A tour of abandoned New Orleans, 10 years after Katrina - in pictures
A decade after Hurricane Katrina, abandoned homes, schools and factories still blot some New Orleans neighbourhoods. Photographer Seph Lawless, who specialises in documenting the ruins of forgotten America, paid a visit
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An abandoned home in the Broadmoor neighbourhood of New Orleans, an area badly flooded in the aftermath of Katrina
Photograph: Seph Lawless
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Furniture left to rot outside an abandoned hotel in the Lower 9th Ward
Photograph: Seph Lawless
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Walking among the ruins of a vast abandoned apartment complex in Arabi, Louisiana, part of the New Orleans metropolitan area
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A former home in New Orleans’ St Claude neighbourhood is slowly reclaimed by nature
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The Six Flags amusement park has been closed since the weekend before Katrina struck. It has become a well known urban exploration destination
Photograph: Seph Lawless
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Various redevelopment plans have fallen through and the park is currently getting used as a film location. The last movie to use the site was Jurassic World
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An abandoned school on Florida Avenue in the Lower 9th Ward
Photograph: Seph Lawless
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Inside a school in St Bernard Parish
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A corner shop in Flood Street in the Lower 9th Ward
Photograph: Seph Lawless
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Inside a former restaurant in 7th Ward
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A factory in North Miro Street
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A house in Dauphine Street in the Lower 9th Ward
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A house on South Claiborne Avenue
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An apartment complex in Arabi
Photograph: Seph Lawless
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Colourful new houses are being built in Lower 9th Ward near the Industrial Canal. In the foreground, concrete steps which would have led up to the porch are all that remains of someone’s home
Photograph: Seph Lawless
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