Take a look at NOPA’s August and September Exhibition Calls.

The New Orleans Photo Alliance invites Louisiana photographers of all levels to showcase the extraordinary bond between humans and their canine companions. Submit your best shots for a chance to be featured in our juried exhibition. We’re seeking images that capture the playful, serene, and unforgettable moments shared with our four-legged friends. Winners selected by… Read More »Open Call Deadline September 3: Unleashed

The New Orleans Photo Alliance is excited to announce the open applications to CURRENTS 2024, the annual PhotoNOLA showcase exhibition at Ogden Museum of Southern Art. The exhibition features up to 5  images per selected photographer. The exhibition is designed to give an overview of contemporary photographic practices and projects. The showcase will highlight 8-10… Read More »Open Call Deadline September 30: CURRENTS 2024

The New Orleans Photo Alliance is excited to announce the open applications for the Michael P. Smith Fund for Documentary Photography (MPS Fund). This fund was established to honor the life and work of Michael P. Smith, one of New Orleans’ most legendary and beloved documentary photographers. The MPS Fund awards cash prizes and exhibition… Read More »2024 Michael P. Smith Fund

Work by Richard McCabe – Perdido is a meditation on place, time, and memory. In the fall of 2019, I began making a new series of photographs in the Florida Panhandle. At the same time, my connection to the region through my mother and family was beginning to slip away. Bittersweet feelings of sentimentality for the past and a longing for stability in the present guided my search for solace within art. 

Please join us while we celebrate the photography work created in our NOPA community darkroom by: Amy James @amyjames_photography Raymond Groscrand @groscrand The exhibition runs through March 20th Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday 11am – 4 pm

This collection of photographs and artist statement are excerpted from my recently published book, Tide Lines: A Photographic Record of Louisiana’s Disappearing Coast, (2023. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi). I have spent nine years photographing the beauty, complexity, and destruction of South Louisiana from a powered paraglider. Once formed by sediment deposited by the Mississippi River, Louisiana is now rapidly eroding. Over the past eighty years, our coast has lost two thousand square miles of wetlands in its transition back to open water.

The New Orleans Photo Alliance is excited to announce, after a successful two-month show at The Parlour Gallery, “Freedom or Death / Воля або смерть“ will open at the New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery on Friday the 27th 5:30-8:30pm. We are proud to offer this space for conversation about Ukraine and hope you will join… Read More »Freedom or Death: Welcome to Ukraine.