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2025 Exhibitions

25 for 250: New Orleans Culture Celebrates America Photographs By Charles Muir Lovell

Gallery Huracan
Sat, Dec 5, 2026 - Sat, Feb 27, 2027
25 for 250: New Orleans Culture Celebrates America Photographs By Charles Muir Lovell is a solo photography exhibition featuring 25 documentary photographs of New Orleans traditions including second lines, jazz funerals, and social aid and pleasure clubs, highlighting the unique culture of our city.
Opening: Saturday December 5, 2026, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m.

ANTI-IMMIGRANT HYSTERIA: & Latin American Workers in New Orleans

ArteFutruro José Torres-Tama Studio
Sat, Dec 5, 2026
ANTI-IMMIGRANT HYSTERIA:& Latin American Workers in New Orleans Photography of Post-Katrina Protests 2010 - 2019
Opening: SAT, DEC 5, 2026 from 5-9pm

Confluence: The Tina Freeman Collection of Photographs

New Orleans Museum of Art
Fri, Nov 20, 2026 - Sat, Jul 4, 2026
To celebrate the opening of "Confluence: The Tina Freeman Collection of Photographs," join us and PhotoNOLA in NOMA’s Lapis Center for the Arts for an intergenerational conversation about the exhibition and career experiences in the field of photography.

Diptych Pics: Show Us Your Pair

NOLA ‘Nacular
Sat, Dec 5, 2026 - Sun, Dec 27, 2026
In the main gallery room, Diptych Pics: Show Us Your Pair. A group show of pairs of photos that have something to say to each other, curated by Eric Cartier and Logan Lott.
Opening: Saturday December 5, 6pm-10pm

Electric Box Graffiti: Photography & Collage By Ric Kasini Kadour

LeMieux Galleries
Wed, Dec 2, 2026 - Thu, Dec 31, 2026
Riffing on Joseph Kosuth's 1965 conceptual artwork, One and Three Chairs, "Electric Box Graffiti" by Ric Kasini Kadour is twenty-one analogue collages and four photographs presented in a grid and offered to the viewer as twenty-five images of the same thing.
Opening: Saturday, December 5, 6-9 PM

Holding Ground: On Gathering

The Art Spot
Tue, Dec 1, 2026 - Sun, Jan 31, 2027
The New Orleans Photo Alliance invites photographers to explore gathering as both a hidden influence and a beacon of resilience. From elite networks wielding unchecked global power to community demonstrations of joy and protest — including Mardi Gras here in our own city — we seek images that reflect how communities, large and small, convene in an uncertain world
Opening: Dec 5th 2026 6-8pm

James Barbee: Somewhere In Between

Gallery Huracan
Sat, Dec 5, 2026 - Sat, Feb 27, 2027
hotographer James Barbee will present, Seeking the Rapture: Exploring the People, Places, and History of the Lower Mississippi River Valley and Beyond which presents photographs inspired by that portion of the Mississippi River between Cairo, Illinois and New Orleans from his recently published 120-page hardcover book published in 2026 by George F. Thompson Publishing, LLC.
Opening: Saturday, December 5 2026, 5 pm to 8 pm

Photo N.O.w

Sullivan Gallery and Cuneo Glass
Thu, Dec 3, 2026 - Sat, Jan 30, 2027
3 Photographers Toby Armstrong: Summertime in December Dennis Brady: Urban images that summarize the collective Jackson Hill: Constructed imaginary portraits of working New Orleans photographers
Opening: Saturday December 5, 2026 5-8pm

SHOOTERS working pictures

Sullivan Gallery and Cuneo Glass
Fri, Dec 4, 2026 - Tue, Jan 30, 3027
Shooters is an homage to a number of New Orleans photographers I have known over the last 45 years. I have worked for them, hired them, photographed them, or worked alongside them. Some are young, some old, and at least one is long dead.
Opening: Saturday December 4, 2026 5-8pm

Snap Happy Variety Show

Petite Rouge Coffee
Sun, Nov 22, 2026 - Sun, Dec 13, 2026
Snap Happy is a fun little collective of photographers and models that meet up once a month for a fun photoshoot. In celebration of PhotoNOLA we are displaying a collection of photos from our various meetups. The always delightful Petite Rouge is hosting us.
Opening: November 22 1pm

Still Life in New Orleans

Press Street Garden
Tue, Dec 1, 2026 - Mon, May 3, 2027
"Still Life in New Orleans" is a new project by Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee. The series isolates objects of cultural and historical importance to New Orleans and enshrines them in a floral still life that is a celebration and memorial.
Opening: 3pm at Press Street Garden 800 Homer Plessy Way (formerly Press Street)

What We Are Given

Low Point Coffee
Mon, Nov 2, 2026 - Sun, Jan 3, 2027
What We Are Given brings together photographs by Jade Thiraswas and Camille Farrah Lenain exploring the possibilities and limits of portraiture.
Opening: Saturday Nov. 14 and Closing Saturday Dec. 12
ArteFutruro José Torres-Tama Studio
1329 Saint Roch Avenue
New Orleans, Louisiana 70117
New Orleans Museum of Art
1 Collins Diboll Circle, City Park
New Orleans, Louisiana 70124
NOLA ‘Nacular
1172 Magazine Street
New Orleans, Louisiana 70130
LeMieux Galleries
332 Julia Street
New Orleans, Louisiana 70130
The Art Spot
2011 Magazine St
New Orleans, Louisiana 70130
Sullivan Gallery and Cuneo Glass
3827 Magazine Street
New Orleans, Louisiana 70115
Sullivan Gallery and Cuneo Glass
3827 Magazine Street
New Orleans, Louisiana 70115
Petite Rouge Coffee
3146 Calhoun St.
New Orleans, Louisiana 70125
Press Street Garden
800 Homer Plessy Way
New Orleans, Louisiana 70117
Low Point Coffee
3700 St. Claude Ave
New Orleans, Louisiana 70117
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