Typhoon Haiyan was one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded. Relief efforts were slow following the typhoon and Tacloban, was devastated. All that remained was a mess of debris, its buildings reduced to rubble, 4,000 people in the city died.

The cost of rebuilding was estimated around $5.8bn. A year on, thousands of people were living in temporary shelters and four million people were still displaced

Five years on, life is beginning to return to normal

Rizal street

Tacloban airport

Women with religious statues walk by the roadside in Tolosa on the eastern Philippine island of Leyte (2013 photograph by Philippe Lopez).

The junction of Burgos and Real streets

A roadside shelter

Anibong district

Justice Romualdez Street

Sagkahan district

The Tacloban City convention centre, also known as the Astrodome

A Chinese temple in Tacloban City

Tacloban City