PhotoNOLA covers 70 exhibitions
Gambit Weekly
by Jake Clapp
PhotoNOLA covers 70 exhibitions in its 2019 festival Dec. 11-14
Seventy exhibitions, along with workshops and other special events, fall under PhotoNOLA’s broad umbrella this year. Now in its 14th year, PhotoNOLA 2019, produced by the New Orleans Photo Alliance, takes place Wednesday, Dec. 11, through Saturday, Dec. 14, at local galleries, museums and alternative spaces.
It’s a wide celebration of art and documentary photography, mixing shows of artists on a national platform — Mickalene Thomas (her “Femmes Noires” is on display at the Contemporary Arts Center); William Christenberry (“Memory is a Strange Bell” at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art); and LaToya Ruby Frazier (“Flint is Family” at Newcomb Art Museum) — with the work of those based in south Louisiana.
Some exhibitions have an international focus, such as “Crisis of Now: Contemporary Asian Photography Part II,” featuring work by three Taiwanese photographers, at UNO’s St. Claude Gallery; and “Mama Temos/Elephant Mothers,” Meryt Harding’s solo show of images from Kenya, at Sullivan Gallery.
And there’s the intensely personal to New Orleans: Steven Forster’s “40 Years Finale/Encore,” a perspective of the photographer’s work from the mid 1970s to today, at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Gallery; Thomas Cole’s “Love at First Sight: The Soul of a City” at the Jazz & Heritage Center Helis Gallery; and Donald Maginnis’ photos of New Orleans’ Vietnamese community, on display at Pho Noi Viet Restaurant on Magazine Street.
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