. >> new orleans has long ranked as one of america's deadliest cities, jonathan ferrara was compelledo create this exhibit. >> you have conversations about the second amendment. you have conversations about murder. you have conversations about solutions, you have conversations about who cares. >> consider the artists from around the country use decommissioned firearms taken off the city streets as raw materials. ferrara had to work closely with the new orleans police department. >> when i walked in they said, you whatnot to do what with these guns? i met with the evidence department and selected 186 guns. >> this chain is made from slices of the barrel of a shotgun. >> debra lester is afternoon award winning photographer, her mother was killed in a home invasion more than 20 years ago. >> if you ask a question there's another person on the other side. >> another piece called one hot month uses guns superimposed over 30 faces, summer of 2002 where someone was murdered nearly every day in new orleans. >> first you see the guns and then you see the faces of the people and then you realiz

jonathan ferrara, says if these conversations can happen in a room filled with art that's a step in the right direction. jonathan martin, al jazeera, new orleans. >> now to our interview with gay talese. one of his major works, the bridge, chronicals the building of verrazano bridge. here are some thoughts how he thinks journalism has changed for better or worse. >> what i do respect most about being a journalist, of all the professions including the medical profession and the business profession and the clerical profession, within journalism you have people in larger number trying to avoid lies. lies are so much a part of business life and educational life and political life and certainly wall street, even the clergy. i think per square yard there are fewer liars in a journalism city room than in any other comparable space environment. fewer liars. when there are liars such as jason blare of the new york times a few years ago there are people within the office that call him out and fire him. you have to admire the quest for truth. the profession is trying to get to the truth and i thin