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
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
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.
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
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
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
Diversity 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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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)
PHOTO NOLA colourful
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
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.
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
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
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
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