Collect + Support
In 2013 PhotoNOLA established the Collectors Club series as a fundraising initiative with a mission to encourage collecting. Through this program we offer the public an opportunity to collect works by great contemporary photographers at an accessible price point. All proceeds support the programming initiatives of PhotoNOLA, a volunteer-run photography festival.
Each year we partner with a photographer to create a limited edition print. The editions of 100 (plus five artist proofs) are beautifully crafted archival pigment prints on 10×12” hot press, 100% cotton rag paper. Each print is signed and numbered by the artist.
Ben Depp is an artist and National Geographic Explorer based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Much of Ben’s work has centered around environmental issues and his environmental photography has been funded by the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting, the Ford Foundation, and the National Geographic Society.
In 2014, Depp began making aerial images by powered paraglider, which allows for hours of exploration, a low flight path and the time-intensive search for surprising compositions. He learned to pilot a powered paraglider for his ongoing work documenting wetland loss and coastal erosion in Louisiana and the Gulf Coast. This work has been shown at A Gallery for Fine Photography, Claire Elizabeth Gallery, Ann Connelly Fine Art, the Louisiana State Museum, and twice at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. The project was a 2017 Communication Arts Annual winner, and was published by Smithsonian Magazine, the Sierra Club, Audubon, Scientific American, Photography Forum and National Geographic.
Depp completed an artist-in-residence at Court 13 Arts, where he built a wood sailboat to replace the worn antique wood boat he used to access remote parts of South Louisiana which are too remote to fly to.
Exhibition List
- Tide Lines, New Orleans Photo Alliance, solo exhibition, 2023
- Ben Depp, Walter Anderson Museum, solo exhibition, 2023
- Ben Depp and Mia Kaplan, Ann Connelly Gallery, group exhibition, 2023
- Knowing Who We Are, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, group exhibition, 2023
- Tide Lines, Claire Elizabeth Gallery, solo exhibition, 2023
- Louisiana Contemporary, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, group exhibition, 2022
- Imaginal Stage, A Gallery for Fine Photography, solo exhibition, 2022
- Tide Lines, Southeast Center for Photography, solo exhibition, 2021
- Louisiana Contemporary, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, group exhibition, 2019
- Louisiana from Above, Louisiana State Museum, solo show, 2019
- Tide Lines, A Gallery for Fine Photography, solo show, 2018
- Currents, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, group exhibition, 2017
- Bayou’s End, A Gallery for Fine Photography, solo show, 2017
- Canadian Museum for Human Rights, group exhibition, 2013
- NIU Anthropology Museum, group exhibition, 2013
- BD Photography Award, Look 3 Festival of the Photograph, group exhibition, 2011
Collections
- Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans
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