Photographer Courtney Platt takes a moment to reminisce as he assembles his tripod on the soft green lawn of the Ocean Club complex in Prospect.
“All of this was rubble,” he marvels.
“There were coral boulders ripped off the reef that rolled right through this property and pulled up all this structure which became battering rams to tear this place down.”
An aerial photograph from Platt’s book ‘Paradise Interrupted’ shows condo units levelled by the 13-foot storm surge that swept across the south shore of Grand Cayman on 11 Sept. 2004.
Platt’s collection of photographs before, during and after Hurricane Ivan are perhaps the most comprehensive historical record of the carnage caused by the fateful storm.
In a partnership with the Cayman Compass to commemorate the anniversary, he reshot some of the most striking images from that book.
The new collection stands as fresh testimony of Cayman’s resilience. It also provides a chilling reminder of the extent to which we still live at the mercy of nature.
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