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  • 7th Oct, 2005. Hurricane Katrina aftermath, New Orleans, Louisiana. 'Body Inside.' The stark spray paint on the outside of a house in Uptown New Orleans. A tape attached to the panel reads 'Removed 9.19.05 Kenyon.' Kenyon are the private contractors hired by the city to pick up corpses left behind after the storm.
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  • 07 Oct, 2005.  New Orleans, Louisiana. Hurricane Katrina aftermath.<br />
'Body Inside.' The stark spray paint on the outside of a house in Uptown New Orleans. A tape attached to the panel reads 'Removed 9.19.05 Kenyon.' Kenyon are the private contractors hired by the city to pick up corpses left behind after the storm. <br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 07 Oct, 2005.  New Orleans, Louisiana. Hurricane Katrina aftermath.<br />
'Body Inside.' The stark spray paint on the outside of a house in Uptown New Orleans. A tape attached to the panel reads 'Removed 9.19.05 Kenyon.' Kenyon are the private contractors hired by the city to pick up corpses left behind after the storm. <br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 01 October, 05.  New Orleans, Louisiana. Lower 9th ward. Hurricane Katrina aftermath. <br />
The remnants of the lives of ordinary folks, now covered in mud as the flood waters recede. Humane society of U.S. graffiti shows one cat removed from a flood ravaged home.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 16 September 2014. New Orleans, Louisiana.<br />
Orleans Parish School Board meeting. Celebrations as Lycee Francais is approved to purchase the old blighted Priestley School to redevelop the building into a state of the art school. <br />
Photo Credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    16sept14-OPSB Lycee001.JPG
  • 21 February 2014. New Orleans, Louisiana.<br />
A Banksy original street graffiti artwork known as 'Rain Girl' is chopped from a wall. A considerably irrational and unpleasant 'private art handler' from Los Angeles, giving his name only as Chris has prepared the wall for removal from an old abandoned store in New Orleans on the corner of North Rampart and Kerlerec streets. Chris claims the artwork is to be shipped to London for a Tate Modern retrospective of Banksy's work in April. Chris also claims the artwork will be re-installed at its current location once the exhibition is finished - a claim local residents seriously doubt.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    21feb14-Banksy004.JPG
  • 21 February 2014. New Orleans, Louisiana.<br />
A Banksy original street graffiti artwork known as 'Rain Girl' is chopped from a wall. A considerably irrational and unpleasant 'private art handler' from Los Angeles, giving his name only as Chris has prepared the wall for removal from an old abandoned store in New Orleans on the corner of North Rampart and Kerlerec streets. Chris claims the artwork is to be shipped to London for a Tate Modern retrospective of Banksy's work in April. Chris also claims the artwork will be re-installed at its current location once the exhibition is finished - a claim local residents seriously doubt.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    21feb14-Banksy003.JPG
  • 21 February 2014. New Orleans, Louisiana.<br />
A considerably irrational and unpleasant 'private art handler' from Los Angeles, giving his name only as Chris chops an original Banksy from the wall of an old abandoned store in New Orleans on the corner of North Rampart and Kerlerec street. Chris claims the artwork is to be shipped to London for a Tate Modern retrospective of Banksy's work in April. Chris also claims the artwork will be re-installed at its current location once the exhibition is finished - a claim local residents seriously doubt.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    21feb14-Banksy006.JPG
  • 25 February 2014. New Orleans, Louisiana.<br />
My image makes front page Times Picayune street edition........<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    25feb14-Banksy cuts001.JPG
  • 21 February 2014. New Orleans, Louisiana.<br />
A considerably irrational and unpleasant 'private art handler' from Los Angeles, giving his name only as Chris chops an original Banksy known as 'Rain Girl' from the wall of an old abandoned store in New Orleans on the corner of North Rampart and Kerlerec streets. Chris claims the artwork is to be shipped to London for a Tate Modern retrospective of Banksy's work in April. Chris also claims the artwork will be re-installed at its current location once the exhibition is finished - a claim local residents seriously doubt.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    21feb14-Banksy001.JPG
  • 21 February 2014. New Orleans, Louisiana.<br />
A considerably irrational and unpleasant 'private art handler' from Los Angeles, giving his name only as Chris chops an original Banksy known as 'Rain Girl' from the wall of an old abandoned store in New Orleans on the corner of North Rampart and Kerlerec streets. Chris claims the artwork is to be shipped to London for a Tate Modern retrospective of Banksy's work in April. Chris also claims the artwork will be re-installed at its current location once the exhibition is finished - a claim local residents seriously doubt.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    21feb14-Banksy002.JPG
  • 24 February 2014. New Orleans, Louisiana.<br />
<br />
As reported in The Sun, London.<br />
<br />
Banksy ‘thieves’ busted cutting original grafitti art work from shop wall<br />
<br />
By JACK LOSH<br />
Last Updated: 24th February 2014<br />
<br />
A BOGUS construction crew were chased off after they were busted cutting an original Banksy from a wall.<br />
One of the gang, who called himself Chris, was caught holding a power drill half-way through extracting the work by the British street artist.<br />
<br />
Hidden by a temporary wall of plywood, he told snapper Charlie Varley that the 2008 artwork – dubbed “Umbrella Girl” – would be shipped to London for a Tate Modern retrospective of Banksy’s career.<br />
He added that it would be re-installed at its current location on the side of an abandoned store in New Orleans, US, once the exhibition had finished.<br />
<br />
But when local residents quizzed the men and ordered them to show a permit for the operation, they packed up their equipment and scarpered.<br />
A security guard was installed at the scene on Friday to make sure the suspected thieves did not return.<br />
Clay Lapeyrouse, who lives nearby, said: “They were cutting it out of the building. The story they gave me just seemed weird."<br />
<br />
Police are now hunting the suspects, aged between 25 and 35, following the incident.<br />
Banksy’s work fetches huge sums at auction, with his Kissing Coppers mural going under the hammer for £345,000 in the US last week.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 23 February 2014. New Orleans, Louisiana.<br />
Scene of the crime. The building where thieves attempted to chop a Banksy original painting from the wall of an old abandoned store in New Orleans on the corner of North Rampart and Kerlerec street. The building will be guarded 24 hours a day for the time being.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    23feb14-Banksy Security010.JPG
  • 23 February 2014. New Orleans, Louisiana.<br />
Scene of the crime. The building where thieves attempted to chop a Banksy original painting from the wall of an old abandoned store in New Orleans on the corner of North Rampart and Kerlerec street. The building will be guarded 24 hours a day for the time being.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    23feb14-Banksy Security008.JPG
  • 23 February 2014. New Orleans, Louisiana.<br />
Claudia Woods, a guard with District Security guards a boarded up Banksy original painting after audacious thieves attempted to chop the artwork from the wall of an old abandoned store in New Orleans on the corner of North Rampart and Kerlerec street. The building will be guarded 24 hours a day for the time being.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    23feb14-Banksy Security004.JPG
  • 23 February 2014. New Orleans, Louisiana.<br />
Claudia Woods, a guard with District Security guards a boarded up Banksy original painting after audacious thieves attempted to chop the artwork from the wall of an old abandoned store in New Orleans on the corner of North Rampart and Kerlerec street. The building will be guarded 24 hours a day for the time being.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    23feb14-Banksy Security003.JPG
  • 23 February 2014. New Orleans, Louisiana.<br />
Claudia Woods, a guard with District Security guards a boarded up Banksy original painting after audacious thieves attempted to chop the artwork from the wall of an old abandoned store in New Orleans on the corner of North Rampart and Kerlerec street. The building will be guarded 24 hours a day for the time being.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    23feb14-Banksy Security012.JPG
  • 23 February 2014. New Orleans, Louisiana.<br />
Claudia Woods, a guard with District Security guards a boarded up Banksy original painting after audacious thieves attempted to chop the artwork from the wall of an old abandoned store in New Orleans on the corner of North Rampart and Kerlerec street. The building will be guarded 24 hours a day for the time being.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    23feb14-Banksy Security011.JPG
  • 06 March 2014. New Orleans, Louisiana.<br />
<br />
Christopher Sensabaugh of Los Angeles "was identified as the person who attempted to steal a Banksy work from 1034 N. Rampart, by drilling the mural out of the wall," according to an email from NOPD. <br />
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"Sensabaugh is currently wanted for attempted theft and criminal damage to property," according to the NOPD, which stated that the graffiti was worth " $200,000 to $1.1 million dollars."<br />
<br />
Photo; Courtesy New Orleans Police Department.<br />
Charlie Varley/varleypix.com<br />
<br />
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2014/03/alleged_banksy_art_bandit_in_p.html
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  • 23 February 2014. New Orleans, Louisiana.<br />
Scene of the crime. The building where thieves attempted to chop a Banksy original painting from the wall of an old abandoned store in New Orleans on the corner of North Rampart and Kerlerec street. The building will be guarded 24 hours a day for the time being.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    23feb14-Banksy Security009.JPG
  • 23 February 2014. New Orleans, Louisiana.<br />
Claudia Woods, a guard with District Security guards a boarded up Banksy original painting after audacious thieves attempted to chop the artwork from the wall of an old abandoned store in New Orleans on the corner of North Rampart and Kerlerec street. The building will be guarded 24 hours a day for the time being.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    23feb14-Banksy Security007.JPG
  • 23 February 2014. New Orleans, Louisiana.<br />
Claudia Woods, a guard with District Security guards a boarded up Banksy original painting after audacious thieves attempted to chop the artwork from the wall of an old abandoned store in New Orleans on the corner of North Rampart and Kerlerec street. The building will be guarded 24 hours a day for the time being.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    23feb14-Banksy Security005.JPG
  • 23 February 2014. New Orleans, Louisiana.<br />
Claudia Woods, a guard with District Security guards a boarded up Banksy original painting after audacious thieves attempted to chop the artwork from the wall of an old abandoned store in New Orleans on the corner of North Rampart and Kerlerec street. The building will be guarded 24 hours a day for the time being.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    23feb14-Banksy Security013.JPG
  • 23 February 2014. New Orleans, Louisiana.<br />
Claudia Woods, a guard with District Security guards a boarded up Banksy original painting after audacious thieves attempted to chop the artwork from the wall of an old abandoned store in New Orleans on the corner of North Rampart and Kerlerec street. The building will be guarded 24 hours a day for the time being.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    23feb14-Banksy Security002.JPG
  • 24 February 2014. New Orleans, Louisiana.<br />
<br />
As reported in The Sun, London.<br />
<br />
Banksy ‘thieves’ busted cutting original grafitti art work from shop wall<br />
<br />
By JACK LOSH<br />
Last Updated: 24th February 2014<br />
<br />
A BOGUS construction crew were chased off after they were busted cutting an original Banksy from a wall.<br />
One of the gang, who called himself Chris, was caught holding a power drill half-way through extracting the work by the British street artist.<br />
<br />
Hidden by a temporary wall of plywood, he told snapper Charlie Varley that the 2008 artwork – dubbed “Umbrella Girl” – would be shipped to London for a Tate Modern retrospective of Banksy’s career.<br />
He added that it would be re-installed at its current location on the side of an abandoned store in New Orleans, US, once the exhibition had finished.<br />
<br />
But when local residents quizzed the men and ordered them to show a permit for the operation, they packed up their equipment and scarpered.<br />
A security guard was installed at the scene on Friday to make sure the suspected thieves did not return.<br />
Clay Lapeyrouse, who lives nearby, said: “They were cutting it out of the building. The story they gave me just seemed weird."<br />
<br />
Police are now hunting the suspects, aged between 25 and 35, following the incident.<br />
Banksy’s work fetches huge sums at auction, with his Kissing Coppers mural going under the hammer for £345,000 in the US last week.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    24feb14-Banksy cuts003.JPG
  • March 6th,2006. New Orleans, Louisiana. Six months after hurricane Katrina devasted the Lower 9th Ward, recovery work, slow and sometimes grim, continues at what appears to be a snail's pace. Volunteer Chaplains from Victim Relief in Texas perform a simple ceremony over the remains of a resident of the Lower 9th Ward discovered in a house. The house had previously been searched and a body removed, however it appears the initial removal process missed some of the remains which were today placed in a plastic bag and taken away by the coroners office.
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  • 26 July 2006 - New Orleans - Louisiana. Law and Order. <br />
2228 MP Company, Louisiana National Guard. Military Police patrol. 5th District. <br />
With crime beginning to pick up as people return to the city following the destruction of Hurricane Katrina, 300 Louisiana National Guardsmen returned to New Orleans to supplement local police and provide increased cover and back up in parts of the city that remain derelict and thinly populated since the devastating floods. MP's stop to question a suspicious man who turn out to be drunk. He insists on lifting his shirt to show the MP's an unhealed gunshot wound, along with what they suspect to be a gaping wound from a self removed catheter bag. The man needs serious medical attention but refuses to accept an offer of assistance and stumbles away into the night.
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  • 1 July 2006 - New Orleans - Louisiana. Earl Jackson, City Park. 58 yr old Jackson moved to New Orleans from Georgia in October 2005 in search of work. He moved to the unauthorised  migrant workers encampment at City Park, where many workers and drifters lived in tents and trailers. He slept on the outdoor couch the previous night. The camp was forcibly emptied and the residents evicted under court order just after midnight on July 1st. Jackson is the last resident, picking his way through the remnants of the camp. Life has been tough for Jackson, living in a tent in the park next to a creek with snakes, spiders, alligators and mosquitos. His tools were stolen early on, his ride towed. His health has deteriorated. He has a septic spider bite inside his thigh, small flies dine on wounds on his legs, he must shower and shave under an outdoor hose. The only possessions he has left are all kept in a shopping cart. The city removed the mobile toilets forcing Jackson to defecate in the woods. He does not know where he will go now. He will likely end up amongst the city's homeless population.
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  • 03 December 2013. Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Habitat for Humanity's Musician's Village. The houses were originally constructed using Chinese drywall. The drywall was of an inferior quality and was soon found to be toxic and corrosive and had to be removed.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley
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  • 09 February 2016. New Orleans, Louisiana.<br />
Mardi Gras Day. Controversial statue of General Robert E Lee at Lee Circle. The statue is slated to be removed. <br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    09feb16-Mardi Gras Day247.jpg
  • 23 July 2010. Queen Bess Island near Grand Isle, Louisiana. <br />
Oil containment hard boom washed ashore in the middle of bird nesting areas on Queen Bess Island near Grand Isle. The boom itself has now become the problem as it interferes with nesting brown pelicans and other birds. Minor storms and swell easily remove the boom from flimsy moorings creating yet another problem in the region. Stakes tethering boom to the bay floor are unlikely to be removed, causing yet more obstacles for shrimp fishermen to tear their nets on when shrimping is permitted to resume. The entire area appears to be relatively clean of oil. Perhaps the area is witnessing the beginning of the end of the disaster from BP's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? It will be many years before the long term effects of the spill are known and a tropical storm or hurricane could still bring large slicks of oil ashore. <br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    23july10-BP oil055.JPG
  • 23 July 2010. Queen Bess Island near Grand Isle, Louisiana. <br />
Oil containment hard boom appears to collect foaming sea water, a likely result of chemical dispersants in the waters at Queen Bess Island near Grand Isle. Minor storms and swell easily remove the boom from flimsy moorings creating yet another problem in the region. Stakes tethering boom to the bay floor are unlikely to be removed, causing yet more obstacles for shrimp fishermen to tear their nets on when shrimping is permitted to resume. The entire area appears to be relatively clean of oil. Perhaps the area is witnessing the beginning of the end of the disaster from BP's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? It will be many years before the long term effects of the spill are known and a tropical storm or hurricane could still bring large slicks of oil ashore. <br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    23july10-BP oil053.JPG
  • 23 July 2010. Cat Islands. Barataria Bay near Grand Isle, Louisiana. <br />
Oil containment hard boom washed ashore in the middle of bird nesting areas on one of the Cat islands near Grand Isle. The boom appears to be mostly clean and free from oil, but the boom itself has now become the problem as it interferes with nesting brown pelicans and other birds. Minor storms and swell easily remove the boom from flimsy moorings creating yet another problem in the region. Stakes tethering boom to the bay floor are unlikely to be removed, causing yet more obstacles for shrimp fishermen to tear their nets on when shrimping is permitted to resume. The entire area appears to be relatively clean of oil. Perhaps the area is witnessing the beginning of the end of the disaster from BP's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? It will be many years before the long term effects of the spill are known and a tropical storm or hurricane could still bring large slicks of oil ashore. <br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    23july10-BP oil034.JPG
  • 23 July 2010. Cat Islands. Barataria Bay near Grand Isle, Louisiana. <br />
Oil containment hard boom washed ashore in the middle of bird nesting areas on one of the Cat islands near Grand Isle. The boom appears to be mostly clean and free from oil, but the boom itself has now become the problem as it interferes with nesting brown pelicans and other birds. Minor storms and swell easily remove the boom from flimsy moorings creating yet another problem in the region. Stakes tethering boom to the bay floor are unlikely to be removed, causing yet more obstacles for shrimp fishermen to tear their nets on when shrimping is permitted to resume. The entire area appears to be relatively clean of oil. Perhaps the area is witnessing the beginning of the end of the disaster from BP's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? It will be many years before the long term effects of the spill are known and a tropical storm or hurricane could still bring large slicks of oil ashore. <br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    23july10-BP oil037.JPG
  • 23 July 2010. Cat Islands. Barataria Bay near Grand Isle, Louisiana. <br />
Oil containment hard boom washed ashore in the middle of bird nesting areas on one of the Cat islands near Grand Isle. The boom appears to be mostly clean and free from oil, but the boom itself has now become the problem as it interferes with nesting brown pelicans and other birds. Minor storms and swell easily remove the boom from flimsy moorings creating yet another problem in the region. Stakes tethering boom to the bay floor are unlikely to be removed, causing yet more obstacles for shrimp fishermen to tear their nets on when shrimping is permitted to resume. The entire area appears to be relatively clean of oil. Perhaps the area is witnessing the beginning of the end of the disaster from BP's massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico? It will be many years before the long term effects of the spill are known and a tropical storm or hurricane could still bring large slicks of oil ashore. <br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    23july10-BP oil031.JPG
  • 06 June 2010. Barataria Bay to Grand Isle, Jefferson/Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. <br />
Oil soaked brown pelicans on Belle Pass island near Grand Isle, home to thousands of nesting birds. The Louisiana brown pelican, a bird only recently removed from the endangered species list try in vain to clean oil from their feathers. The birds are attempting to rear their young with the threat of oil pouring into their habitat.  The ecological and economic impact of BP's oil spill is devastating to the region. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe is evading booms laid out to stop it thanks in part to the dispersants which means the oil travels at every depth of the Gulf and washes ashore wherever the current carries it. The Louisiana wetlands produce over 30% of America's seafood and are the most fertile of their kind in the world.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 06 June 2010. Barataria Bay to Grand Isle, Jefferson/Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. <br />
Oil soaked brown pelicans on Belle Pass island near Grand Isle, home to thousands of nesting birds. The Louisiana brown pelican, a bird only recently removed from the endangered species list try in vain to clean oil from their feathers. The birds are attempting to rear their young with the threat of oil pouring into their habitat.  The ecological and economic impact of BP's oil spill is devastating to the region. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe is evading booms laid out to stop it thanks in part to the dispersants which means the oil travels at every depth of the Gulf and washes ashore wherever the current carries it. The Louisiana wetlands produce over 30% of America's seafood and are the most fertile of their kind in the world.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    06june10-oil france-soir 032.JPG
  • 06 June 2010. Barataria Bay to Grand Isle, Jefferson/Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. <br />
Brown pelicans on the Cat Island chain in Barataria Bay, home to thousands of nesting birds including the Louisiana brown pelican, a bird only recently removed from the endangered species list. The birds are attempting to rear their young with the threat of oil pouring into their habitat.  The ecological and economic impact of BP's oil spill is devastating to the region. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe is evading booms laid out to stop it thanks in part to the dispersants which means the oil travels at every depth of the Gulf and washes ashore wherever the current carries it. The Louisiana wetlands produce over 30% of America's seafood and are the most fertile of their kind in the world.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    06june10-oil france-soir 011.JPG
  • 06 June 2010. Barataria Bay to Grand Isle, Jefferson/Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. <br />
Oil soaked boom is all that protects the Cat Island chain in Barataria Bay, home to thousands of nesting birds including the Louisiana brown pelican, a bird only recently removed from the endangered species list. The birds are attempting to rear their young with the threat of oil pouring into their habitat.  The ecological and economic impact of BP's oil spill is devastating to the region. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe is evading booms laid out to stop it thanks in part to the dispersants which means the oil travels at every depth of the Gulf and washes ashore wherever the current carries it. The Louisiana wetlands produce over 30% of America's seafood and are the most fertile of their kind in the world.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    06june10-oil france-soir 006.JPG
  • 31st August, 2005. New Orleans, Louisiana.<br />
'Hell on earth.' The New Orleans Arena became a makeshift hospital. Tourists stuck at the Superdome were coming under increased pressure with threats of violence and were removed from the Superdome for their own safety. They were immediately put to work assisting at the makeshift hospital.  British tourists trapped by the storm talk to reporter Ryan Parry.<br />
Photo Credit: Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 31st August, 2005. New Orleans, Louisiana.<br />
Hurricane Katrina aftermath. In a bizarre moment Samuel Thompson plays a last lament for the city at the New Orleans Arena which has become the makeshift hospital for those removed from the Superdome where an estimated 20,000 refugees remain trapped after the storm.. <br />
Photo Credit: Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    31aug05-hurricane Katrina017.JPG
  • 25 Sept, 2005.  Carlyss, Louisiana.  Hurricane Rita aftermath. <br />
 Local cajun man Josh Herman tours the swamps and bayou's checking on neighbours and their homes. He also removed perishable items from his father's convenience store to place in a freezer run by a generator nearby.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 05 Sept  2005. New Orleans, Louisiana. Post hurricane Katrina.<br />
Some of the last evacuees are removed from Napolean Ave in Uptown New Orleans aboard airboats in the ghost town that once was New Orleans.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 06 June 2010. Barataria Bay to Grand Isle, Jefferson/Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. <br />
Oil collects against and seeps under the booms protecting brown pelicans on the Cat Island chain in Barataria Bay, home to thousands of nesting birds including the Louisiana brown pelican, a bird only recently removed from the endangered species list. The birds are attempting to rear their young with the threat of oil pouring into their habitat.  The ecological and economic impact of BP's oil spill is devastating to the region. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe is evading booms laid out to stop it thanks in part to the dispersants which means the oil travels at every depth of the Gulf and washes ashore wherever the current carries it. The Louisiana wetlands produce over 30% of America's seafood and are the most fertile of their kind in the world.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    06june10-oil france-soir 047.JPG
  • 06 June 2010. Barataria Bay to Grand Isle, Jefferson/Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. <br />
Brown pelicans on the Cat Island chain in Barataria Bay, home to thousands of nesting birds including the Louisiana brown pelican, a bird only recently removed from the endangered species list. The birds are attempting to rear their young with the threat of oil pouring into their habitat.  The ecological and economic impact of BP's oil spill is devastating to the region. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe is evading booms laid out to stop it thanks in part to the dispersants which means the oil travels at every depth of the Gulf and washes ashore wherever the current carries it. The Louisiana wetlands produce over 30% of America's seafood and are the most fertile of their kind in the world.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    06june10-oil france-soir 013.JPG
  • 06 June 2010. Barataria Bay to Grand Isle, Jefferson/Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. <br />
Oil soaked boom is all that protects the Cat Island chain in Barataria Bay, home to thousands of nesting birds including the Louisiana brown pelican, a bird only recently removed from the endangered species list. The birds are attempting to rear their young with the threat of oil pouring into their habitat.  The ecological and economic impact of BP's oil spill is devastating to the region. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe is evading booms laid out to stop it thanks in part to the dispersants which means the oil travels at every depth of the Gulf and washes ashore wherever the current carries it. The Louisiana wetlands produce over 30% of America's seafood and are the most fertile of their kind in the world.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    06june10-oil france-soir 009.JPG
  • 06 June 2010. Barataria Bay to Grand Isle, Jefferson/Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. <br />
Oil soaked boom is all that protects the Cat Island chain in Barataria Bay, home to thousands of nesting birds including the Louisiana brown pelican, a bird only recently removed from the endangered species list. The birds are attempting to rear their young with the threat of oil pouring into their habitat.  The ecological and economic impact of BP's oil spill is devastating to the region. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe is evading booms laid out to stop it thanks in part to the dispersants which means the oil travels at every depth of the Gulf and washes ashore wherever the current carries it. The Louisiana wetlands produce over 30% of America's seafood and are the most fertile of their kind in the world.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    06june10-oil france-soir 007.JPG
  • 06 June 2010. Barataria Bay to Grand Isle, Jefferson/Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. <br />
Oil soaked boom is all that protects the Cat Island chain in Barataria Bay, home to thousands of nesting birds including the Louisiana brown pelican, a bird only recently removed from the endangered species list. The birds are attempting to rear their young with the threat of oil pouring into their habitat.  The ecological and economic impact of BP's oil spill is devastating to the region. Oil from the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe is evading booms laid out to stop it thanks in part to the dispersants which means the oil travels at every depth of the Gulf and washes ashore wherever the current carries it. The Louisiana wetlands produce over 30% of America's seafood and are the most fertile of their kind in the world.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    06june10-oil france-soir 003.JPG
  • 12 March 2020. Beaumerie St Martin, Pas de Calais, France.<br />
Mme Haegeman wades through floods with bags of clothes she is removing from her house as the floodwaters continue to rise inside her flooded home. Following months of record rainfalls, the Canche River near Montreuil Sur Mer burst its banks flooding local homes. The river last flooded in 2013, however residents claim they have never seen it as bad as this.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 12 March 2020. Beaumerie St Martin, Pas de Calais, France.<br />
Mme Haegeman wades through floods with bags of clothes she is removing from her house as the floodwaters continue to rise inside her flooded home. Following months of record rainfalls, the Canche River near Montreuil Sur Mer burst its banks flooding local homes. The river last flooded in 2013, however residents claim they have never seen it as bad as this.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 20 November 2015. Orpheum Theater, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Memorial service for musician Allen Toussaint. <br />
Pall bearers remove Toussaint's casket from the theater..<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 03 November, 2005. New Orleans, Louisiana. Post Katrina. <br />
Merrick Cemetery, St Bernard Parish just outside New Orleans, Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. FEMA contractors are still removing coffins from the graveyard destroyed by the storm. Merrick cemetery was one of the earliest slave cemeteries in the south and was deluged by 20ft of flood water.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 30 Sept, 2005.  New Orleans, Louisiana. Lower 9th ward. Hurricane Katrina aftermath.<br />
The remnants of the lives of ordinary folks, now covered in mud as the flood waters remain. Private Contractor Kenyon, worldwide disaster management corporation parks sterile mortician vans ready for body collection. Kenyon has won the body removal contract.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 3rd November, 2005. Merrick Cemetery, St Bernard Parish just outside New Orleans, Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. FEMA contractors are still removing coffins from the graveyard destroyed by the storm. Merrick cemetery was one of the earliest slave cemeteries in the south and was deluged by 20ft of flood water.
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  • 21 August 2010. Bay Jimmy, south Louisiana. <br />
Sub contractors, working for contractors working for BP check, replace, remove and deploy absorbent oil boom as the worst environmental disaster in US history continues to unfold in south Louisiana. Bay Jimmy received another recent coating of oil despite government and BP efforts to persuade the public otherwise. The sub contractors were ordered over the radio 'Do not talk to journalists.' The culture of fear remains whereby any contractor speaking to the media fears he may lose his job.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 21 August 2010. Bay Jimmy, south Louisiana. <br />
Sub contractors, working for contractors working for BP check, replace, remove and deploy absorbent oil boom as the worst environmental disaster in US history continues to unfold in south Louisiana. Bay Jimmy received another recent coating of oil despite government and BP efforts to persuade the public otherwise. The sub contractors were ordered over the radio 'Do not talk to journalists.' The culture of fear remains whereby any contractor speaking to the media fears he may lose his job.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 21 August 2010. Bay Jimmy, south Louisiana. <br />
Sub contractors, working for contractors working for BP check, replace, remove and deploy absorbent oil boom as the worst environmental disaster in US history continues to unfold in south Louisiana. Bay Jimmy received another recent coating of oil despite government and BP efforts to persuade the public otherwise. The sub contractors were ordered over the radio 'Do not talk to journalists.' The culture of fear remains whereby any contractor speaking to the media fears he may lose his job.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
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  • 21 August 2010. Bay Jimmy, south Louisiana. <br />
Sub contractors, working for contractors working for BP check, replace, remove and deploy absorbent oil boom as the worst environmental disaster in US history continues to unfold in south Louisiana. Bay Jimmy received another recent coating of oil despite government and BP efforts to persuade the public otherwise. The sub contractors were ordered over the radio 'Do not talk to journalists.' The culture of fear remains whereby any contractor speaking to the media fears he may lose his job.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    21aug10-BP oil014.JPG
  • 12th October, 2013. Wisner Beach, Port Fourchon, Louisiana.<br />
Following recent storms in the Gulf of Mexico, vast oil mats from the BP Deepwater Horizon Macondo Well oil spill disaster continue to wash ashore in abundance. 3 1/2 years since the worst oil spill in history and on the eve of a potentially historic penalty phase of the trail with fines potentially as high as $18 billion levied against British Petroleum by the Federal Government. The oil mats lie just below the surface of the water and require specialized removal techniques. It is clear that BP's problems will not go away any time soon.
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  • 21 April 2011. London, England..An anti war protest billboard on Parliament Square outside the Houses of Parliament, part of the Royal wedding route the procession will pass en route to Buckingham Palace in the run up to Catherine Middleton's marriage to Prince William. The police have threatened to remove protestors from Parliament Square before the big day..Photo; Charlie Varley.
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  • 21 April 2011. London, England..A Guantanamo Bay protester stands outside  the Houses of Parliament, part of the Royal wedding route the procession will pass en route to Buckingham Palace in the run up to Catherine Middleton's marriage to Prince William. The police have threatened to remove protestors from Parliament Square before the big day..Photo; Charlie Varley.
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  • 12 March 2020. Beaumerie St Martin, Pas de Calais, France.<br />
Mme Haegeman wades through floods with bags of clothes she is removing from her house as the floodwaters continue to rise inside her flooded home. Following months of record rainfalls, the Canche River near Montreuil Sur Mer burst its banks flooding local homes. The river last flooded in 2013, however residents claim they have never seen it as bad as this.<br />
Photo©; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    12mar20-France floods031.jpg
  • 20 November 2015. Orpheum Theater, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Memorial service for musician Allen Toussaint. <br />
Pall bearers remove Toussaint's casket from the theater..<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    20nov15-Toussaint funeral091.JPG
  • 20 November 2015. Orpheum Theater, New Orleans, Louisiana. <br />
Memorial service for musician Allen Toussaint. <br />
Pall bearers remove Toussaint's casket from the theater.<br />
Photo; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    20nov15-Toussaint funeral093.JPG
  • 03 November, 2005. New Orleans, Louisiana. Post Katrina.<br />
 Merrick Cemetery, St Bernard Parish just outside New Orleans, Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. FEMA contractors are still removing coffins from the graveyard destroyed by the storm. Merrick cemetery was one of the earliest slave cemeteries in the south and was deluged by 20ft of flood water.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    03nov05-St Bernard postK043.JPG
  • 03 November, 2005. New Orleans, Louisiana. Post Katrina.<br />
 Merrick Cemetery, St Bernard Parish just outside New Orleans, Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. FEMA contractors are still removing coffins from the graveyard destroyed by the storm. Merrick cemetery was one of the earliest slave cemeteries in the south and was deluged by 20ft of flood water. Just beyond the smashed cemetery a cruise ship is moored alongside the Mississippi River, housing hundreds of recovery workers.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    03nov05-St Bernard postK042.JPG
  • 30 Sept, 2005.  New Orleans, Louisiana. Lower 9th ward. Hurricane Katrina aftermath.<br />
The remnants of the lives of ordinary folks, now covered in mud as the flood waters remain. Private Contractor Kenyon, worldwide disaster management corporation parks sterile mortician vans ready for body collection. Kenyon has won the body removal contract.<br />
Photo; ©Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    30sept05-post katrina029.JPG
  • 21 August 2010. Bay Jimmy, south Louisiana. <br />
Sub contractors, working for contractors working for BP check, replace, remove and deploy absorbent oil boom as the worst environmental disaster in US history continues to unfold in south Louisiana. Bay Jimmy received another recent coating of oil despite government and BP efforts to persuade the public otherwise. The sub contractors were ordered over the radio 'Do not talk to journalists.' The culture of fear remains whereby any contractor speaking to the media fears he may lose his job.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    21aug10-BP oil053.JPG
  • 21 August 2010. Bay Jimmy, south Louisiana. <br />
Sub contractors, working for contractors working for BP check, replace, remove and deploy absorbent oil boom as the worst environmental disaster in US history continues to unfold in south Louisiana. Bay Jimmy received another recent coating of oil despite government and BP efforts to persuade the public otherwise. The sub contractors were ordered over the radio 'Do not talk to journalists.' The culture of fear remains whereby any contractor speaking to the media fears he may lose his job.<br />
Photo credit; Charlie Varley/varleypix.com
    21aug10-BP oil020.JPG
  • 12th October, 2013. Wisner Beach, Port Fourchon, Louisiana.<br />
Following recent storms in the Gulf of Mexico, vast oil mats from the BP Deepwater Horizon Macondo Well oil spill disaster continue to wash ashore in abundance. 3 1/2 years since the worst oil spill in history and on the eve of a potentially historic penalty phase of the trail with fines potentially as high as $18 billion levied against British Petroleum by the Federal Government. The oil mats lie just below the surface of the water and require specialized removal techniques. It is clear that BP's problems will not go away any time soon.
    12oct13-BP Spills019.JPG
  • 21 April 2011. London, England..A Guantanamo Bay protester stands outside  the Houses of Parliament, part of the Royal wedding route the procession will pass en route to Buckingham Palace in the run up to Catherine Middleton's marriage to Prince William. The police have threatened to remove protestors from Parliament Square before the big day..Photo; Charlie Varley.
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  • 21 April 2011. London, England..A Guantanamo Bay protester stands outside  the Houses of Parliament, part of the Royal wedding route the procession will pass en route to Buckingham Palace in the run up to Catherine Middleton's marriage to Prince William. The police have threatened to remove protestors from Parliament Square before the big day..Photo; Charlie Varley.
    21apr11-london071.JPG
  • 21 April 2011. London, England..A Guantanamo Bay protester stands outside  the Houses of Parliament, part of the Royal wedding route the procession will pass en route to Buckingham Palace in the run up to Catherine Middleton's marriage to Prince William. The police have threatened to remove protestors from Parliament Square before the big day..Photo; Charlie Varley.
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  • 21 April 2011. London, England..A Guantanamo Bay protester stands outside Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament, part of the Royal wedding route the procession will pass en route to Buckingham Palace in the run up to Catherine Middleton's marriage to Prince William. The police have threatened to remove protestors from Parliament Square before the big day..Photo; Charlie Varley.
    21apr11-london068.JPG