Join us for a creative exploration of blending photography and collage at our event, Pictures at the Intersection of Photography & Collage
Saturday, May 10 ยท 3 – 6pm CDT
SLIDESHOW & TALK
Pictures at the Intersection of Photography & Collage
Saturday, 10 May 2025, 3PM
For the past 18 months, Kolaj Institute has investigated the intersection of photography and collage through a series of exhibitions and artist residencies in partnership with the New Orleans Photo Alliance. This research has been guided by the idea, “The mediums of collage and photography are bound together in an ongoing dialogue. The photographer makes pictures of the world. The collagist remixes those pictures to tell a story about the world we live in. What happens when the photographer begins collaging their own work? What happens when the collage artist picks up the camera?” We found artists engaged in a variety of techniques and approaches: collage as process; making art with family archives and found photographs; using alternative processes like cyanotypes and Gelli print transfers; and challenging how we think about images in a world flooded with them. In doing this, the artists invited viewers to consider questions of identity and gender; family and memory; the materiality of photography; and history and artist process. During this slideshow and talk, Kolaj Institute Director Ric Kasini Kadour will share his findings and speak about the role of photography and collage in contemporary art. He will also speak about how Kolaj Institute’s ongoing partnership with the New Orleans Photo Alliance will unfold in the coming year.
This event takes place on World Collage Day, an annual, international celebration of collage on the Second Saturday of May. World Collage Day is about artists connecting across borders against a global context of entrenchment and separation. World Collage Day is about an art medium that excels at bringing different things together to create new forms and new ways of thinking.
