents previously unpublished and starkly compelling material shot by Richard Misrach in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Unlike his typical large-format work, Misrach used a 4-megapixel pocket camera to capture the desperate, clinical, and sometimes humorous graffiti left on the remains of New Orleans. The book is notable for its total lack of editorial intervention—there are no essays, page numbers, or captions—leaving only the raw voices of the survivors scrawled in spray paint and chalk to tell the story of the disaster.
