New Orleans July 2006 - Images | ARCHIVE ANTHONY SUAU

New Orleans, Louisiana.USA.July 27, 2006..Entrance to a New Orleans high school. The school sits empty in a district evacuated by hurricane Katrina and a break in the levees nearly one year earlier. The sign was posted on many high schools in New Orleans to deal with the high crime ate in the city.

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New Orleans, Louisiana.USA.July 27, 2006..The lower ninth ward nearly one year after hurricane Katrina hit and the levees broke leaving 80% of the city flooded. Homes close to the levee break have been removed leaving only the concrete slabs and the trees. Yet many of the home still remain just as they were after the water receded one year ago..

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New Orleans, Louisiana.USA.August 1, 2006..A view of the rebuilt levee in the lower ninth ward were the original levee broke one year earlier when it was hit by hurricane Katrina flooding 80% of the city..

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Long Beach, Mississippi.USA.July 30, 2006..A man sprays weeds on the remains of a beach home (owned by a friend) one year after it was hit by hurricane Katrina....

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New Orleans, Louisiana.USA.July 28, 2006..From a home in the Lake View area that was severely damaged by the levee break on the 17th street canal nearly one year after hurricane Katrina hit and the levees broke leaving 80% of the city flooded....

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New Orleans, Louisiana.USA.July 28, 2006..High fencing surrounds a housing project in central New Orleans keeping it closed to former residents nearly one year after hurricane Katrina hit and the levees broke leaving 80% of the city flooded...

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New Orleans, Louisiana.USA.July 27, 2006..A laundry mat in the lower ninth ward nearly one year after hurricane Katrina hit and the levees broke leaving 80% of the city flooded. Homes close to the levee break have been removed leaving only the concrete slabs and the trees. Yet many of the home still remain just as they were after the water receded one year ago..

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New Orleans, Louisiana.USA.July 27, 2006..A tire marks a hole in the street of a district that was flooded nearly one year after hurricane Katrina hit and the levees broke leaving 80% of the city flooded..

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New Orleans, Louisiana.USA.July 27, 2006..The activist group Common Ground, an organization of mostly out-of-state volunteers, gut a home for free in the 5th ward, an area that was heavily damaged by flooding, nearly one year after hurricane Katrina hit and the levees broke leaving 80% of the city flooded...

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$New Orleans, Louisiana.USA.July 28, 2006..Children in the 7th ward eat ice cream in the streets that now have a fraction of the population returning to live. This region was heavily damaged one year earlier hurricane Katrina hit and the levees broke leaving 80% of the city flooded. Within hours of this photo a quadruple homicide took place a few blocks from this street...$

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$New Orleans, Louisiana.USA.July 28, 2006..Children in the 7th ward eat ice cream in the streets that now have a fraction of the population returning to live. This region was heavily damaged one year earlier hurricane Katrina hit and the levees broke leaving 80% of the city flooded. Within hours of this photo a quadruple homicide took place a few blocks from this street....$

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$New Orleans, Louisiana.USA.July 28, 2006..Children in the 7th ward eat ice cream in the streets that now have a fraction of the population returning to live. This region was heavily damaged one year earlier hurricane Katrina hit and the levees broke leaving 80% of the city flooded. Within hours of this photo a quadruple homicide took place a few blocks from this street....$