For most people, the only visible effects of the oil spill are on the ground. Photographer April Buffington took to the skies to document them from a different angle.
Whether it’s day or night, the area surrounding the French Quarter is alive with scenes waiting to be captured. Photographer Thaisi H. Da Silva walked the area in hopes of portraying these moments in different times of day.
Welcome to Treme, a New Orleans neighborhood with a rich African-American history, especially in music. The neighborhood is the setting for the hit HBO show of the same name.
Reforming the New Orleans Police Department is a lot like rebuilding a home after Katrina, said Mary Howell, 60, a civil rights attorney in New Orleans for over 30 years.
Brandon Franklin, a saxophonist and original member of a New Orleans brass band, has just died in a domestic dispute. Now the band tries to move on.
Blessed not to have been affected by the Gulf oil spill yet, the Barataria swamp and wetlands remain open to the Louisiana Swamp Tour.
The oil spill has affected an estimated 13,000 commercial licensed fishermen in Louisiana, not including deckhands and crew, according to the Louisiana State Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. An estimated one-third of those fishermen are immigrants from Southeast Asia. Many speak little or no English, and face the third major upheaval of their lives.
The city that played a major role in rock ’n’and roll, jazz and blues — think Armstrong, Bechet, Domino — never quite developed music into an industry. There’s little infrastructure and no large record labels or publishing houses. And, for many musicians, leaving New Orleans is essential to finding success.
In a small area of the Lower Ninth Ward, uncertainty about whether residents will rebuild the hundreds of homes destroyed during Hurricane Katrina has morphed into a debate over how it should be done.
As oil reaches the coastline, frustration grows among the residents of Venice, Louisiana. Now the town, which was just putting itself back together after Katrina, is forced to do it all over again. Except this time its residents are dealing with the frustration of having to replenish something much larger than their homes — the ocean.
