A welder removes a piece of one of the cranes in preparation of the demolition of the main Hard Rock Hotel collapse site in New Orleans, La. Tuesday, May 26, 2020. The crane was impaled into N. Rampart Street after the two cranes were dynamited last year. The cranes were leaning and would have liked fallen on their own if not dynamited / imploded. Workers Anthony “Bubba” Magrette, Jose Ponce Arreola, and Quinnyon “Q” Wimberly, lost their lives in the partial collapse of the Hard Rock Hotel construction site on October 12, 2019. The bodies of Arreola and Wimberly have yet to be recovered from the collapse site. Photo by Matthew Hinton

PHOTOS: Demolition begins at the site of the Hard Rock Hotel Collapse

Crews began the daunting task for demolishing the remnants of the Hard Rock Hotel collapse on May 15.

by Matthew Hinton | May 27, 2020

Crews began the daunting task for demolishing the remnants of the Hard Rock Hotel collapse on May 15. The collapse happened in Oct. 2019, killing three workers.  The bodies of two of them, Quinnyon Wimberly and Jose Ponce Arreola, are still trapped inside the collapse site.

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Matthew Hinton

Matthew Hinton

Matthew Hinton is a New Orleans area freelance photographer whose work has been recognized by the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) Best of Photojournalism Awards in 2014 and 2016, and by numerous awards from the Press Club of New Orleans, including the Hal Ledet President's Print Photography Award, the highest honor the Press Club can bestow upon a photographer.
Matthew Hinton has previously been a staff photographer at both of the daily newspapers in New Orleans. His work has appeared nationally and internationally through freelance work with the Associated Press and AFP, Agence France-Presse.

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