My ongoing series ‘Scenes’ centers around transforming spaces, often a room, into fantastical landscapes which frequently utilize elements of nature and the natural world to tell a story. Each concept, shaped predominantly by events in my life, creates a sort of conceptual autobiography. Building these life-sized installations also allows me to literally live… Read More »2018 CJL Finalist: Dorothy O’Connor

  The still life, as a type of representation, nods toward product and food photography, but I try to complicate the subtext of desire with elements of violence and disgust and humor. In this way, the familiar becomes something strange. Colors and textures and cliches play off each other. Everyday artifacts are carefully arranged within… Read More »2018 CJL finalist: Ashley Miller

  These pictures situate a mystical narrative along the edge of suburbia, a seemingly bland and uneventful place. This banality can incubate something curious, such as the luminous events shown in these landscapes. Conceptually, these pictures depict thresholds between physical, geographical, and psychological states of being. Twilight is situated between day and night, while suburbia… Read More »2018 CJL Finalist: Christopher Jordan

  This series began with a question – How can I show the expansive space all around me in a single two-dimensional image? After some experiments, I realized I could use a mirror in the landscape to join the space behind me with the space in front of me. The series clicked into place when… Read More »2018 CJL Finalist: Kevin Hoth

In her memoir, “Negroland”, Margo Jefferson observes, ”Being an Other, in America, teaches you to imagine what can’t imagine you. That’s your first education.” As an African American artist, my perception has been molded by the bifurcated expectations and contradictions of that unimaginable existence. The physical collages and stereographic devices I create encourage dissociated ideals… Read More »2018 CJL Finalist: Gary Burnley

  My photography is about community and collaboration. It is from this premise, that my work is given roots necessary to grow and influence others. Public involvement has always been the key to my success as a photographer. When I am engaged in the spirit of collective collaboration, things become clear and ideas begin to… Read More »2018 CJL Finalist: Gus Bennett

[one_half][/one_half] The Clarence John Laughlin Award was created by the New Orleans Photo Alliance to support the work of photographers who use the medium as a means of creative expression. It honors the life and work of Clarence John Laughlin (1905-1985), a New Orleans photographer best known for his surrealist images of the American South.… Read More »2018 Finalists: Clarence John Laughlin Award

New Orleans Photo Alliance members are invited to submit work for consideration in CURRENTS 2018. The exhibit will open on December 7 at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in conjunction with the 2018 PhotoNOLA Festival. RELEVANT DATES Deadline: October 25, 2018, 12 am/midnight CST Notification: November 10, 2018 Receipt of artwork: Nov 27, 2018… Read More »CURRENTS 2018