New Orleans Festival of Photography
The Professional Edit with Alyssa Coppelman The Arsenal (Enter through The Cabildo) Wednesday, Dec 12 10am-4pm Class limit: 10 students Workshop fee: $150 | REGISTER HERE [SOLD OUT] Learn from professional photo editor Alyssa Coppelman in a one-day workshop designed to prepare photographers for portfolio reviews and other career opportunities. Editing – the process in […]
Priya Kambli Presentation Sunday, Dec 10, 2017 10am Free and open to the public Priya Kambli’s artwork is intrinsically tied to her own family’s photographic legacy and her move at age 18, following the death of her parents, from India to the United States. Before she emigrated, she and her sister split their photographic inheritance […]
Monique Verdin [Prospect.4] November 18, 2017 – February 25, 2018 Film Screening: My Louisiana Love, Sunday, Dec 10, 2:00pm Monique Verdin is a daughter of southeast Louisiana’s Houma Nation. The complex interconnectedness of environment, economics, culture, climate and change have inspired her to intimately document Houma relatives and their lifeways at the ends of the […]
Frank Relle: Night Works December 1-31, 2017 An evolving show from Frank Relle’s ongoing night-lit explorations of New Orleans architecture alongside Louisiana swamps and bayous. Frank Relle is a photographer born and based in New Orleans, Louisiana. He graduated from Tulane University with degrees in Cognitive Science and Philosophy. His work is included in the […]
Mary West Quin: Mariposa December 1-31, 2017 Opening: Saturday, Dec 9, 5-8pm For PhotoNOLA 2017, Nadine Blake presents cyanotypes and platinum prints by Mary West Quin. Mariposa The flight of the butterflies—often passing through the deep south to the heart of the Yucatan. From the hubris of American civilization to the ruins of a collapsed […]
Ashley Gilbertson Presentation Sunday, Dec 10, 11am THNOC Williams Research Center Free and open to the public Ashley Gilbertson, an award winning photographer and writer with the VII Photo Agency, will be presenting his work concerning the Iraq war, the Bedrooms of Fallen Soldiers, and refugees. Gilbertson’s photographic chronicle of the Iraq War was published […]
Michel Varisco: Below Sea Level November 17, 2017 – February 25, 2018 Opening: Saturday, Dec 9, 5-8pm A native New Orleanian, Michel Varisco has dedicated her decades-long career to exploring the endangered environs of Southeast Louisiana and the Gulf coast, including the tenuous relationships between organic and engineered environments. Through a deep immersion in our […]
Sarah Paz Hyde: Wonder lost December 1-31, 2017 Opening: Friday, Dec 1, 7-9pm Wonder lost is an ongoing series that examines the relationship between childhood memories and their transition to adult recollections of the past. In capturing fabricated and found spaces, Sarah Paz Hyde encourages the viewer to connect with missing parts of themselves through visual […]
Michael Kenna Photographs November 30, 2017 – December 30, 2017 Opening: Thursday, Nov 30, 5-8pm Michael Kenna travels the world, attuned to the aesthetic, emotional, and spiritual resonance of natural and urban landscapes, which he seeks to capture in his exquisite black-and-white photographs. Kenna uses long exposure times and shoots in inclement weather to obscure […]
Bethany Bultman & Penny Weaver: Subject & Photographer December 7-10, 2017 Opening: Saturday, Dec 9, 1pm Subject & Photographer will host a salon sharing stories from Bethany Bultman and Penny Weaver. Penny will tell of her experiences photographing Henri Cartier-Brisson, Rosa Parks, and Harper Lee While Bethany will tell stories of being photographed by Herman […]
