After The Rain Fell
A photo essay exploring the lives and culture of New Orleans, Louisiana 20 years after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
Joey:
“I lived here in New Orleans prior to Katrina. I’ve moved around a bit and spent many years in the US Navy based over in San Diego.
Katrina was terrible, almost 20 years ago now, but the city always rebounds from disaster. We come together and we help each other however we can. My son took a job here to help out with the oil spill in The Gulf in 2010 and saw that as my opportunity to come back and I settled here on Algiers Point.
I’ve just been touching up some painting on my house. It’s a wonderful community and neighbourhood here - we gotta keep it lookin’ beautiful.
My son left town, but there’s no way I could leave this city.”
Kendra:
"Yeah I was born and raised here in New Orleans.
It's a wonderful city - there's community and people are respectful and celebrate diversity; like in the LGBTQ community. We're welcoming people, those who don't want to share love and peace, well I say to them "ain't nobody making you stay here!"
Hurricanes hit our community hard - we had Katrina, but we had so much to come back for."
Dave:
"The water is incredibly high right now.
We've got another week of rain storms coming in. This city's no stranger to flooding though. Hurricane Laura took the roof off my house. But that's nothing compared to when Katrina hit. We're still recovering from that."
Peggy-lou:
"You gotta keep your head up here.
New Orleans is a great place to be.
It isn't the city to come with your head down in your phone. You just don't know who you'll meet, what you'll see and experience."