 
New Orleans, LA 2007. A church in the 9th ward was destroyed by hurricane Katrina and has not been touched two years later.
Saint Rita's nursing home. This nursing home was in eastern Saint Bernard Parish, where the water line was more than halfway up the windows. About 40 residents were believed to have died when the facility flooded during Katrina. The owners ignored the Parish's evacuation orders and refused offers by the Parish to send buses to evacuate the facility. When one looks at the mud-soaked doll one can only imagine the horrifying scene in which torrents of water engulfed the nursing home, trapping most of its residents in the space of just twenty minutes. Some of the victims tried to escape by breaking the windows, but the water came in so fast and continuously that they were drowned before they could make it out.
Bay St Louis, Mississippi. Beatles (right) and her friend (left). The site where Beatles plantation house once stood. Beatles is attending Rhode Island School of Design as an Illustrations major. After her friends house was destroyed, her family bought another house down the road in pass christian Mississippi.
New Orleans, LA. 2007. People are burning their houses to collect insurance money.
Bayou La Batre, Alabama. 2007. A family of migrant workers up from Texas looking for work on shrimp and oyster boats. But do to the destruction of hurricane Katrina, its nearly impossible to find work. They are struggling to make ends meet.
New Orleans, LA, 2007
This group of people were evacuated to Texas from their home in the 9th ward after hurricane Katrina. This is the first time they have returned to their home to see what is left of it. Unfortunately the only think left was a couple of bricks.
Gulf Coast Mississippi. The Hotel Days Inn Sign is still damaged two years after hurricane Katrina. 2007
Bayou La Batre, Alabama. Rickie, 35 year old Cambodian immigrant. Has lived here for 17 years. He worked on the shrimp boats year-round before the storm, he now finds work in the packing factories. The white clapboard house he rents is no longer livable and is marked with a large "X" on the front door, indicating its eventual demise. For the time being he, his wife and six children live behind the house in two trailers. Somehow, he managed to make it through the storm but is anxiously looking for another house to rent.
Coden, Alabama 2007. Joanette (left) and Tequeela (right).
The relief workers told Joanette that prison was her home. After all, she was locked up in the women?s prison just outside Mobile, AL when Hurricane Katrina came to Coden, a fishing community adjoined to the larger town of Bayou La Batre.
There had been a kitchen fire in her home which the firefighters accused her of starting for insurance money. She denied the charge but accepted the guilty plea anyway. Two and a half years later, she returned home to an empty lot where her house once stood. Now, she and her daughter Tequeela exist precariously in a rusted trailer donated by a friend, surrounded by mounds of trash and human waste.
?Just before they let me go, I had a stroke in my leg,? she explains, while sitting in a bent folding chair outside the trailer, next to Tequeela. ?I want some money, some help for what happened to my house and then I?m going to leave. There?s nothing for me here now.?
New Orleans, LA. 2007. The Lower 9th Ward, the destroyed science lab of a school.
New Orleans, LA. 2007. The Port of New Orleans, two years after hurricane Katrina, parts of it have begun to be rebuilt two years later. (When the levee broke, my baby lost her red shoes.)
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