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Gallery
Discipline: Photography
Curators: Owen Murphy and Victoria Ryan | 
| BRIAN GAUVIN is a photojournalist, covering stories of people in relation to their environment. Over the past 12 years, interest and circumstance have combined to lead Gauvin to photograph the commercial marine industry and the world of travel. The result is a considerable body of work documenting the commercial fishing and workboat industries, and travel photographs from around the world. Current long term projects include the Gulf Coast Intracoastal Waterway, Life on the Mississippi, the New Orleans Preservation Resource Center project, Rebuilding Together, and restoring houses with historic architectural integrity.
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| CHERYL GERBER is a freelance journalist and documentary photographer working in New Orleans, where she was born. She began her journalism career as a reporter but switched to photography after spending a year working in Honduras. In 1992, she began working for Michael P. Smith, who nurtured her desire to document daily life in New Orleans. Today, she is a regular contributor to The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, the Associated Press, New Orleans Magazine, and has been a staff photographer for Gambit Weekly since 1996. During the past two decades, Cheryl has won several awards from the New Orleans Press Club for her work on social issues and news photography.
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| DAVID RAE MORRIS was born in Oxford, England and grew up in New York City. He had an early interest in photography and attended night classes at the International Center of Photography. He holds a B.A. from Hampshire College in Amherst, MA, in 1982, and an M.A. in journalism and mass communication from the University of Minnesota in 1991. His photographs have been published in such diverse publications as Time Magazine, Newsweek, USA Today, and the New York Times, to the Utne Reader, The Nation, and the Angolite, the official magazine of the Louisiana State Penitentary at Angola, and Love And Rage, a national anarchist weekly. He had also served as a contributing photographer for the Associated Press, Reuters, and Agency France Presse, and the European Pressphoto Agency. In 1999, Morris collaborated with his late father, the noted author Willie Morris, on My Mississippi, a collection of essays and photographs about the state of Mississippi and her people, published by the University Press of Mississippi. His photographs are in many private and public collections including in the permanent collections of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and the Louisiana State Museum in New Orleans, and Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson. His exhibit, “Do You Know What it Means? The Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina,” opened in November 2005, ten weeks after Katrina made landfall.
|  | 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.
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| THOMAS NEFF, photographer and professor of art at Louisiana State University, was born in 1948 in Los Angeles. In 1972, he studied photography under the mentorship of Herb Quick at UC, Riverside. Quick, who was influenced by the techniques of Edward Weston and Ansel Adams, taught Neff the Zone System, as well as large format photography, but more importantly he taught him the philosophies of many of the great masters. Upon receiving a BA degree from UCR, Neff earned an MFA degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder. While continuing to photograph in Colorado, Neff developed a body of work in Louisiana, as well as abroad. This most recent work stems from his personal experiences and relationships with nearly two hundred people in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Gulf South. Neff has photographed and compiled the stories of the resolute people who survived the onslaught of the storm, the flooding of their homes, and the city they hold so dear. His first book titled: Holding Out and Hanging On: Surviving Hurricane Katrina, was released in December 2007, by The University of Missouri Press.
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| SAMUEL PORTERA was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and raised in the marshes and bayous of St Bernard Parish. Portera, a self-taught photographer, discovered his passion for photography fifteen years ago and since that time he rarely leaves home without his camera. Most well known for series of post-Katrina landscapes, which were self published in After The Water, his latest series, Deadwater, focuses on Louisiana's wetlands and its unique beauty. Portera uses a vintage Brass lens to lend a sense antiquity to his photographs. This works serves as a historical and harmonious impression of a landscape that he believes to be threatened. Portera's work has appeared in Photography magazines, including B&W Magazine and Shots, and has been featured in the following exhibitions in New Orleans in the last two years: Louisiana Vision/Re-Vision, Rituals and Revelries and Toy Stories. | 
| VICTORIA RYAN has pursued the life of a professional photographer for the past 28 years. She has been the director of the photography program at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts for the past 16 years. She has also taught at Loyola University and Dillard University. Victoria’s fine art work is represented by John Stevenson Gallery, New York; Kathleen Ewing, Washington, DC; George Billis, Los Angeles; and Samantha Richter, Nashville. She believes the camera is a wonderful tool that allows her to expand reality by stripping away superfluous details, thus revealing information that unveils the secret of the moment. She looks at things and tries to understand what they can teach us and what insights she can extract to share their beauty and mystery. Victoria’s work as been published in many formats and in many collections worldwide.
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| JENNIFER SHAW is a fine art photographer who lives and works in New Orleans, Louisiana. She started taking pictures at the age of eight and enrolled in her first darkroom course when she was fifteen. From that point forward she immersed herself in the medium, and went on to study it at the Rhode Island School of Design, earning a BFA in Photography in 1994. Curiosity led her to New Orleans, where she has been pursuing her art ever since. She currently teaches photography part time at the Louise S. McGehee School and works as a freelance photographer, with a concentration on her personal work and custom portraiture. Jennifer’s photographs have been featured in B&W Magazine, Shots, Light Leaks Magazine and The Sun. Her work has been exhibited internationally, and is held in both private and public collections, including the Huntsville Museum of Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art.
| | MARK SINDLER, born and raised in New York, is a documentarian and media arts educator who first came to New Orleans to study anthropology at Tulane University. With grant awards from the Louisiana State Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts, Sindler spent seven years in Versailles, documenting the growth of one of America's largest enclaves of Vietnamese, as well as recording life in other Vietnamese and Laotian settlements across Louisiana. Images from this project now reside in the permanent collections of the New Orleans Museum of Art, Jean Lafitte National Park, Louisiana State University, and Southeastern Louisiana University. Traveling throughout the state, Sindler has documented the landscape, cultural heritage, and living traditions that make Louisiana unique, and in 2005, he transferred to the Louisiana State Museum, for which he has been chronicling the devastating effects of hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Sindler's photos have been featured in the books New Orleans: An Epic City, Stir It Up: A History of Cajun Cuisine, and Katrina Exposed, and they have been published in periodicals including New Orleans Magazine, Louisiana Life, The Times-Picayune, Cultural Vistas, The Miami Herald, and American Heritage. Recent exhibits include The Music Show, Katrina Exposed, and Vision/Revision: Louisiana Photography 2006.
|  | A.J. SISCO is a New Orleans based photographer with over twenty years experience photographing subjects and events in the New Orleans area. He has deep roots in New Orleans, where he grew up, and a network of contacts in the music, sports and law enforcement communities. He is well known in local media and government circles. His photographs have appeared in USA Today, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The London Times, The Miami Herald, The Houston Chronicle, The New Orleans Times-Picayune, The Baton Rouge Morning Advocate, The Biloxi Sun-Herald and other regional and national publications. Magazine credits include Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, Maclean's of Canada, Book Magazine, The London Sunday Times, Louisiana Life, Black Issues in Higher Education, and New Orleans Magazine. His wire service clients include United Press International and Reuters. Among the events he has covered are hurricanes, floods, fires, papal and presidential visits, Mardi Gras and the Jazz Festival, the GOP Convention, New Orleans Saints football, the Sugar Bowl, two Final Fours, four Super Bowls.
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| LORI WASELCHUK is a freelance photojournalist and documentary photographer living in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Waselchuk’s work has been published in Time, Life, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, National Journal, USA Today, The Chicago Tribune, The Independent, and The Times (London), Der Spiegel, Liberation. In 2004, Waselchuk won the Southern African Gender and Media award for her coverage of war-related sexual violence in Liberia. In 1998, Waselchuk was a finalist in the Alfred Eisenstaedt Awards for Magazine Photography.
|  | DONN YOUNG, as the official photographer for the Port of New Orleans, returned to the city shortly after Hurricane Katrina. Thus began what has turned into a two-year documentation of the storm's effect. Donn recognized that he couldn't tell the story of the storm alone, and began developing the "40 Days and 40 Nights" exhibit to bring together artists who could tell the story from a multidisciplinary perspective.
His work has appeared in nine books and many national publications including Time, Newsweek, The Washington Post, The New York Times, and USA Today. He has earned numerous awards including Photographer of the Year from the New England Press Assocation, the Louisiana Press Association, and the Press Club of New Orleans. His work has exhibited worldwide and was recently included in "Visions of New Orleans" at the Ministry of Culture, Saint-Honore, in Paris.
Donn lost his home and studio in Katrina, including a 35-year archive of more than 1.35 million images. The Hill Memorial Library Special Collections at Louisiana State University and the records management association ARMA have salvaged and restored thousands of images. In 2007, the Louisiana State Archives established the Donn Young Collection -- making him the first living photographer of his generation to be so honored.
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