New Orleans Festival of Photography
SEEING BLACK: Panel discussion with authors Eric Waters and Shana M. griffin, and artists Ashley Lorraine, Christine “Cfreedom” Brown, and Tod Smith. Published by University of New Orleans Press, SEEING BLACK features over two hundred images by nearly ninety Black photographers whose work embraces the camera’s visual power—discerning, beholding, and documenting people, places, events, collective […]
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 […]
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 […]
Each photographer will discuss their winning series with an accompanying slideshow projection. The Michael P. Smith Fund for Documentary Photography fund 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 […]
Loyola University’s Department of Design presents “A Tribute to Harold Baquet: Picturing Blackness,” a retrospective of the noted New Orleans photographer, in dialogue with 10 other Black and brown photographers. This exhibition is curated by L. Kasimu Harris. The exhibition of 55 photographs is on view on the 4th floor of Monroe Library at Loyola […]
