New Orleans Festival of Photography
CURRENTS 2021 and PhotoWALK Festival Event December 10, 2021, 6:00pm-9:00pm CURRENTS is an annual exhibition that highlights the diverse photographic work being created by New Orleans Photo Alliance members. It is a showcase exhibition designed to give an overview of contemporary photographic practices and projects. The exhibit will open in December at the Ogden […]
Spell, Time, Practice, American, Body RaMell Ross October 23, 2021-March 27, 2022 Ross will be giving a guided gallery talk during the CURRENTS 2021 Opening and PhotoWALK on Friday, December 10, 6 pm on the Ogden’s 4th floor. In 2018, photographer, filmmaker, and educator RaMell Ross released the documentary film Hale County This Morning, […]
Shalom Y’all: A Snapshot of Southern Jewish Life Bill Aron Until-April 24, 2022 Over thirty years ago, the original Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience in Utica, Mississippi, launched an ambitious initiative with project director Vicki Reikes Fox and photographer Bill Aron to capture images of rural and urban Southern Jewish communities. One trip […]
CURRENTS 2021: NOPA Members Showcase December 10, 2021-February 6, 2022 Opening: Friday, December 10, 2021, 6-9 pm It was a pleasure and an unexpected challenge to look through so many stand-out examples of photography being made today. A pleasure in that I love looking at work; a challenge in that I had to choose […]
George Dureau: Photographs George Dureau October 23, 2021-January 23, 2022 Opening: October 23, 2021 George Dureau: Photographs New Orleans artist George Dureau photographed a diversity of people in postures that speak to his keen eye, as well as the trust he developed with his models — many of whom were Black, and/or had amputations, […]
In This Here Place [and] Evergreen Dawoud Bey October 23, 2021-January 23, 2022 Opening: October 23, 2021 Acclaimed photographer Dawoud Bey’s images poetically capture resonances of the Black American past in the present. For Prospect.5, Bey presents In This Here Place, a series of photographs of now unpopulated landscapes that were the site of […]
Ishimoto Yasuhiro: Centennial Selections Ishimoto Yasuhiro July 26, 2021 – February 6, 2022 To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ishimoto Yasuhiro (Japanese, born United States, 1921–2012), NOMA presents a selection of works from its collection that reveals the artist’s capacity for capturing humanity with both empathy and detachment, as well as […]
A Brief History of Photography and Transmission A collaboration of artist June 25 – March 20, 2022 While it may seem that the story of photography traces an inevitable arc from a unique material experience toward an infinitely reproducible phenomenon, it could be argued that one of the most important “histories” of photography is […]
Great-ish Hits Rick Olivier Now-March 13, 2022 On September 17, 2020, the New Orleans Jazz Museum celebrated the debut of an exhibit of Rick Olivier’s music photographs entitled Great-ish Hits. The exhibition features iconic photographs of local legends including, Aaron and Art Neville, Champion Jack Depree, Irma Thomas, and many others, plus a selection […]
“Exit Stage Right”- Zack Smith’s Festival Portraits Zach Smith December 3 – May 5, 2022 Opening: Friday, December 3, 5:30-7 pm “Exit Stage Right” – Zack Smith‘s Festival Portraits This exhibit features prints, collages, and wallpaper montages from the backstage portraits series by New Orleans photographer Zack Smith. The images were all shot from […]
