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Raw Emotion
February 7, 2020 – March 10, 2020 The NOPA Gallery is excited to host an exhibit with WriteBrained, a local youth program founded by Nic Brierre Aziz. The exhibit will be a collaboration with students from New Orleans Charter Science and Mathematics High School (Sci High) and other New Orleans youth. It will focus on what it means to CURATE. The students will visit the NOPA Gallery for a framing and installation workshop, hosted by…
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Rachel Boillot: Moon Shine
Featured image: Roadside Preacher, LaFollette, TN December 8, 2018 – February 2, 2019 Rachel Boillot, recipient of the 2017 PhotoNOLA Review Prize, presents her series Moon Shine, in which she documents the traditions of music and faith and in the Appalachians. The opening reception is SATURDAY December 15 at 6pm . At 7pm the same night, Rachel Boillot will be joined by Frish Brandt, President and Co-owner of Fraenkel Gallery, for a conversation about her work. Moon Shineis a…
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Eyesolation
November 3, 2018 – November 24, 2018 As human beings, our lives are a continuously transformative process that give us the ability to expand our consciousness in a multitude of ways. At its core, transformation is a process that is a result of intense and mindful reflections of oneself and our relationship to the rest of the world. Unfortunately in today’s world, the possibility and efficacy of these transformative processes are sometimes stunted by illegitimate…
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Balancing Cultures: Jerry Takigawa
June 16, 2018 – August 12, 2018 Featured image: Fifteen Aliens In Balancing Cultures, Jerry Takigawa layers historical photographs and objects to discuss the implications of his family’s experiences in U.S. Japanese concentration camps during WWII. “Making these images, my family’s shame and anger became visible,” he writes. “This work gives voice to a long-silenced family story.” Mr. Takigawa is the recipient of NOPA’s 2017 Clarence John Laughlin award, a $5,000 grant that was created…
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Combat Camera: The Women Behind the Lens
April 18, 2018 – May 31, 2018 The New Orleans Photo Alliance is pleased to present Combat Camera: The Women Behind the Lens, an exhibition featuring official and personal photographs by women in all branches of the military who have served their country as photographers. Every branch of the military employs combat photographers whose purpose is to visually record all aspects of military life and service. This exhibition pairs official photographs from the soldiers’ military…
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DEAFENING SOUND by Annie Flanagan
“You know what’s nice?” she asked me as we left the gas station, “Being able to get in the car and go to the store. Without asking.” September 9, 2017 – November 11, 2017 “Going back and forth between black & white and color, between quiet contemplation and obvious pain, Annie Flanagan allows us to get close to these women so that we cannot turn away. ” –Stella Kramer, juror *Trigger Warning: this project contains…
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POWER by David Emitt Adams
Feature image: Port of Los Angeles, San Pedro, California, David Emitt Adams, tintype made on a 55-gallon steel drum lid July 22, 2017 – September 2, 2017 For the series POWER, David Emitt Adams traveled cross-country and created images directly on 55-gallon oil drum lids using the wet plate collodion process. He hand-built an ultra large-format camera and used a mobile darkroom so that the photographs could be developed on site. Adams is an artist…
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RECOLLECTIONS: A Community Photography Project
Feature image: “Lind and James with Guns,” by Lisa McCord, 1982, silver gelatin print June 10, 2017 – July 16, 2017 RECOLLECTIONS: A Community Photography Project’s NOPA exhibition is part of a collaboration between the Photo Alliance and Kingsley House in New Orleans. The project uses the medium of photography to trigger and document individual memories and their associated emotions. Photographic artists submitted work in response to the exhibition theme, RECOLLECTIONS. Selected images evoke a memory or…