PhotoNOLA PhotoBOOK Fair 2024
Saturday Dec 14, 2024 | Ogden Museum of Southern Art | Book Fair free and open to the public, Ogden Admission included with Festival Pass
The PhotoBOOK Fair returns to the historic Patrick F. Taylor Library at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. This event offers you the chance to peruse a beautiful array of contemporary photobooks & zines, and engage with the artists and publishers who created them.
Join us for book signings and the chance to meet with artists and publishers.
Current list of participating publishers and artists:
Photobook Fair Programming / FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
December 14, 2024
The Patrick F. Taylor Library at Ogden Museum of Southern Art
11:00am – 11:50am
Michael P Smith Grant Award Winners: Presentations by photographers Camille Farrah Lenain, Beth Lilly, and Cedric Dent
Each photographer will discuss their winning series with an accompanying slideshow projection. The Michael P. Smith Fund for Documentary Photography was established to honor the life and work of Michael P. Smith, one of New Orleans’ most legendary and beloved documentary photographers. The fund awards cash prizes and exhibition opportunities to Gulf Coast photographers whose work demonstrates both artistic excellence and a sustained commitment to a cultural documentary project. The 2024 award was juried by the award-winning photographer, filmmaker, and writer RaMell Ross.
12:00pm – 12:45pm
What We Talk About When We Talk About Publishing: Lecture and Q&A by Michelle Dunn Marsh (Founder, Minor Matters Books)
Michelle Dunn Marsh was employed in the publishing industry for two decades before conceiving and launching Minor Matters a dozen years ago. This lecture and conversation around making, selling, owning, and earning a living (or not) from visual books will be informed by her love of books as a vehicle for words and pictures, her passion for books as a technology, and her professional expertise in the centuries-old business of publishing, which has been deeply affected by the culture and communications of the 21st century. She’ll touch briefly on what “was,” rapid shifts in the last fifteen years, and what is gained and lost through some of the many channels available for making books today. Bring your joys and concerns, noting her answers may lead you to consider new questions.
2:00pm – 2:45pm
ASK A CURATOR: Q&A with Gregory Harris and C. Rose Smith
Have a question for a photography curator? Join us for a Q&A with Gregory Harris (Keough Family Curator of Photography, High Museum of Art) and C. Rose Smith (Assistant Photography Curator, Memphis Brooks Museum of Art). They will answer common questions from artists, such as: What is the process for photography acquisitions? How should an artist approach a museum about donating or selling work? When selecting work for exhibitions, how do you balance emerging and established photographers? What is your advice to artists who would love to have their work seen by a curator? What are common trends you are seeing in the world of curating and in exhibitions?
3:30pm – 5pm
SEEING BLACK: Panel discussion with authors Eric Waters and Shana M. griffin, and artists Ashley Lorraine, Christine “Cfreedom” Brown, and Tod Smith
Situating historical inquiry alongside contemporary practices of Black image-making in New Orleans, SEEING BLACK: Black Photography in New Orleans 1840 and Beyond engages the photographic grammars, textures, multiplicities, and visual sounds of Black life in and outside the city. Published by the University of New Orleans Press, SEEING BLACK features over two hundred and fifty photographs by one hundred and eleven Black photographers whose work embraces the camera’s visual power—discerning, beholding, and documenting people, places, events, collective memories, encounters, and ever-present moments of blackness. From the invisible to the obvious, the mundane to the spectacular, the overlooked to the seen, the erased to the remembered, the artists explore a range of photographic frequencies, styles, and rhythmic scores. SEEING BLACK invites us to explore historical and contemporary archives of Black life while challenging dominant viewing practices, asking who is taking the picture, who is in or missing from the frame, and how to shift our interactions with the visual image through an intentionally embodied Black gaze. A book signing will follow after the panel. Copies will be for sale at the Community Book Center table during the event.
Registration Is Now Closed
Contact Ashley Gates agates@neworleansphotoalliance.org with questions.
Thank you and we look forward to seeing you at the event!
