New Orleans’ Octavia Art Gallery is set to host a Louisiana-centric exhibit featuring traditional and alternative-process photographs, alongside photos from the digital filter-intensive, retro-flavored photo website Instagram. The exhibit, “Contemporary Antiques,” will open on Saturday, Dec. 1, in connection with the 7th Annual PhotoNOLA festival. A reception is set for 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday.… Read More »‘Contemporary Antiques’: Louisiana through retro filters, film

The McKenna Museum of African-American Art, located in New Orleans’ Central City area, will host, “Faces of Tremé,” an exhibition featuring work by Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun, beginning Friday, Nov. 30, in connection with the 7th Annual PhotoNOLA festival. An opening reception will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. on Friday at the… Read More »McKenna Museum hosts “Faces of Tremé” for PhotoNOLA

New Orleans photographer and NOPA member Josephine Sacabo and poet Dalt Wonk will be at A Gallery for Fine Photography in the French Quarter this Saturday, Dec., 1 , for a show of photographs and book signing in connection with their collaborative book “Noctures.” The event is being held in connection with the 7th Annual PhotoNOLA, New Orleans’  festival… Read More »Sacabo signing marks French Quarter gallery event Saturday

A series of portraits by NOPA member Kevin Kline, “Someday You Will Be a Memory,” will be exhibited at the Biffi Arte exhibition space in Piacenza, Italy, beginning next Saturday, Nov. 24. The exhibit, which will run through December 9, features Kline’s portraits of New Orleanians, all taken with black-and-white film. More information about the… Read More »NOPA member Kline’s portraits on exhibit in Piacenza, Italy

Submissions are now being accepted for, “Louisiana Purchase: 2nd National Biennial Exhbition,” a juried, multi-media exhibition of two-dimensional works, including photographs, set for early 2013 on the campus of Louisiana Tech University in Ruston. The entry deadline is Sunday, Nov. 18. Up to five images may be submitted by 11:59 p.m. on Sunday. The fee… Read More »Louisiana Tech seeks entries for 2nd national biennial exhibit

 “For me, photography is an investigation into the nature of being”  Steve Pyke, a leading portrait photographer and contributing photographer at The New Yorker magazine, will discuss his work on Friday, Nov. 9 at the NOPA gallery in the Crescent City’s Lower Garden District. The talk is set to begin at 7 p.m. The gallery… Read More »Portrait photographer Steve Pyke at NOPA Gallery Friday

“The Skinning House,” Kathleen Robbins In connection with PhotoNOLA 2012, New Orleans’ annual festival of photography, the NOPA gallery will host an exhibit of work by Alliance member Kathleen Robbins, winner of the PhotoNOLA 2011 Review Prize. The exhibit, “Kathleen Robbins: Into the Flatlands, will feature work of Robbins’ that focuses on the Mississippi Delta, a culturally… Read More »Robbins’ Miss. Delta photos in NOPA exhibit for PhotoNOLA

NOPA member Sophie Lvoff and her color photography work in New Orleans are showcased this month as part of the “Eyes on the South” series of the Oxford American magazine’s website. The series, curated by photographer Jeff Rich of Savannah, Ga., regularly features emerging or student photographers from the American South. At the literary publication’s Internet home,… Read More »Oxford American features work of NOPA member Sophie Lvoff