NOPA member Danell Beede, whose “in flight” was shown in the recent Members Exhibition at the Photo Alliance gallery, has been named the grand prize winner of the Great Outdoors Photography Competition. The competition was presented by the magazine PDN: Photo District News. Beede’s “in flight” appears twice in the magazine’s August issue, on newsstands… Read More »NOPA member Beede wins top prize of PDN outdoors contest

A rough cut of NOPA member David Rae Morris’ “Yazoo Revisited,” a history of school desegregation and civil rights in Yazoo City, Miss, will be shown at the Alliance’s regular members meeting this Wednesday, July 25. Morris’ Yazoo City project was partially funded by a Mississippi Humanities Council grant, applied for via the Photo Alliance.… Read More »Morris’ ‘Yazoo Revisited’ set for preview at NOPA meeting

New Orleans’ L’entrepôt and Cathedral Creative Studios are seeking submissions from photographers in connection with the Crescent City segment of Bombay Sapphire Artisan Series, a national visual arts competition. The deadline for submissions is Friday, Aug. 24. Entry is free of charge. Artists are only asked to remember that winning submissions will represent the the… Read More »Cathedral/L’entrepôt seek submissions for Artisan Series

NOPA will be holding a programming committee meeting on Wednesday, July 18, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. The committee will be working out final details for 2012 events, and after that will begin brainstorming sessions for 2013 exhibitions, lectures, workshops and other events. If you cannot make it to the meeting, but have ideas you… Read More »NOPA Programming Committee meeting set for July 18

F-Stop Magazine, an online photography journal that features contemporary photography from established and emerging photographers worldwide, is seeking submissions for two upcoming issues. These include the following issues, with the two having individually unique themes: Issue 54, August/September 2012Latin American issueDeadline: Sunday, July 15Only photos taken in Latin America may be submitted for this issue, but… Read More »F-Stop Magazine seeking submissions for upcoming issues

New Orleans Local News, Weather, Sports, Investigations   The photography collection of the Louisiana State Museum in New Orleans was the focus of a “Heart of Louisiana” series feature that aired last week on the news programs of WVUE-Fox8, the Crescent City’s Fox Network affiliate. The video is shown above. The television news segment features NOPA… Read More »LA State Museum photographs focus of WVUE-Fox8 feature

Work focuses on threatened SE Louisiana wetlands communities    Dallas-based photographer Kael Alford has been named as recipient of the Michael P. Smith Fund for Documentary Photography‘s 2012 Grant recipient, for work documenting the destruction of Southeast Louisiana’s wetlands and the concurrent destruction of coastal communities and their ways of life and culture. The fund,… Read More »Dallas-based Kael Alford named 2012 MPS Fund grant winner

OffBeat, a monthly publication that focuses on New Orleans and Louisiana music and culture, is looking for music and food-related photographs for its July 2012 edition. Submissions featuring the following are sought as soon as possible: Live performance shots of the Original Pinettes Brass Band Photographs of Helen Gillet (not necessarily performance shots) from the last three… Read More »OffBeat seeking photographs for upcoming July 2012 edition