Sixteen months after Katrina this little house on Canal Boulevard in New Orleans remains just as it was when the water receded. There were about 200,000 houses that sat in water for days and weeks and along the stretch from I-610 to Lake Pontchartrain very few of them have been restored. Once a bustling and prestigious area it now sits quiet and dark.
Whenever I photograph scenes like this I wonder "where are the people who lived here?" and "what are their lives like where they are now?" Sometimes I think I may wake up from this nightmare--the nightmare of Katrina that destroyed a way of life, a joie de vivre, and almost an entire City.