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Broken City

Broken City

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August 1, 2007 12:00 AM EDT

Photographer Kadir Van Lohuizen witnesses the sorrow of New Orleans.

Devastated Landscape

The Industrial Canal runs past the Lower Ninth Ward. The new flood wall can be seen on the left bank of the canal.KADIR VAN LOHUIZEN FOR TIME

Flood Wall

The Army Corps of Engineers finishes the levee along the 17th Street Canal.KADIR VAN LOHUIZEN FOR TIME

Inspection

An engineer from the Corps surveys the new flood barrier.KADIR VAN LOHUIZEN FOR TIME

In Session

Classes have resumed at a public high school in Elysian Fields.KADIR VAN LOHUIZEN FOR TIME

Still Closed

An adult education center on North Rampart Street remains shuttered.KADIR VAN LOHUIZEN FOR TIME

Decay

The remains of docks across from the city center have never been cleared or rebuilt.KADIR VAN LOHUIZEN FOR TIME

504 Girl

Thalita Haley, 14, who lost her home in the storm, carries a pair of its bricks back to her car.KADIR VAN LOHUIZEN FOR TIME

Memory

Thalita cries on the steps of the former neighborhood candy store.KADIR VAN LOHUIZEN FOR TIME

Waiting

Outside a bar on Frenchman Street.KADIR VAN LOHUIZEN FOR TIME

Just Maybe

Mardi Gras 2007 attracted over a half million people.KADIR VAN LOHUIZEN FOR TIME

Home?

Katrina evacuees live in government housing near an oil refinery.KADIR VAN LOHUIZEN FOR TIME

Abandoned

The Elysian Fields Housing Project.KADIR VAN LOHUIZEN FOR TIME

Hard Trip Home

Geneve Halley (left) moved to Houston after the storm. Her sister Nancy remained in the city.KADIR VAN LOHUIZEN FOR TIME

Derelict

The interior of a car abandoned in the Lower Ninth Ward.KADIR VAN LOHUIZEN FOR TIME

Final Resting Place?

Concrete sarcophagi, unearthed by the storm, remain unburied at a graveyard in St. Bernard Parish.KADIR VAN LOHUIZEN FOR TIME

Rebuilt

The new flood wall along the London Canal.KADIR VAN LOHUIZEN FOR TIME

After the Storm

Nathaniel Grant recovers family albums from his flooded home five months after Katrina.KADIR VAN LOHUIZEN FOR TIME

Renewal

The Grants drywall their home, eighteen months later.KADIR VAN LOHUIZEN FOR TIME

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