Presented by Louisiana Secretary of State Jay Dardenne and staff
A Collaboration of New Orleans artists, the Louisiana State Archives, and
Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
OWEN MURPHY |Curator of Visual Arts |
 Owen Murphy is a freelance documentary photographer, born and raised in New Orleans. After living in New York City and San Francisco, Murphy returned to New Orleans in the mid-1970s to begin his photographic career. He helped create the city's first photographic cooperative, The Photo Exchange, and embarked on a lifetime of exhibiting personal work, teaching, and establishing a professional business. In November 2006, he became president of the New Orleans Photo Alliance, which was developed post-Katrina and which promotes the work of the New Orleans photography community. He has earned a Photography Fellowship from the State of Louisiana and grants from the Joe and Dorsett Brown Foundation, the New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center Katrina Fund, and the State of Louisiana Cultural Initiative. His work is in numerous private collections as well as those at the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Louisiana State Museum, the Roger Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and the Historic New Orleans Collection. |
Exhibiting through September at the Louisiana State Archives, Baton Rouge
Opening August 2008
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