New Orleans Festival of Photography
20:00 Witkin & Witkin explores the worlds of identical twin brothers, Joel-Peter Witkin, world famous photographer and super star of contemporary art photography and his brother Jerome a realist painter and a life long educator in the fine arts. Our film looks at the distinct paths both artists have taken in their lives as well […]
16:00 “On a Wing and a Prayer” screening and Q&A with director and photographer Ben Depp (Screening and Q&A) Part of Last Call for the Bayou Ben Depp, a landscape photographer, has set out to chronicle the wetlands in a series of high-art aerial photographs that he captures with the help of his 21-foot paragliding […]
11:55 Serendipity: An Afternoon with Simon Blake, Filmmaker* with Simon Blake (*this is a customized program/presentation, unique to this festival)
17:05 The Mexican Suitcase Director Trisha Ziff The Mexican Suitcase tells the story of three lost boxes, found in a closet in Mexico City in 2007, that disappeared in the chaos in Europe at the beginning of World War II. Contained in the suitcase were 4,500. unique negatives, the work of three friends, who met in […]
14:05 The Salt of the Earth The life and work of photographer Sebastião Salgado, who has spent forty years documenting societies in hidden corners of the world.
A film by Alexis Boling, William Boling, and Faisal Azam A Harmonium Films, Fall Line Press and Anarchist Evening Entertainment Production Join for a screening of the film followed by a Q&A with William Boling, producer of the film and founder and publisher of Fall Line Press. Paul Kwilecki: Photographer (2023; 28 minutes) “The greatest […]
Still/Motion: The Festival of Photography in Film celebrates photography at its intersection with cinema, especially as it relates to other fascinating subjects: history, mystery, family, humanity, global and local environment, and cutout animation. This one-day festival at the Broad Theater showcases three feature films, one Louisiana short film, and a special event with New Orleans filmmaker […]
