IN PICTURES: Hurricane Katrina 10 years on
In 2005, Hurricane Katrina triggered floods that inundated New Orleans and killed more than 1,500 people as storm waters overwhelmed levees and broke through floodwalls.
US Congress authorised spending more than US$14 billion to beef up the city's flood protection after Katrina and built a series of new barriers that include manmade islands and new wetlands.
After photographing events a decade ago, Reuters photographer Carlos Barria returned to New Orleans.
Using photos he took 10 years ago, Barria found the same locations that he documented originally and used the photos he took in 2005 to show the contrast of inundation then, and a city now still affected by the disaster.
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