Brenda Ann Kenneally doesn’t cover events. Instead, she burrows in and follows her subjects over the course of many years in projects such as “Upstate Girls” and “Money Power and Respect.”

“I’m not into big events because I want to know what happened the decade before and the decade after,” she said.

When she photographed young victims of Hurricane Katrina — “Children of the Storm” — for The New York Times Magazine, Ms. Kenneally assumed she would return. After revisiting twice on her own, she went back this month at the request of Michele McNally, The New York Times’s director of photography, to create a multimedia account of what has happened to two of the families in the intervening years.

The result, “Children of The Storm Revisited,” produced by Lisa Iaboni and Beth Flynn, is a beautifully photographed, intimate view of families surviving against adversity. Using still photographs and video and audio clips, Ms. Kenneally focuses on the Ruberts family of Covington, La., shown in the slide show, and the Reis family of Waveland, Miss.

“When I first met the Rubertses and the Reises, they seemed like very solid families, not victims at all,” Ms. Kenneally said. “There was a lot of love there. That extended to me.”

When she returned this year, Ms. Kenneally found the families back on their feet, helped and sustained by their communities and their churches.

“Both of these families never expected any help,” she said. “They knew how to endure. They were used to enduring.”