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Items tagged “Gentilly” (55 total)

Of course when Katrina was on her way, my family, like many others, thought we would just…

Of course when Katrina was on her way, my family, like many others, thought we would just…

Damaged single-story house with a boarded-up window and partially stripped roof, two abandoned cars with broken windows parked in front behind a chain-link fence.

My old next door neighbor's home on the corner. This home was completely destroyed and is…

A street view from inside a vehicle showing a residential neighborhood with a vacant lot, a raised house with exterior stairs, utility poles, and a trash bin along the curb under a partly cloudy sky.

My old neighborhood and street shown in a previous photo and now 5 years after Katrina

A dusty, debris-covered residential street lined with bare trees and storm-damaged houses, a single red car kicking up dust as it drives away in the distance.

The street seems so hauntingly empty like a post-apocalyptic world.

A large fallen tree limb crushes the roof of a brick house, with storm debris scattered across the yard and yellow caution tape strung across the scene.

My neighbor's old house. Looks to be a complete loss but will survive to be rebuilt.

Row of single-story white houses marked with spray-painted search-and-rescue X symbols, a discarded recliner on the lawn, bare trees, and a dirt street with a truck bed in the foreground.

My neighbors' homes across the street. You can see the water line still evident on the…

A single-story beige house with a small porch and railing, flanked by a raised house on stilts to the right and a vacant lot with debris on the left, under a clear blue sky.

My old home rebuilt. Notice the neighbor on the right is raised on stilts. The home on the…

A two-story wood-frame house stands elevated on piers amid a cleared, debris-strewn lot, with a smaller house and empty street in the foreground under a clear sky.

The home on the corner which was so devastated with part of an Oak Tree on it has not been…

A raised white house with a wooden staircase leading to an elevated porch, a black pickup truck parked beneath on a concrete slab, surrounded by overgrown grass and weeds.

My neighbor's home across the street. The one in a previous picture with a water mark up…

Abandoned single-story house with a red spray-painted X search marker on its front door, flanked by bare trees, debris-strewn yard, and a neighboring home on a quiet residential street.

The complete devastation of my childhood home evident. It appears to have been searched…

Damaged house exterior with the garage door torn open, revealing a dark, debris-filled interior; the address "5769" is marked on the siding, with scaffolding visible in the foreground.

A pass by my childhood home shows the devastation of about 10 to 11 feet of water.

A small white single-story house, numbered 6056, stands overgrown with tall grass, weeds, and shrubs; its windows and doorway appear dark and empty, with some graffiti marks near the entrance.

This house is a gutted house on Wickfield Drive near Robert E. Lee. I did not originally…

A grassy levee slopes down to a canal lined with an industrial pumping station and flood gate structure, with buildings and a cell tower visible under a partly cloudy sky.

The 17th Street Canal and the New London Ave. Canal are drainage canals, which normally…

A brick, multi-story school building with a central bell tower topped by a cross, still surrounded by construction scaffolding, with a landscaped lawn and brick entrance wall in front.

Of course, homeowners and businesses are not the only property-owners struggling to…

Empty lot with a bare concrete slab foundation overgrown with weeds, flanked by surrounding houses and trees under a hazy sky.

When I was taking these photographs, I spoke to a Martin O'Connell, a professor of Earth…

A gutted house with a green-columned porch stands beside an empty concrete lot, with a white house further back nearly swallowed by overgrown trees and brush.

There are some sections of Gentilly that may revert to forest because they are so…

A renovated beige house stands beside a collapsing, gutted white house marked "5322" and "GAS OFF" in orange paint, with a dark sedan parked on the street.

These houses are on Warrington Drive near Filmore. The house on the left has been rebuilt…

A row of houses on Wildair Drive under a clear sky, including a small yellow cottage, white single-story homes, and two houses elevated on concrete pilings, with a wide grassy lawn in front.

These houses are on Wildair Drive. Again, we have a rebuilt house on the left, a gutted…

A residential street with a single-story yellow house, some boarded-up windows, and an overgrown empty lot, while a white pickup truck is parked nearby and elevated houses stand in the background.

These houses are on Wingate Drive near Robert E. Lee, where some of the most haphazard…

A quiet residential street with small houses in various states of repair, a dumpster, and a large blue "ONE New Orleans" sign reading "Our Recovery in Progress" with project details for Robert E. Lee Blvd. improvements.

This is a close-up of the previous shot. In fact, homeowners are receiving loans,…

A residential street in Gentilly with houses in various stages of repair, a truck and pickup parked along the road, utility poles with wires overhead, and an orange "Detour Ahead" sign near the Warrington Dr. street sign.

This is Robert E. Lee in the Gentilly neighborhood. This photograph was taken on the other…

A quiet, empty street lined with large brick houses and trees under a partly cloudy sky, with a bike lane marking visible on the pavement in the Lake Vista subdivision.

This is the Lake Vista subdivision in Lakeview, along Robert E. Lee near Spanish Fort and…

A tree-lined residential street with houses behind white picket fences, parked cars along the curb, and a "SCHOOL" marking painted on the pavement.

These houses are near the corner of Harrison Avenue and Canal Blvd. Every house in this…

A tree-lined street intersection in Lakeview with a "Lil' Easy 19" transit sign, parked cars, houses, and a commercial building under a partly cloudy sky.

This is a photograph of Robert E. Lee in the Lakeview neighborhood, on the northern side…

A large Gothic-style brick church tower with a streetcar on tracks along a tree-lined St. Charles Avenue, with parked cars and traffic cones nearby at dusk.

As a native New Orleanian, people from outside the city often ask me how much New Orleans…

Four Years After

Four Years After

A man stands dwarfed beneath the massive upturned root ball of a large uprooted oak tree, its tangled roots and bare branches towering above him amid scattered debris.

We live - yes are still here - in Gentilly. This is what used to be our 60 year old oak…

Blurry indoor photo of a woman in a white butterfly-print shirt dancing with raised hands, surrounded by several other people in a dimly lit room with a wooden door visible on the right.

BelindaDances

A man plays a wind instrument inside a gutted wood-frame house, lit by hanging candles, with windows, a makeshift display of plants and photos, and a red bucket nearby.

BenPlays

Black-and-white portrait photos of family members hang between exposed wall studs in a gutted house, alongside a large silhouette drawing of a woman with a drill and go cup.

FamiilyCUs

Small house-shaped cutouts made from salvaged political signs stand on wire stakes in a grassy yard, with a brick house and several people gathered on its porch in the background.

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Large-scale printed photograph of a man, cut into vertical strips and hung like a curtain inside a gutted, under-construction wooden-framed room with a window.

JoePhoto

A photograph of two women, Trish and Verna, smiling together is woven into a hole in an orange plastic safety fence, with a dark blurred interior visible behind it.

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Interior wall with exposed studs and mold-stained insulation, a strip of "Legion Oaks" tape marking the waterline, and torn "Home Insulation" packaging above.

LegionOaksWaterline

A white T-shirt displayed against a dark background, covered in black-and-white illustrations of figures, animals, and comic-style imagery drawn across the fabric.

Thomas Steve Thomas

Two side-by-side photos of a flood-damaged painting of a semi-nude woman, propped against exposed wall studs; the right version has sections outlined in white chalk marking areas chosen for restoration.

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Artificial turf arranged in curving, organic patterns across the wooden floor of a gutted, stripped-down room with exposed studs and framing.

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A gutted, wood-framed bathroom with a comic-illustrated t-shirt hanging from the ceiling beams above a window, alongside a bathtub, toilet, sink, and a tarnished metal screen on the tiled floor.

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Gutted interior room with exposed wood framing, a drooping ceiling fan, large black-and-white mural drawings of figures and houses on the walls, and a translucent photo panel of a man on the left.

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A large spherical sculpture made of orange plastic safety netting, embedded with small photographs, hangs suspended inside a gutted room with exposed wooden studs and a tiled floor.

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Three smiling adults pose indoors, a man in a black shirt with his arms around two women, one in a butterfly-print top holding a red cup, the other in glasses and a cream shawl holding a plate of food.

RobtBelVerna

Pink-painted brick house with a covered porch and address "1508," a man standing in the open doorway, and rows of house-shaped metal yard signs in blue, gray, and red planted in the front lawn.

HouseExt

Three candles mounted atop glass and plastic bottles hang from wires in a dark, exposed-beam structure, their flames glowing against the shadowed wooden framework.

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Two men install a large strip-cut photographic portrait in a wooden structure, one standing and applying adhesive to the strips while the other crouches below holding them in place.

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Interior of a gutted, unfinished wooden house with bare studs and windows, featuring an art installation of candles in bottles hanging from the ceiling, plastic bags, and a suitcase overflowing with plants and old photographs on the floor.

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Faded color snapshot of a man crouching between two young children in matching checkered outfits on a lawn, with parked cars and a house in the background.

Derek and Kelly Cumminskey with father David on Easter, Gentilly, 1971. New Orleans. This…

Vintage photograph of a man and woman standing arm-in-arm outside a home, with bare trees and a house visible in the background, the image faded and worn with age.

Louis and Clara Jobert outside their home on Marigny Street in Gentilly, 1950's. New…

Black-and-white photo of a group of children in a backyard playing cowboys and indians, with one boy drawing back a bow and arrow while others, some with face paint and headbands, kneel and watch.

Neighborhood kids playing cowboys and indians, Gentilly, 1950's. New Orleans. This image…

Black-and-white group photo of neighborhood children posed on and around a playground slide, with a corrugated-metal shed and monkey bars in the background.

Neighborhood kids in Gentilly, early 1950's. New Orleans. This image was collected in a…

A red flatbed truck with tires in its bed sits parked on a grassy roadside in a quiet residential street lined with houses, trees, and utility poles.

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