New Orleans Festival of Photography
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
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, […]
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 […]
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, […]
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. […]
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
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 […]
