In 2005, Hurricane Katrina decimated New Orleans – but the true horror lay in the government’s failure to protect the city’s people, resulting in some 1,200 deaths. Catastrophe struck in the storm’s aftermath, with over one million people from the central Gulf Coast displaced across the United States, some still stranded in FEMA-provided trailers more than five years after the storm. But over time, the people of New Orleans returned home, rebuilding their city and restoring the culture to its glory.
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“A connection that was made through this trauma with each other. It’s forced them to be really creative. Living through that really inspires people. I feel like they are luminaries,” says photographer Akasha Rabut, author of the new book, Death Magick Abundance(Anthology), a mesmerising portrait of the post-Katrina generation in New Orleans made over the past decade. “People here live everyday like it’s their last day and that’s beautiful to me. Everybody here is very friendly and there’s a real sense of community. We have a lack of infrastructure here and the people are the ones taking care of each other.”
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