Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina
The End of the World
New Orleans
by Cedric Faimali
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Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans at the end of August 2005. Cedric Faimali captured the scenes of devastation in
the following weeks. Here he presents his own landscapes of the abandoned parts of the Lower Ninth Ward,
interspersed with photographs that he found floating in the flood-water - ghostly images of some of the families whose
lives were smashed apart.
Photo album found in the remains of a house in the lower ninth ward of New Orleans. The
polluted water, in which the album was submerged for several weeks, damaged the photos.
May 2006
Abandoned shop, Desire Street, Upper Ninth ward. Janvier 2009.
Bar abandoned after the Katrina. Upper Ninth Ward.
Infront of an abandoned house in the Lower 9th ward, January 2009.
Abandoned house.
Foundations of a house swept away.
Abandoned shop with portrait of Barack Obama stuck to the wall. Janvier 2009.
Abandoned house in the Lower 9th Ward. Janvier 2009.
Photograph from the album of Cora Charles, 69 years old in
2009, Lower Ninth Ward, August 2005. Photograph depicts a
wedding.
Cora Charles’s photo album, 69 years old in 2009. Photograph
depicts a wedding.
Cora Charles’s photo album. Funeral.
Cora Charles’s photo album. An elderly woman in her sitting room.
Cora Charles’s photo album. Group photograph.
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