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New Orleans Residents for the Weather Channel { 11 images } Created 13 Sep 2015

Portraits of New Orleans residents for the Weather Channels - Part of the their Katrina 10 year anniversary coverage Here is a link to 'Changing Neighborhoods' with video portraits of those photographed. The video were shot in collaboration with Phin Percy Jr. http://katrina.weather.com/chapter/changing-neighborhoods/
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  • BYWATER: SKIP HENDERSON<br />
Skip Henderson, a homeowner in the Bywater, is a non-profit professional and is the co-founder of the Bywater Community Development Corporation, Founder and Board Co-Chair of the Mt. Zion Memorial Fund, and a co-founder of the Bywater Bone Boys Mardi Gras Skeleton Krewe. The Bywater is on slightly higher elevation than most of the Ninth Ward and was spared the worst of the flooding during Katrina. It is popular with the city's artists.
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  • Blues master Little Freddie King is a renter in the Upper Ninth Ward, a historically black neighborhood that was severely flooded during Katrina. Katrina destroyed King's apartment and his belongings. After Katrina, Habitat for Humanity worked with Harry Connick Jr. and Branford Marsalis to build Musicians’ Village, where King was invited to live.
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  • A Mid-City resident who moved to New Orleans in 2010, Jim Seely is an entrepreneur specializing in urban farming. His farm, Paradine Gardens, services fine-dining spots in the city. Mid-City is a centrally located neighborhood with less tourist traffic than much of the city. It has a diverse, largely blue-collar population.
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  • New Orleans native Cecile Tebo is Director of the Officer Assistance Program with the New Orleans Police Department and was Commander of the New Orleans Police Department Crisis Unit during Hurricane Katrina. Since the storm, Cecile has promoted awareness of the plight of the mentally ill in New Orleans. She currently lives in the Marigny neighborhood.
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  • French Quarter resident Brobson Lutz has lived in New Orleans since 1969. He is a doctor and was formerly the city’s health director. The French Quarter is the oldest neighborhood in New Orleans and, being located above sea level, is prime real estate in the city. It is the city’s main destination for tourists and is famous for its raucous nightlife.
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  • Pamela Reed is a renter in the Tulane-Gravier neighborhood. An artist from Arizona who specializes in wedding photography, she moved to New Orleans in 2009, drawn to the city for its culture. She is now shopping for a home to buy so she can remain in New Orleans for the rest of her life.
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  • Min Yang lives in the Lakeview neighborhood and owns numerous properties in New Orleans. Born in Korea, he grew up in New Orleans then spent two decades working as an architect in New York City. He returned to New Orleans after Katrina and now redevelops older buildings and is active in the communities he has invested in. Parts of Lakeview were badly flooded during Katrina, but the area, which is affluent, has generally recovered.
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  • Burnell Cotlon is a business owner in Lower Ninth Ward, a New Orleans native who returned to rebuild his home, then used his life savings to build the only supermarket in the area. The Lower Ninth Ward, historically a working class African-American neighborhood, experienced catastrophic flooding during Katrina due to levee breaks. The area has been among the slowest in the city to rebuild since Katrina.
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  • Eric Baehr is a homeowner in Gentilly and a New Orleans native. He has worked as a police officer for 23 years and served in the National Guard during the first Iraq war. He lived in Lakeview before the storm but now lives with his wife, Allison Braxton, in Gentilly, a middle-class and racially diverse neighborhood. Many of the neighborhood's homes were badly damaged from breaches in the city’s floodwalls and many in the neighborhood are still struggling to rebuild.
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  • New Orleans native Allison Braxton, a former TV anchor, is now a court reporter and homeowner in Gentilly. She met and married Eric Baehr post-Katrina. Gentilly is a middle-class and racially diverse neighborhood. Many of the neighborhood's homes were badly damaged from breaches in the city’s floodwalls and many in the neighborhood are still struggling to rebuild.
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  • Hank Bart is a homeowner in Northwest Carrollton. A New Orleans native, Hank is the head of Tulane University's Biodiversity Research Institute and is a world-renowned ichthyologist. Northwest Carrollton is home to many middle to upper class families and young professionals. As it's on slightly higher ground than much of the city, it did not experience widespread flooding during Katrina.
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