“The Great Picture,” billed as the largest photograph ever made and a “final marker” of 170 years of film and chemical-based photography, is on exhibit now at New Orleans’ Contemporary Arts Center, and through December’s PhotoNOLA festival. The photograph was made using the world’s largest camera–an abandoned hangar for fighter jets in Southern California that was… Read More »Largest photograph ever showing at CAC through PhotoNOLA

“Nathan and Robyn,” by Richard Renaldi. A two-day portraiture workshop with photographer Richard Renaldi has been scheduled for PhotoNOLA, the city’s annual festival of photography. The event is set for Friday, Dec. 13 and Saturday, Dec. 14 at 1128 St. Roch Avenue (formerly the Homespace gallery) in the St. Claude Arts District. The workshop is… Read More »Portrait workshop with Richard Renaldi set for PhotoNOLA

The New Orleans Fringe Festival, an annual theater event set this year for November 20-24, is seeking art to show on walls at a Bywater area location, and is inviting NOPA members to send work for this purpose. More specifically, the festival is planning to put together 30 hours of slide show material to show… Read More »NOLA Fringe Fest seeking art to show on Bywater alley walls

Notice: The deadline for entry has been extended to Friday, Nov. 15. New Orleans’ International House hotel, in collaboration with PhotoNOLA, is inviting photographers, as well as mixed-media artists whose work incorporates photography, to submit images for “MAGDALENA,” an exhibit of work that imagines or reimagine the biblical figure Mary Magdalene. The juried exhibit will… Read More »Entries sought for International House’s ‘MAGDALENA’

Supporters of Jim Belfon, NOPA member and founder of the Gulf South Photography Project, a service that provided photo instruction to more than 1,200 youth and senior citizens in post-Katrina New Orleans, are seeking financial assistance for the photographer as he struggles with with late-stage prostate cancer. Belfon’s supporters, in New Orleans and his native… Read More »Financial, photo support sought for NOPA member Belfon

PhotoNOLA is currently offering “Las Estrellas,” (above) a selection from Josephine Sacabo’s Nocturnes series, as its inaugural Collectors Club print. The limited edition of 100 prints (plus five artists proofs) was created exclusively for supporters of the photography festival. The edition is an archival pigment print, featuring a 9×7” image size on 12×10” hot press, 100%… Read More »Sacabo print is first offering of PhotoNOLA’s Collectors Club

Work-in-progress features several NOPA members, photographers City of Memory, a work-in-progress documentary by filmmaker Robert Adanto that focuses on how the New Orleans artistic community’s responded to and was affected by the flooding after Hurricane Katrina, will be screened at the city’s Contemporary Arts Center this weekend. The screening will begin at 7 p.m. in… Read More »Look at Post-Katrina artistic community pre-screens Saturday

New Orleans’ Contemporary Arts Center is accepting submissions now through Tuesday, Oct. 1 for “Unfolding Images,” a juried photobook exhibition set for this December in connection with PhotoNOLA, the Crescent City’s annual festival of photography. The exhibit will run from December 2 through December 30 at the CAC. Selected books will be on view in… Read More »CAC seeks submissions for PhotoNOLA photobook competition