Read field notes from Tyrone Turner's assignment shooting the August 2007 National Geographic magazine feature article, "New Orleans: A Perilous Future."
National Geographic magazine, August 2007 By Joel K. Bourne, Jr., Photographs by Tyrone Turner
The sinking city faces rising seas and stronger hurricanes, protected only by dwindling wetlands and flawed levees. Yet people are trickling back to the place they call home, rebuilding in harm's way.