Opens Mar 27 – Closes May 14th
Much like déjà vu, a double exposure can evoke a sense of mystery and layered meanings. Déjà vu itself is an illusion of memory, where a vivid sense of recollection arises even though the time, place, and context of the “previous” experience remain elusive or impossible. A double exposure can hold many interpretations. It might be two negatives stacked in a darkroom, a single 35mm frame exposed twice, or the juxtaposition of two contrasting ideas—love and hate—somehow captured within a single image. We challenge you to delve into your vision, expand your photographic mind, and uncover the double exposures that move you, make you think, or stir your emotions.
Double exposure photography has a long and fascinating history. Emerging in the mid-19th century, early photographers experimented with multiple exposures on a single plate or film. This technique gained popularity in the Victorian era, particularly within the realm of spirit photography, where ghostly figures were often superimposed onto portraits. In the early 20th century, artists like Man Ray and László Moholy-Nagy embraced double exposure as a means of expressing surrealist ideas and challenging traditional photographic conventions. With the advent of digital photography, double exposure became more accessible, leading to a resurgence in popularity and fostering a new wave of creative experimentation.

About the Curators:
leslie Tabony
A self-taught digital photographer based in New Orleans, LA, leslie Tabony, is an artist using her own associations as she creates narratives which focus on the sublime and the ethereal.
The relationship of longing, sensuality and spirituality are often explored in her love of the portraiture of women. The women offer themselves, their introspection. Their femininity is defined as inner strength, movement, serenity, and ability to tread the threshold between the present and other worldiness.
Her work uses unusual light, diffusion, soft focus, solarization, shadow, a pictorial aesthetic and meticulous compositions to find the beauty in paring a visceral emotion amidst paradoxical extremes. Infinitude, vulnerability, submission, reverence, sexuality, desire, dreams, the melancholic, the ethereal, stillness, and quietude are weaved together — So too are poetry, philosophy, eras of times gone by — 18th, 19th and early 20th century. Her work is mostly black and white, but sepia, duotones and even colour are used depending on the Body of Work.
Nicolas Boulier
Nicolas BOULIER founded the only gallery dedicated exclusively to contemporary photography in the Deep South. It was a no-brainer for him when he decided to renovate a historic building in New Orleans’ arts district. Throughout his many professional lives, he used the still images. To encourage, influence, raise awareness, interest, sell, seduce, attract or even move. The double exposure school recalls him the capital of surrealism, the City of Magritte, BRUSSELS, where he worked for 3 years. He would have dreamed of using double exposure to reinforce his efforts propagandist … or on the contrary escape!
