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Abandoned boom along Bay Jimmy in Louisiana highlights this photo shot by the Gulf Restoration Network.  It was the nonprofit partner of Voodoo Weekend earlier this month where Big Sam, Tab and Cyril with VOW performed in New Orleans’ City Park.

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———– Gulf Restoration Network was the nonprofit partner of Voodoo Weekend earlier this month where Big Sam, Tab and Cyril with VOW performed in New Orleans’ City Park.

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Photo by Bobby Moon; used with permission.

Here’s a photo of a study of a fisherman’s hands that California photographer Bobby Moon took during his eight-day trip across the Gulf coast in October.

This photo shows the hands of “Mike,” a commercial fisherman who urged Bobby and writer Frank Barnwell to avoid eating the seafood from the area around Venice, La.

“From Mike we heard some of the other conspiracy theories we had heard from others during the trip, and we heard how let down by the government, even by the President himself, he felt. It was all broken promises, according to Mike. He is one who believes that the initial explosion was deliberate, all part of a grand scheme to draw attention to deep water drilling. Even one of the hurricanes that was supposed to be a threat this past summer (whose name he couldn’t remember)… well, that all part of the conspiracy too.”

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Photographer Bobby Moon of Los, Gatos, Calif., spent Eight Days in the Gulf last month to highlight what was happening in the region six months after the Gulf oil disaster.

Moon, whose other projects can be found here, and Frank Brightwell offered these insights on the final day of their tour of the Gulf coast, Day Eight (Oct. 25), which was spent where they began — in and around Gulfport, Miss.:

“On our way from town to the airport we took a final swing by the beach. A clean-up crew, antiseptically wrapped in protective garb, was busy wiping rock after rock with appeared to be large paper towels. Beyond them floated the now familiar yellow booms. There had to be at least two dozen of the workers, all busy cleaning the oil—or not cleaning it, depending on who you believed.

“The people we encountered every day for the past Eight Days had been extraordinarily gracious with us, often opening their lives to us and sharing with us their hopes and dreams and fears. We had traversed a large area and along the way found many communities still trying to recover from a storm whose fury most of us will never appreciate. We learned of the love of fishermen for their work, their boats and the water. And we discovered the culture of the oil workers, men and women who sometimes give their lives, as eleven of them did on April 20, so that we can fuel our cars.

“We witnessed oil on beaches and saw the undeniable aftermath of the man-made storm. Regardless of point of view, the oil spill has been a major event in the lives of these proud people. People are waiting, as if for a good storm. They wait for some semblance of order, for a rebirth, for healing. Mostly they wait for answers and for truth.”

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Image by Bobby Moon.  Not for republication.  Used by permission.

Photographer Bobby Moon of Los, Gatos, Calif., spent Eight Days in the Gulf last month to highlight what was happening in the region six months after the Gulf oil disaster.

Moon, whose other projects can be found here, and Frank Brightwell offered these insights on Day Seven, Oct. 24, which was spent in and around Venice and Port Sulphur, La., :

“The day started with coffee at the Riverside Restaurant. There, Sissy was happy to answer our questions about the oil leak and its impact on this small community. Most of the recent customers were people working on the clean up, we learned. Good people, hard working people. But none of them are local. “They laid off my husband after four days.” From her perspective, two things were important: “My husband and I are still waiting for our check,” she said. “And I just want the truth sometimes. I just want to know what’s going on.” And that was our sentiment as well. For the past twenty-four hours, we felt that we were not getting the whole story. It was as if a veil had been draped over the entire community and we were on the wrong side. What is the story? Where lies the truth?”

Visit Bobby Moon’s photography Web site with several interesting projects.

Send your images to BetterGulf.org today

See the latest news for free at GulfSpillClips.com

Image by Bobby Moon.  Not for republication.  Used by permission.