The sinister abandoned amusement park Jazzland
In August 2005, the world watched in horror as Hurricane Katrina destroyed everything in its path in the state of Louisiana, causing the dam system in New Orleans to fail, and 80% of the city was flooded with muddy water. Jason Andrew was one of the millions of people who were then glued to the TV screens. On TV, people in New Orleans waited for help on the roofs of their flooded houses, abandoned and trapped. Two years later, Jason found himself in a flooded New Orleans amusement park, which at that time few people knew about.
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1. Jason traveled to New Orleans with the intention of filming people, loneliness and apocalyptic scenes, but among other things he discovered Jazzland, a once-thriving amusement park.
2. Jazzland is completely different from the rest of New Orleans. This place impressed the photographer so much that he decided to dedicate his photo project to it.
3. "Frost on the skin" - this is how an American photographer described being in this amazing place. “Shops still have souvenirs and soft toys, eyes that follow you like ghosts from the past.”
4. Everything is covered in dirt and mold, the toys look like someone's forgotten childhood memories.
5. The fact that this “swag” was abandoned gave Jason the feeling that the park was not flooded, but radioactive, scenes almost similar to scenes from Pripyat.
6. The park remains untouched, as if ready to open for children on one of the warm summer days that will never come.
7. However, the local territory is slowly but surely captured by the Louisiana swamp.
8. In a park that was once filled with laughter and joy, now only the chirping of crickets and the whistling of the wind are heard.
9. Jazzland - the footprint of Hurricane Katrina and a symbol of the fact that Americans were unable to recover from a natural disaster.
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Keywords: Abandoned | New orleans | Amusement park