New Orleans remembers Hurricane Katrina's 14th anniversary

On Thursday, Aug. 29, 2019, Robert Green places a wreath in remembrance of his mother, Joyce, and granddaughter, Shanai, at the tree where his family home came off its foundation and floated down Tennessee Street in the Lower 9th Ward after the federal levee failures after Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005 in New Orleans. The family had to ride the roof and his mother and granddaughter did not survive the flood. Every year Green leads the Original Roof Top Riders second line to place a wreath on the anniversary of Katrina. This year the Da Truth Brass Band and Original Big Nine Social and Pleasure Club joined him and Big Chief Victor Harris, Spirit of the FiYiYi, of the Mandingo Warriors Mardi Gras Indians. Green was one of the first residents to return to the Lower 9th Ward and his home was replaced by actor Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation. Photo by Matthew Hinton

New Orleans remembers Hurricane Katrina’s 14th anniversary

Fourteen years after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, Aug, 29, 2005 remains freshly etched in the memory of nearly every New Orleanian.

by Matthew Hinton | August 30, 2019

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Fourteen years after Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, Aug, 29, 2005 remains freshly etched in the memory of nearly every New Orleanian.

Annually in the 9th Ward, residents remember those who lost their lives in a storm that forever changed the city.

Matthew Hinton

Matthew Hinton is a New Orleans area freelance photographer whose work has been recognized by the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) Best of Photojournalism Awards in 2014 and 2016, and by numerous awards from the Press Club of New Orleans, including the Hal Ledet President's Print Photography Award, the highest honor the Press Club can bestow upon a photographer.
Matthew Hinton has previously been a staff photographer at both of the daily newspapers in New Orleans. His work has appeared nationally and internationally through freelance work with the Associated Press and AFP, Agence France-Presse.