New Orleans Festival of Photography
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.
Debbie Fleming Caffery has long been recognized as one of the foremost photographers from the American South, but with major bodies of work from Mexico, France, and across the United States, her career has long transcended its Southern roots. In each of the places where she has worked, Caffery has spent significant periods of time […]
“Hello, I’m a Ghost” It is said that photography is good at showing but bad at explaining. This paradox, where photographs speak volumes while remaining silent, is not a weakness but rather an inherent characteristic of the medium and perhaps its greatest strength. “Hello, I’m a Ghost” is the debut issue of Density Magazine. In […]
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 […]
Sunday, December 11, 11am Open to Festival Pass holders with Registration Registration Opens Monday, November 21 Join NOMA curators Russell Lord and Brian Piper to explore the museum’s four current photography exhibitions: Picture Man: Portraits by Polo Silk Called to the Camera: Black American Studio Photographs Anne Noggle: Herself Robert Polidori: Recollections […]
TELL HER NOTHING / SHE TELLS ALL Ashley Gates December 7, 2022 – January 29, 2023 Opening: Saturday, Dec 10, 7-9 pm (Free tarot readings by author Melissa Graeber) In her ongoing series Tell Her Nothing, She Tells All, Ashley Gates documents the alluring advertising of clairvoyants, palmists, and tarot readers in a […]
Flip the Switch: IlLumenating the Power of Nature / Winter Pop Up Exhibition Natasha Sanchez December 21, 2022 The one-day only Winter edition of Flip the Switch: IlLumenating the Power of Nature commences at 3:48pm and then lights up the Winter Solstice’s evening hours in the Coffee Science courtyard. Music performances by Natasha Sanchez […]
