Found 45 Events
Learn to make photo zines with Jeff Phillips
International House Hotel Conference Facility
Learn to make photo zines with Jeff PhillipsOpening: Thursday, December 12 - 10am
Kodachrome Cocktail @ Loa Bar
International House Hotel: Loa
Wed, Dec 11, 2024 - Sat, Dec 14, 2024Stop by the Loa Bar at the PhotoNOLA home base International House Hotel for the Kodachrome Cocktail--an herbaceous and refreshing cocktail that develops right in front of your eyes!
The Collective – December Shows
The Front
Sat, Dec 14, 2024 - Sun, Jan 5, 2025The Front Collective presents 4 solo shows by 3 collective members, Dani Leal, Elliot Stokes and Lily Brooks, and one guest artist, Tiranee Moody:
Opening: December 14th, 6-10pm
Southern Hospitality: Community Spirit
Ashé Cultural Arts Center
Sat, Dec 14, 2024 - Sun, Dec 29, 2024Southern hospitality refers to the warm, welcoming, and courteous behavior that is traditionally associated with the southern United States, particularly in social interactions. This cultural practice emphasizes generosity, kindness, and an open-hearted approach to local community members and visitors alike.
Opening: Saturday, Dec 14, 5-8pm
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Staple Goods
Sat, Dec 14, 2024 - Sun, Jan 5, 2025J August Knoblach's exhibition features seven years of performances on bodies of water in Louisiana, handmade cypress frames, & new multimedia sculptures. Photographer collaborators include Kinsey S, Caitlyn Ridenour, Leone Julitte, Gabby Garcia Steib, Mayaba Liebenthal, Sarrah Danziger, Alahna Moore, & Kristina E. Knipe.
Opening: December 14th 6p to 9:30pm
Breath Between Worlds
Hey! Café
Fri, Dec 13, 2024 - Sun, Dec 15, 2024Allen Clark’s 16 year project makes its debut at Hey Cafe as a pop up and transforms these technological marvels into artistic symbols of exploration.
Seeing Black: Panel Discussion and Book Signing
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
Sat, Dec 14, 2024 - Sat, Dec 14, 2024SEEING 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
Opening: December 14, 2024 - 3:00pm - 5:00pm
ASK A CURATOR: Q&A with Gregory Harris and C. Rose Smith
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
Sat, Dec 14, 2024 - Sat, Dec 14, 2024Have 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).
Opening: December 14, 2024 - 2:00pm - 2:50pm
What We Talk About When We Talk About Publishing: A Lecture by Michelle Dunn Marsh
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
Sat, Dec 14, 2024 - Sat, Dec 14, 2024Michelle Dunn Marsh was employed in the publishing industry for two decades before conceiving and launching Minor Matters a dozen years ago.
Opening: December 14, 2024 - 12pm - 12:50pm
As Wind, Within Trees
Fourth Wall
Thu, Dec 12, 2024 - Fri, Jan 12, 2024In a city where history whispers through live oaks and water rests just beneath the surface, “As Wind, Within Trees” invites viewers to journey into the intersections of ancestry, identity, and transformation.
Opening: Saturday December 14: 5-8pm.
Michael P Smith Grant Award Winners: Presentations Camille Farrah Lenain, Beth Lilly, and Cedric Dent
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
Sat, Dec 14, 2024 - Sat, Dec 14, 2024Each 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.
Opening: December 14, 2024 - 11am - 11:50am
Jules L. Cahn’s Annual John H. Lawrence Photography Lecture
The Historic New Orleans Collection’s Williams Research Center
Wed, Dec 11, 2024 - Wed, Dec 11, 2024Contemporary 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 distinctive visions.
Opening: Wednesday, December 11, 2024 5:30–7 p.m.
A Tribute to Harold Baquet: Picturing Blackness, curated by L. Kasimu Harris
Diboll Design Center on the 4th floor of Monroe Library at Loyola University New Orleans
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.
King & Blue: The Vanishing Black Bars & Lounges Experience at Sweet Lorraine’s Jazz Club
Sweet Lorraine’s Jazz Club
Sat, Nov 2, 2024 - Sun, Feb 2, 2025L. Kasimu Harris, a New Orleans-based artist, hosts an immersive late-night conversation and celebration for his “King & Blue” photographic exhibition at Sweet Lorraine’s Jazz Club.
ANTIGRAVITY PRESENTS: 20 Years of Chaos in Print
Suis Generis
Sat, Dec 14, 2024 - Sun, Jan 5, 2025Come see the collaged pages of the ANTIGRAVITY 20 Year Anniversary (June 2024) special edition, via large prints capturing just some of New Orleans' "alternative to culture" over two decades.
Opening: Saturday 12/14 7 PM
Diversify Photo + Friends: New Orleans
Peychaud’s
Thu, Dec 12, 2024We’re hosting a Diversify Photo Meetup near you during PhotoNOLA 2024! This meetup is open to Diversify Photo Full and Up Next members and others. You don't need to be a member to attend. Photographers who identify as a person of color or non-Western are encouraged to join us.
Opening: December 12 · 4:30pm CST
IMMIGRANTS & POST-KATRINA REBIRTH @ 20
ArteFutruro José Torres-Tama Studio
Sat, Dec 14, 2024 - Sat, Jan 11, 2025From 2010 to 2019 award-winning interdisciplinary artist and photographer, José Torres-Tama, documented the many public protests of undocumented immigrants, who contributed to epic rebirth of post-Katrina New Orleans, and on view at his ArteFuturo Studio, he will display numerous black and white photos from this series and a number of photo assemblages he also created.
Opening: Sat, Dec 14, 2024 from 6-10pm
Show & Tell: A Brief History of Photography and Text
New Orleans Museum of Art
Fri, Jul 12, 2024 - Sun, Feb 16, 2025This 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.
Intimate Fictions
Gryder Gallery
Sat, Dec 14, 2024 - Sat, Jan 25, 2025A group show Featuring Photography by Alexis Martino will open. Martino will present her new book for purchase at the opening. Martino's photographs showcase thirty years of photography about intimacy, loss, and desire.
Opening: 12/14/24, 5pm - 7pm
Palette of Perception: Reimagining the Familiar
Vino Fine Wine and Spirits
Fri, Dec 6, 2024 - Sun, Dec 22, 2024"Palette of Perception: Reimagining the Familiar" showcases a collection of nine images by photographer Garret DeReus, marking his debut exhibition. This series represents a exploration of color and form, transforming everyday scenes into captivating visual experiences.
Opening: December 6, 2024 (expected - subject to change)
Camera & Collage
Kolaj Institute
Fri, Nov 29, 2024 - Sat, Jan 25, 2025The mediums of collage and photography are bound together in an ongoing dialogue. The photographer makes pictures of the world. The collagist remixes those pictures to tell a story about the world we live in. What happens when the photographer begins collaging their own work? What happens when the collage artist picks up the camera?
Opening: December 14, 2024, 6PM to 8PM
Honoring and Remembering a Resilient Community
Antenna Gallery
Sat, Oct 12, 2024 - Sat, Jan 11, 2025Together, we celebrate and honor the resilience and spirit of the Lower 9th Ward, showcasing its cultural richness and spirituality within a working class community. The people of the Lower 9th Ward are at the heart of this exhibition, as much of what we’ve created stems from our long standing social activism and engagement with this community-family.
Opening: December 14th, 2024
In Rooms presents The Other Side: Spiritualism in Photography
In Rooms Gallery
Wed, Dec 11, 2024 - Sun, Dec 15, 2024Spiritualism in Art & Photography gained momentum in the mid 1800s and early 1900s alongside the surrealist movement. It gained widespread noteriety through mediums who communicated with deceased and hosted seances, but in a less advertised movement, this artistic expression gave women a voice during a time when they were otherwise limited in their rights and expression.
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Boulier Gallery
Sat, Dec 7, 2024 - Fri, Jan 3, 2025David Joshua Jennings will show his work called "Color exploring New Orleans". A part of the show is present right now at Ogden museum. Brittainy LAUBACK will show the work of her book "Infinite Bonheur".
Opening: Saturday December 7 - 5-9pm
BALDWIN LEE
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
Sat, Oct 5, 2024 - Sun, Feb 16, 2025With this work, Lee had found his primary subject, and credits his many years of working within Black communities throughout the South as having a “political” effect on his life and art. The compassion Lee felt for those he photographed resonates within his work.
Invented Truth
A Gallery for Fine Photography
Thu, Oct 17, 2024Invented Truth is composed of 20 hand-selected photogravures with chine-collé on Japanese tissue. On display at A Gallery for Fine Photography through 2025
Opening: October 17, 2024 4:00-6:00 pm
Manifest: An f/504 Annual Exhibition
Ferrara Showman Gallery
This interactive event invites you to dress in bold, eye-catching attire that celebrates striking colors, geometric shapes, and unconventional forms. Think modular and angular—fashion that transforms into art.Opening: December 14 - 4pm-8pm
Editing & Sequencing Strategies for your Photobook with Eliot Dudik
International House Hotel
Fri, Dec 13, 2024 - Fri, Dec 13, 2024While you are in town for PhotoNOLA, join Eliot Dudik and other like-minded folks for a Friday afternoon workshop designed to help you grapple with editing and sequencing strategies and solutions for your personal photobook projects.
Opening: December 13, 2024, 12pm-4pm
NOLA SMILES BACK
One to One Gallery
Fri, Dec 13, 2024 - Sun, Dec 15, 2024Recent New Orleans resident, Ethan Dawes, aims to capture New Orleans as the city has introduced herself to him; in smiles and celebration.
Opening: 12/13/24 6pm
Synchronicity
Chais Delachaise
This exhibit showcases a journey of Amy James photography work that provided; inspiration, interpretation, contemplation through observation. Life often provides all of the above and in capturing it on film, allows for all of the above.Opening: To be determined
Currents 2024
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
Fri, Dec 13, 2024 - Sun, Feb 23, 2025PhotoNOLA Showcase exhibition at Ogden Museum of Southern Art
Opening: December 13, 2024
Auspicious Things
Nadine Blake
Sat, Dec 14, 2024 - Tue, Dec 31, 2024Miniature cyanotype and palladium platinum photograms of auspicious objects. Hand coated prints in direct contact with objects that conjure a sense of luck or intuitions of a beneficial direction.
Opening: December 14, 2024. 6-9 pm
New Orleans Community Printshop & Darkroom Analogue Photography Showcase
Johnnie B & Friends Gallery
Sat, Dec 7, 2024 - Sat, Dec 7, 2024A group exhibition of the darkroom members and friends featuring analogue / traditional process prints.
Opening: December 7th, 6pm-9pm
FACE CARD
Bywater Framing
Wed, Dec 11, 2024 - Mon, Jan 6, 2025Léone Julitte is a French photographer based in New Orleans committed to documenting communities rooted in radical self-expression. Her personal polaroid archive is shown here for the first time musing on local queer costuming and night life.
Opening: Saturday Dec, 14th, 6pm to 10pm
Close to the Bayou
Thomas Mann Gallery and Studio
Wed, Dec 11, 2024 - Fri, Jan 31, 2025Dimitri Staszewski will be officially launching his first photobook Close to the Bayou at the Thomas Mann Gallery and Studio. The exhibition will feature prints from the project alongside the book itself.
Opening: Dec.12, 5-8PM, Artist Lecture 6PM, Dec.13, 6-9PM, Dec.14, 6-9 PM
The Keepers
Claire Elizabeth Gallery
Fri, Nov 29, 2024 - Tue, Dec 31, 2024In this small body of work by Ashleigh Coleman, the majestic live oak, a prevalent visual and environmental marker throughout the South, is shown through the photographer's lens. The work was previously shown in "Majestic Visions; the Southern Live Oak" at the Walter Anderson Museum of Art in Ocean Springs, MS.
Opening: Saturday December 7, 2024, 4-6pm
The Unknowns
Bywater Fine Art Printing Studio
Sat, Dec 14, 2024 - Sat, Dec 21, 2024The Unknowns is a solo show by Leona Strassberg Steiner at the Bywater Fine Art Printing Studio. Works include image transfers, cyanotypes and giclee prints. Steiner is a visual artist living and working in New Orleans since 2014.
Opening: December 14th 5-9pm
PhotoBOOK Fair
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
Sat, Dec 14, 2024 - Sat, Dec 14, 2024Patrick F. Taylor Library
Opening: Saturday, Dec 14, 11-5:00pm
France, Spain, and the French Quarter.
Joseph Walton Photography Gallery
Sun, Dec 1, 2024 - Tue, Dec 31, 2024A solo show featuring works from the photographers catalog of Spain, France and French Quarter.
Opening: Friday, December 13th at 5:00pm
Mineralogie Presents Penguin of Antarctica: Photos For Rockhounds by Julie Dermansky
Mineralogie
Thu, Dec 5, 2024 - Wed, Jan 8, 2025Nola community's newest rock shop in old Gretna presents photographs of penguin by Julie Dermansky she created in Antartica including images of Emperor penguin, one of a growing number of species threaten by climate change.
Opening: Opening night- Dec 5 6pm to 8:30 pm.
What We Leave Unsaid
LeMieux Galleries
Sat, Nov 2, 2024 - Sat, Dec 21, 2024In this exhibition, Hayman takes a humanist approach to street photography which reads as a love letter to the city of New Orleans.
Opening: November 2nd and December 7th
Tribe at the Crossroads – images of Ethiopia
Jillian Mac Fine Art
Sun, Dec 1, 2024 - Thu, Oct 31, 2024In his latest project, A Tribe at the Crossroads: 20 years in Ethiopia, Dome delves into the struggles faced by the Mursi tribe as they navigate the challenges of modernity while striving to preserve their traditional ways of life.
Opening: December 7, 2024 - 6-9pm
La Vie du Cabaret
Bar Redux
Wed, Dec 11, 2024 - Thu, Jan 30, 2025A solo exhibit by photographer Vincent Simmons. Expressions of Identity captures the textures and facets of some of the myriad local flavor through portraits that reflect the identity of the subjects back to the viewer.
Opening: 12/11/24, 8pm - Midnight
Gravitas
New Orleans Healing Center
Wed, Dec 11, 2024 - Sat, Jan 4, 2025Gravitas is a visual journey representing complex and surreal realities.
Opening: Opening 12/14/2024 6-9pm
Abstract Sur-Real
New Orleans Photo Alliance
Sat, Nov 16, 2024 - Sun, Jan 14, 2024This exhibition seeks to explore the multifaceted nature of portraiture through lenses of abstraction, surrealism, realism, and spatial depth.
Opening: November 16, 2024 5-8PM
