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New Orleans One Year After Hurricane Katrina

The following is a compilation of photographs I took during two visits to New Orleans in September, 2006 in preparation for the Reopening of the Louisiana Superdome. The city seemed very excited for this sign of rebirth, at the same time however, there is still great despair and the devastation is pervasive. It is incomprehensible that this is a major metropolitan community in 21st Century America. New Orleans needs America's help to rebuild. It is sad and it is embarrassing that this is our own country an entire year after the storm. As i drover through miles and miles of neighborhoods there are virtually no people walking and talking, no dogs barking, no children playing, no birds chirping. There are few businesses outside the downtown. No Gas Stations, No Drugstores, No Sears. The doctors have moved away. Hospitals are closed. And the hurricane left no socio-economic group untouched. The Lower Ninth Ward, the city's poorest, received a lot of justified attention, but middle class and upper middle class neighborhoods were left ravaged as well. If you have not made a trip to New Orleans, it is worth the visit. To support the City's economy -- yes the Casino is Open as are the restaurants in the French Quarter and the hotels downtown -- and to see what the Hurricane has left behind and what needs our support.

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