10 from 10 Katrina

This weeks marks the 10th anniversary of hurricane Katrina making landfall in New Orleans and Louisiana.
Here are some images I shot from various New Orleans parishes back then.

Photos by Ted Soqui ©

Lower 9th Ward.

Sunrise in the Lower 9th.

The Lower 9th.

Lower 9th.

St. Bernard's Parish.

Church in the Lower 9th.

French Quarter.

The Lower 9th.

Lower 9th.

Lane street in Lakeview.

Former NOLA Mayor Nagin Sentenced to 10 Years

Former mayor of New Orleans, Ray Nagin, was sentenced today to 10 years in federal prison for taking bribes and fraud related charges in the rebuilding of his city after Hurricane Katrina.
Nagin accepted gifts and money from businessmen vying for contracts to rebuild the storm ravaged city.
Much of the city has not been rebuilt and still in ruins.

Photos by Ted Soqui © 2014

Mayor Nagin at an one year Katrina anniversary.

The Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans one year after Katrina.

Katrina 5 Years ago

Horse in tree, Plaquemines Parish.

New Orleans skyline.

5th Ward.

Lower 9th Ward.

1st post Katrina Mardis Gras celebration, New Orleans.

Flooded New Orleans.

Lower 9th Ward.

Waiting for the Zulu King.

Lower 9th Ward.

Lower 9th Ward.

I first arrived to New Orleans as the dark waters that flooded the city began to recede, revealing a broken city that would change it forever.

Hurricane Katrina just battered the area, and the antiquated levees were left mangled. New Orleans was totally evacuated, with the exception of a hardy few, turning it in to a massive urban ghost town.

The last thing I heard from a New Orleans taxi cab driver taking me to the airport was "Bill Clinton wouldn't have left us hanging." New Orleans and southern Louisiana was left hanging. With or without FEMA or the Bush administration, New Orleans is bouncing back.

We back!

Ted Soqui © 2005-2006