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Eric Johnson, 23, a reporter for Pioneer Press/Sun-Times News Group, at work painting the trim of a house rebuilt after Hurricane Katrina by Preservation Resource Center and Americorps, while on assignment in the Hollygrove section of New Orleans, Louisiana on March 11, 2008. Johnson traveled to New Orleans to report with a group of "voluntourists" from Glencoe, Illinois who combine traditional tourism with volunteer work in the aftermath of the devastation wrought by Hurrica Katrina in 2005.
© Amanda Rivkin / Sun-Times News Group