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New Orleans based photographer and member of Southerly Gold, Akasha Rabut has been selected to be a part of the Southern Open. The Southern Open is a competitive juried exhibition featuring artists from the 5 southern states of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida.
The show opens May 12th and runs until November 30th at the ACA in Lafayette, Louisiana.
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New Orleans own Frank Relle is currently working with his friend and former Saint, Steve Gleason on a project entitled Inside-Out, celebrating the faces of New Orleans and also calling attention to Team Gleason, which raises awareness about ALS.
The photos have been pasted around the Bayou St. John area, in time for JazzFest. Here are some behind the scenes images, if you can’t make it to the area.
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The prolific photographer Garry Winogrand, who died in 1984 at 56 in Mexico, left behind thousands of unseen pictures. Among them are these photographs, discovered last year in his archive at the Center for Creative Photography in Tucson. Only one from the convention is known to have been published: the picture of Kennedy above, accepting the nomination and asking the party for ‘‘your help and your hand and your voice.’’
See more images from this archive in the New York Times.
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Dialogue with Dutch photographer Sanne Peper discussing her present body of work Where the Crow Flies, a photographic journey in search for Southern Gothic. (This is an installment from Southerly Gold’s Interview Series).
What initially drew you to the South? When you write of Southern Gothic and Romanticism,what does that mean to you, and how did you find that on your journey?
The novels of Flannery O’Connor, Carson McCullers, Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner,Truman Capote, musicians such as Jim White, Johnny Dowd, David Eugene Edwards, The Handsome Family, Alan Lomax, Appalachian fiddle players, The Dead Confederate, Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers, Vic Chesnutt, and all the black musicians, and the BBC documentary Searching for the Wrong Eyed Jesus by Andrew Douglas. I found the Southern Gothic in the people, the juxtaposition of good and evil, of hardship and resilience, the nostalgia, the omnipresent religion, and also in the fact that everybody wanted to talk to me, although I’m this slightly weird black-clad middle aged lady. You know. But in the South people are curious, and that’s a virtue. But I found them also a little childlike. Very human if you understand what I mean. In Western Europe, as in NYC, we tend to act slick and sophisticated, and that’s mostly about form, appearances. I should know, I’m like that myself! Somehow the Southerners remind me of personages from literature, fiction. Bigger than life.
You can read the full interview here.
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Michel Varisco is a New Orleans artist who uses photography and site specific installation to explore themes of loss and regeneration. Her current project Shifting “is a series that observes the dynamic movement of our lands over the course of a short but powerful geologic timeline and explores the consequences of human altercations to those lands and waters.” She is currently in the final three days of her fundraiser to help pay for the exhibit book and only has 10% more to go to reach her goal. Please consider donating here.
