"Coming Back: New Orleans Resurgent"
"This is the moment when I realized New Orleans was coming back," Tama said of this image called "Girl in a Blue Dress." "It was nine months after the storm, and I was searching for signs of resurgence. I heard about a second line parade, which is a local tradition. And I went to the formerly flooded street. It looked like it was almost abandoned. But all of a sudden in the distance I heard this beat and this rhythm and all of a sudden this band came pounding down the street. People were dancing and singing and joyous and flying through the air. It was a ballet, a moving street party. It swept me up almost off my feet and I just flowed along with them and was photographing them. I knew the spirit of New Orleans was going to overcome."
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