For so many people in New Orleans, the road home has been long and difficult. In almost every neighborhood in town you’ll find blighted, hollow shells of former homes. Some still have markings from Katrina search crews. It’s not unusual to find gutted, empty buildings standing next door to beautiful new homes. Good neighbors take...
So in July 2010 I was back in New Orleans for a conference, and I took a little time to grab shots of Canal Street in the CBD and a couple down New Orleans Avenue in Mid-City. You can definitely see progress downtown, and it looks like a lot of the roadwork is being done...
If you drive through the Gentilly neighborhood of New Orleans today, the scene looks similar to 2007 and 2008, when I took the photos below. The Milne Boys Home (top left) is still hollow, with plans for renovation scheduled sometime in the next year or two. Gentilly struggled to rebuild as much as any neighborhood...
October 2006: The city lights shine bright at 11PM as we sneak photos from Algiers Point Levee on the West Bank. The City that Care Forgot became the City that Volunteers Rebuilt. While the Central Business District and French Quarter were quickly returning to pre-Katrina normalcy, the rest of the town remained dark. Crime increased...
In September 2006 my friend Blaize and I went over to Paris Avenue near our church gathering place and took photos of the dead trees lining the street. On the left you can see the eerie scene, straight out of a horror show. Empty. Dead. The city ripped up the trees several months later. Last...
