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Kevin PedeauxPhotographs

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Damage and Repair

What was falling apart before 2005, what the storm broke, and the memorials and rebuilding after.

19 photographs

Holy Trinity church with two bell towers and stained walls under a heavy sky
Holy Trinity Falls ApartBefore
White statue of Mary seen through a chain-link fence beside the closed Holy Trinity church
Holy Mother Behind FenceBefore
The fire-damaged apse of a church with plaster burned off the dome, in sepia
Burned Altar2005 · Before
A peeling white window frame with a fan visible in the dark room inside
Fan Through Broken Window2005 · Before
A boarded and tagged raised wooden restaurant building at West End, black and white
Ragin Cajun2005 · Before
One person walking down a road between flattened houses and bare trees
Devastation Walk on Girard St2005 · The Storm
A pile of splintered lumber from a destroyed house with a kitchen sink on top
Everything and the Kitchen Sink2005 · The Storm
A storm-damaged two-story Victorian house, black and white
House Needs Repair2005 · The Storm
The New Canal lighthouse beside wrecked buildings at West End
New Basin Canal Disaster2005 · The Storm
The standing columns of Windsor Ruins in Mississippi, black and white
Windsor Ruins2005 · The Storm
A crowd gathered along the repaired floodwall at the 17th Street Canal with cranes behind
17th Canal Breach2006 · One Year On
A protester under an American flag holding a sign beside workers in hard hats
Holding the Corps Accountable2006 · One Year On
A red frame of a house with red chairs and a sign reading I am coming home, I will rebuild
Returning to the 9th Ward2006 · One Year On
A granite memorial engraved with names, angled against blue sky
Katrina Names2006 · One Year On
Bare wooden roof ribs of a gutted church, in sepia
St. John's Church After Katrina2007 · The Long Recovery
A weathered brick building with shuttered windows and one man walking past
French Quarter Needs Repair2007 · The Long Recovery
Rusted grinders and pipes inside the old American Coffee Company plant
Grinding Power2011 · The Long Recovery
A collapsing wooden house overgrown with young trees behind a fence
Still Delap2015 · Ten Years On
A sagging wooden balcony with two tall windows on a weathered house, toned
Droopy Balcony2017 · Ten Years On

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