“We, Women”, Produced and Presented by Photoville, Women Photograph, and PhotoNOLA
We, Women Produced and presented by Photoville, Women Photograph and PhotoNOLA Various Artists Now-January 31, 2022 In the aftermath of the 2016 U.S. presidential elections, We, Women was founded to amplify women and gender nonconforming voices during an era of divisiveness and distrust in politics. Through a radical transformation of image-making—with the goal of […]
“Exit Stage Right” – Zack Smith’s Festival Portraits
“Exit Stage Right”- Zack Smith’s Festival Portraits Zach Smith December 3 – May 5, 2022 Opening: Friday, December 3, 5:30-7 pm “Exit Stage Right” – Zack Smith‘s Festival Portraits This exhibit features prints, collages, and wallpaper montages from the backstage portraits series by New Orleans photographer Zack Smith. The images were all shot from […]
2021 Opening Reception at The Broadside
Purchase Tickets The Broadside 600 N Broad St, New Orleans, LA 70119 Wednesday, December 8, doors at 6 pm, music at 7:30-10 pm Featuring music by jazz favorites Naked On The Floor A portion of the proceeds will benefit ongoing Hurricane Ida relief through our partnership with Another Gulf Is Possible Come celebrate the 16th […]
2021 Virtual PhotoBOOK Fair
Virtual Book Fair Wednesday December 8, 2021 Virtual The New Orleans Photo Alliance and the 16th annual PhotoNOLA Festival are pleased to announce the 2021 VIRTUAL PhotoBOOK Fair Wednesday December 8, begining at 10:00 am CST. You can watch the event live on this page, or visit the PhotoNOLA Facebook or Vimeo. We will not […]
A Brief History of Photography and Transmission
A Brief History of Photography and Transmission A collaboration of artist June 25 – March 20, 2022 While it may seem that the story of photography traces an inevitable arc from a unique material experience toward an infinitely reproducible phenomenon, it could be argued that one of the most important “histories” of photography is […]
A Celebration of the Human Body
A Celebration of the Human Body Christopher Ryan, Yves Elizalde, Andy Pham, Ohm Phanphiroj December 8-December 12, 2021 Opening: Saturday, December 11, 6:00-10:00pm This group exhibition features an interesting mix of local, national, and international photographers. The unifying theme is the human body, which is demonstrated throughout these works as not only the physical […]
AFRICA
AFRICA Fred Husserl November 15, 2021 – January 31, 2022 Opening: Thursday, Dec 2, 2021 AFRICA is a series of photographs taken in 2017 in Kenya (Masai Mara), Zambia (Victoria Falls) and S. Africa (Kruger National Reserve). Choosing the images to exhibit was difficult as I wanted to convey the immensity of the plains, […]
Akasha Rabut
Southern Riderz Akasha Rabut December 4 – November 20, 2021 Opening: Saturday, Dec 4, 5:00 pm Akasha Rabut’s series Southern Riderz captures the vibrant lives of a group of urban cowboys in New Orleans called The Game Changers. The Game Changers emerged from a tradition of black cowboys in the South and particularly in […]
Antheia
Antheia Leona Strassberg Steiner, Muffin Bernstein, Natasha Sanchez December 11th – January 1, 2022 Opening: Saturday, Dec 11, 6:00 pm-9:00 pm Antheia is a group show featuring works by Leona Strassberg Steiner, Muffin Bernstein, and Natasha Sanchez. Antheia was the Greek goddess of vegetation gardens, blossoms, especially worshipped in spring and near lowlands and marshlands, […]
ANTIGRAVITY Presents: Yours Truly
ANTIGRAVITY Presents: Yours Truly Suis Generis December 11 – January 1, 2021 Opening: Saturday, Dec 11, 6:00 pm -9:00 pm Though our medium of choice is black and white newsprint, ANTIGRAVITY has published some of New Orleans’ best photographic talent for over a decade. Yours Truly, our seventh showcase in conjunction with PhotoNOLA, features select […]
As We Heal
As We Heal Curator: Leona Strassberg Steiner December 11 – January 29, 2022 Opening: Saturday, Dec 11, 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm Here in New Orleans creativity is our solace. Making art — visual, musical, individual and collective—- attunes us , helps us come together in every sense. Our work cures what is broken […]
Avalasse | Southern Dreamscape, Sunrise vs Sunset
Avalasse | Southern Dreamscape, Sunrise vs Sunset Brandt Vicknair | Bruce Q. Williams November 30, 2021 – January 15, 2022 Opening: Thursday, Dec 9, 5-8 pm 2 Solo Exhibitions: Brandt Vicknair | Avalasse An effort to find tragicomedy, representing a state that is generally at odds with itself and looking for balance. Bruce Q. Williams […]
Closing Reception: Lamara: Open-Air Digital Exhibition + Live Music
Closing Reception: Lamara: Open-Air Digital Exhibition + Live Music Closing Reception Sunday December 12, 2021, 5:30pm-10:00pm PN21 is proud to bring creative and inspiring local businesses together to offer socially distant and safe spaces to enjoy Open-Air Digital Exhibitions throughout the city. Come celebrate the 16th annual PhotoNOLA 2020 Closing Reception at the Lamara […]
CLOSING RECEPTION: LAMARA: OPEN-AIR DIGITAL EXHIBITION + Live Music
Sunday December 12th, 2021 Closing Reception: 6-9 pm Featuring LIVE music from Sasha Masakowski PN21 is proud to bring creative and inspiring local businesses together to offer socially distant and safe spaces to enjoy Open-Air Digital Exhibitions throughout the city. Come celebrate the 16th annual PhotoNOLA 2021 Closing Reception at the Lamara Cafe. This […]
Collective Works of Christopher Ryan
Collective Works of Christopher Ryan Christopher Ryan December 11 & 12 Artists Talk & Reception: Sunday, December 12, 11:00am – 12:00pm Christopher Ryan is an American photographer who briefly studied photography at San Diego City College and quickly departed for a five year world tour shooting his favorite subjects: abandoned and decaying structures, children […]
CURRENTS 2021 and PhotoWALK
CURRENTS 2021 and PhotoWALK Festival Event December 10, 2021, 6:00pm-9:00pm CURRENTS is an annual exhibition that highlights the diverse photographic work being created by New Orleans Photo Alliance members. It is a showcase exhibition designed to give an overview of contemporary photographic practices and projects. The exhibit will open in December at the Ogden […]
CURRENTS 2021: NOPA Members Showcase
CURRENTS 2021: NOPA Members Showcase December 10, 2021-February 6, 2022 Opening: Friday, December 10, 2021, 6-9 pm It was a pleasure and an unexpected challenge to look through so many stand-out examples of photography being made today. A pleasure in that I love looking at work; a challenge in that I had to choose […]
Dawoud Bey presents, “On History and Memory” for the Jules L. Cahn’s Annual John Lawrence Photography Lecture at PhotoNOLA
Sold Out Presented by: Dawoud Bey and Brian Piper Filmmaker: Bron Moyi (not present) December 11, 2021 Lecture: 2:00 pm Reception at THNOC: 3:30-5:00 pm Admission: Free Beginning with The Birmingham Project photographs and the video work 9.15.63 (2012), which pay homage to the six young African Americans killed on September 15, 1963, in […]
Finding Home
Finding Home Emily Williams December 10-31, 2021 Emily Williams: Finding Home searches for the evidence of humanity—an unmade bed, an open window, a dilapidated house —to find out who was or will be there. The series explores places that mean something to whoever may have inhabited them but appear vacant at the moment […]
George Dureau: Photographs
George Dureau: Photographs George Dureau October 23, 2021-January 23, 2022 Opening: October 23, 2021 George Dureau: Photographs New Orleans artist George Dureau photographed a diversity of people in postures that speak to his keen eye, as well as the trust he developed with his models — many of whom were Black, and/or had amputations, […]
Great-ish Hits
Great-ish Hits Rick Olivier Now-March 13, 2022 On September 17, 2020, the New Orleans Jazz Museum celebrated the debut of an exhibit of Rick Olivier’s music photographs entitled Great-ish Hits. The exhibition features iconic photographs of local legends including, Aaron and Art Neville, Champion Jack Depree, Irma Thomas, and many others, plus a selection […]
GYGO (Get Your Gear Out)
GYGO (Get Your Gear Out) Travis Burke and Vincent Simmons December 10 – January 19, 2022 Opening: Friday, December 10, 7:00 pm -9:00 pm This exhibition captures landscape, events, and people that define the unique beauty of New Orleans. GYGO stands for “Get Your Gear Out”, as photographers, Burke and Simmons, find inspiration each […]
HARD LIVING IN THE BIG EASY: Immigrants & Photography of Post-Katrina Protests 2010 – 2019
HARD LIVING IN THE BIG EASY: Immigrants & Photography of Post-Katrina Protests 2010 – 2019 José Torres-Tama December 6, 2021 – January 30, 2022 Opening: Saturday, Dec 11, 4:00 pm-8:00 pm Artist talk at 7:00 pm Ode to the Immigrant Workers, a spoken word performance at 7:30 pm Proof of full COVID-19 vaccination required. No […]
Healing Images
Healing Images John Novak November 22, 2021-January 13, 2022 On View: November 22, 2021 Virtual Opening: December 9, 2021, 6:30 pm – 7:30 pm I have always found animals of all sorts fascinating, not only because of their diversity and complexity, but also due to their astounding range of behaviors. Having lived closely with […]
Home Sketch
Home Sketch Daniela Leal December 11, 2021-January 2, 2022 Opening: Saturday, December 11, 2022, 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm In her first solo exhibition in New Orleans, Daniela Leal meditates on home, and the ever-evolving relationship we have to it. Born into many of them as a second-generation with parents from Cuba and Argentina, […]
Imaginal Stage
Imaginal Stage Ben Depp Exhibition dates: December 4, 2021 – March 4, 2022 Opening: December 11, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm “Ever the river has risen and brought us the flood, the mayfly floating on the water. On the face of the sun its countenance gazes, then all of a sudden nothing is there!” […]
In This Here Place [and] Evergreen
In This Here Place [and] Evergreen Dawoud Bey October 23, 2021-January 23, 2022 Opening: October 23, 2021 Acclaimed photographer Dawoud Bey’s images poetically capture resonances of the Black American past in the present. For Prospect.5, Bey presents In This Here Place, a series of photographs of now unpopulated landscapes that were the site of […]
Ishimoto Yasuhiro: Centennial Selections
Ishimoto Yasuhiro: Centennial Selections Ishimoto Yasuhiro July 26, 2021 – February 6, 2022 To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ishimoto Yasuhiro (Japanese, born United States, 1921–2012), NOMA presents a selection of works from its collection that reveals the artist’s capacity for capturing humanity with both empathy and detachment, as well as […]
King Tides
King Tides Michel Varisco December 4, 2021-January 22, 2022 King Tides, a photographic installation by Michel Varisco in the library of M.S. Rau, imagines a future where sea level rise has overtaken the land. King tides are the highest tides experienced in coastal cities; they occur when the earth, moon, and sun are all […]
Looks Like We Made It
Looks Like We Made It Frank Relle December 1, 2021 – January 15, 2022 An exhibition of Frank Relle’s ongoing night exploration of the built and natural environment of Louisiana. Frank Relle is a photographer born and based in New Orleans, Louisiana. He graduated from Tulane University with degrees in Cognitive Science and Philosophy. […]
Morning Mindfulness Gathering (Mindfulness Meditation + Expressive Photography Practice)
RSVP & Donate Here Morning Mindfulness Gathering (Mindfulness Meditation + Expressive Photography Practice) Julie Fischer McCarter December 9 & 10, 8:00-8:30 am In conjunction with the PhotoNOLA Portfolio Reviews, we are offering a guided morning practice that will leave you feeling nourished and ready for the day ahead. Julie will lead participants in a […]
Music Was The Room She Lived In
Music Was The Room She Lived In Josephine Sacabo September 30 – January 7, 2022 Music Was The Room She Lived In The Studio Music was the room she lived in Light slept in its afternoon windows or grew dizzy, rolling down the storm’s height. Outside, in the traffic of other people’s needs. she […]
My Afghanistan with George Nobechi and ZALMAÏ
Sign Up At Nobechi Creative My Afghanistan George Nobechi and ZALMAÏ Free virtual talk Saturday, December 11, 2021 7:00 pm-8:30 pm My Afghanistan 2021 has been a tragic year for Afghanistan, but it is also easy to forget that war and tragedy have ravaged and torn apart this country for over forty years. Join award-winning, […]
Paper & Glue (2021) Screening
Paper & Glue (2021) A documentary about famed French photographer JR December 3 – 16, 2021, daily screenings at 7 pm Admission: $10 General, $9 for Students and Seniors SAM WANG’S CENTRIPETAL PERSISTENCE, a 25 minute film by John Rash, and UNDERAGE, a 7 minute film by Ohm Phanphiroj, will screen for free December 8 […]
Paper Machine Open House
Paper Machine Open House Antenna Works and Paper Machine Opening: Saturday, December 11, 2021, 12:00pm-5:00pm An open house at Paper Machine, featuring book, paper and print-based artists from Antenna and Paper Machine. Image: L. Kasimu Harris – The Lobby of the Paper Machine
Polaroid Transfer Workshop With Eddie Lanieri
Register Here Polaroid Transfer Workshop With Eddie Lanieri Eddie Lanieri Workshop December 10, 2021, 10:30am-4:30pm About this workshop: The 2021 PhotoNOLA in-person workshop offerings are possible thanks to Bostick & Sullivan, a small business with 40 years of experience specializing in chemicals and knowledge for alternative and historic photographic processes. This non-darkroom workshop focuses […]
Portfolio Reviews
Portfolio Reviews December 9-December 10, 2021 Where: International House Hotel, 221 Camp Street New Orleans, Louisiana 70130 With your safety in mind, every participant must present proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 or a negative test result less than 72 hour old. PhotoNOLA and International House Hotel will be following all public health protocol set […]
Proffer
Proffer Brian McCormick November 6 – December 24, 2021 Opening: Thursday, December 4, 6-8 pm Inspired by an accident, Brian McCormick has focused his camera on hands. His inaugural exhibit at LeMieux, Proffer, turns his lens to collected proxy appendages that he’s collected over the years. Image: Brian McCormick – Proffer | Digital […]
Prospect.5: Yesterday We Said Tomorrow
Prospect.5: Yesterday We Said Tomorrow Various Artists Now-January 23, 2022 This Fall, museums, cultural spaces, and public sites throughout New Orleans will host the long-awaited return of Prospect New Orleans Triennial exhibition with Prospect.5: “Yesterday we said tomorrow.” The CAC’s first and second-floor galleries will feature exciting works by 17 leading contemporary artists from […]
Q 2021=2121 SERIES / Blue Rhapsody
Q 2021=2121 SERIES / Blue Rhapsody David Gamble / Robert A. Schaefer, Jr. December 4, 2021 – January 22, 2022 Openings: December 4 & 11, 5-8 pm Artist talks: December 10, 6-7 pm David Gamble and Robert A. Schaefer, Jr. “Q” 2021=2121 SERIES – Multimedia pictures representing the environment we live in now. Blue […]
RAQIA: The Space Between
RAQIA: The Space Between Harlin Miller Now – January 15, 2022 RAQIA is a Hebrew word that can be defined as a wide continuous surface, or expanse, an uninterrupted space or area. This is an interactive exhibition that includes works from New Orleans artist, Harlin Miller. Image: Harlin Miller – White Linen
Sam Wang: Persistent Discoveries
Sam Wang: Persistent Discoveries Sam Wang December 8 – December 29, 2021 Opening: Saturday, December, 11, 5:00 pm -9:00 pm SAM WANG’S CENTRIPETAL PERSISTENCE, a 25 minute film by John Rash, and UNDERAGE, a 7 minute film by Ohm Phanphiroj, will screen for free December 8 through 12 @ 5:00 & 6:00 pm Sam […]
See You At Home
See You at Home Vikesh Kapoor December 9, 2021-January 29, 2022 Opening: Thursday, December 9, 6:00 pm -9:00 pm Vikesh Kapoor See You at Home is a personal narrative that centers on family, memory and the myth and melancholy surrounding the American Dream. My parents, Shailendra and Sarla Kapoor, immigrated from India in 1971, […]
Selects – A Collection of Photography by Gallery Artists
Selects – A Collection of Photography by Gallery Artists Various artists December 1-31 Claire Elizabeth Gallery represents emerging and mid-career Southern artists providing a variety of original works of contemporary art to enhance private and public collections. Image:Marcy Palmer – That Luscious Day, 2019
Selling Your Art Offline (INNER & OUTER GAME) with Martha Zlatar
Sign Up At Nobechi Creative Selling Your Art Offline (INNER & OUTER GAME) Martha Zlatar Online Workshop with Nobechi Creative Sunday, December 12, 2021 11:00 am-1:00 pm Selling Your Art Offline Is it difficult for you to sell your art? Do you think that being a good salesperson requires you to be pushy or manipulative? […]
Shallows
Shallows Thomasine Bartlett, Abe Geasland, J Knoblach, Norah Lovell, Virginia Walcott December 11, 2021 – January 2, 2022 Opening: Saturday, Dec 11, 7:00 pm -9:00 pm In conjunction with PhotoNOLA Festival, Staple Goods presents a group exhibition, Shallows, that showcases lens-based and lens-inspired works by five of its collective members. Like shallow waters, the […]
Shalom Y’all: A Snapshot of Southern Jewish Life
Shalom Y’all: A Snapshot of Southern Jewish Life Bill Aron Until-April 24, 2022 Over thirty years ago, the original Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience in Utica, Mississippi, launched an ambitious initiative with project director Vicki Reikes Fox and photographer Bill Aron to capture images of rural and urban Southern Jewish communities. One trip […]
Solastalgia
Solastalgia Michel Varisco December 11-January 2, 2022 Opening: Saturday, Dec 11, 4-9 pm Artist Talk: Sunday, Dec 12, 1 pm In this solo exhibition, entitled “Solastalgia,” Michel Varisco explores stages of grief with Jennifer Sargent and Cynthia Scott through the underwater lens of natural springs and rivers. To study springs is like listening literally […]
Spell, Time, Practice, American, Body
Spell, Time, Practice, American, Body RaMell Ross October 23, 2021-March 27, 2022 Ross will be giving a guided gallery talk during the CURRENTS 2021 Opening and PhotoWALK on Friday, December 10, 6 pm on the Ogden’s 4th floor. In 2018, photographer, filmmaker, and educator RaMell Ross released the documentary film Hale County This Morning, […]
Structure Out Of Chaos
Structure Out Of Chaos December 11 – December 30, 2021 Closing Reception: Tuesday, Dec 28, 6-8:30 pm Virtual Artist Talk: Tuesday, Dec 21, 6:30 pm CST (click here for detail) The Building 1427 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd New Orleans, Louisiana 70113 Open 12 – 6 pm, by appointment only after Dec. 17 Mary Lou Uttermohlen […]
Sugar
Sugar Various Artist December 11, 2021-February 6, 2022 On View: Saturday, December 11, 2021, 6:00 pm -10:00 pm Virtual Opening Yesterday, sugar’s cultivation as an anthropogenic crop spurred the production of plantation-based economies, eschewing pre-existing biodiversity, violently disregarding Indigenous sovereignty, and torturing the enslaved African descended body. Today, the commodity continues to line the […]
Thanks for Coming Out
Thanks for Coming Out Britt Burchfield December 5 -December 12, 2021 Jockstrap & Fetishwear Opening: December 4, 9 – 11 pm Festival Opening: December 8, 6 – 9 pm Thanks for Coming Out is a retrospective featuring the photographic work of Britt Burchfield. Britt is a Mississippi Delta Native and has called New Orleans […]
The Documenter and The Documented with George Nobechi, Timothy Duffy, and Freeman Vines
Sign Up At Nobechi Creative The Documenter and The Documented: An Inside Look at The Remarkable Story Behind “Hanging Tree Guitars” George Nobechi, Timothy Duffy, Freeman Vines Virtual Workshop Thursday, December 9, 2021 4:30 pm-5:45 pm The Documenter and The Documented To meet Freeman Vines is to meet America itself. An artist, a luthier and […]
The Perpetual Threat of Loss
The Perpetual Threat of Loss Christy Lorio December 1-31, 2021 Opening: Saturday, Dec 4, 6-9 pm The Perpetual Threat of Loss, a photographic exhibit by Christy Lorio, addresses the photographer’s stage IV colorectal cancer diagnosis in relation to the Louisiana swamps she grew up in. Christy considers her hair loss due to chemotherapy as […]
The Spillway
The Spillway Lily Brooks December 11-January 2, 2022 Opening: Saturday, December 11, 6:00 pm-10:00 pm Since 2016, Lily Brooks has been working within the local landscape of the Bonnet Carre Spillway, visualizing the space as emblematic of global sites of extraction and environmental fragility. The 12-square miles of public land and 7000-foot flood control […]
Tintype Workshop With Meg Turner
Register Here Tintype Workshop With Meg Turner Meg Turner Workshop December 11, 2021 10:30am-4:30pm About this workshop: The 2021 PhotoNOLA in-person workshop offerings are possible thanks to Bostick & Sullivan, a small business with 40 years of experience specializing in chemicals and knowledge for alternative and historic photographic processes. Discover the magic of creating […]
UNTAMED / Where the Roots Rise | The Hidden South
UNTAMED / Where the Roots Rise | The Hidden South Jaime Johnson Aelavanthara | Brent Walker December 11-29, 2021 Opening: Saturday, Dec 11, 6-9 pm The Hidden South, a photographic series by Brent Walker, is an ongoing project that focuses on telling the stories of often overlooked people on the fringes of Southern […]
Wherever You Go with music by Rhys Everspaugh and Friends
Wherever You Go featuring live music by Rhys Everspaugh and Friends John Bishop, Nicole Marie Pyke, and Campbell Nash Opening: Saturday December 11, 2021, 6:00-8:00 pm Exhibition Dates: December 1-January 15, 2022 John Bishop Athens, Georgia: Multiple exposures on 35mm film This series of multiple exposures explores the potential for visual serendipity among otherwise disconnected […]
