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 […]
Contemporary Louisiana photographers J. T. Blatty, Kristie Cornell, and Virginia Hanusik have turned their lenses on the vanishing environments and cultures of south Louisiana. Presented in conjunction with the annual PhotoNOLA festival, HNOC’s 2024 Jules L. Cahn John H. Lawrence Photography Lecture will bring these powerful artists together to share their projects, photographic practices, and […]
This exhibition details a history of the extensive overlap between photography and writing. If a picture is worth a thousand words, as the saying goes, photographers – and users of photography – have routinely found reasons to add a few more words into the mix for good measure. The exhibition includes straight-forward pictures of signs, […]
