New Orleans in Photographs, curated by New Orleans photographer Frank Relle, comprises 1100 photographs depicting the culture of New Orleans and southeast Louisiana: from the intimate to the public, the everyday to the celebratory, and the informal to the grand. New Orleans in Photographs includes 100 large, framed images from fine art photographers, cultural documentarians, and photojournalists, surrounded by 1,000 images culled from social media.
Sponsored by the U. S. Embassy in Moscow, New Orleans in Photographs is a cultural exchange intended to showcase a renowned American city, one known world-wide for its music and food, but one that also came to international attention through the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Relle curated a set of images to broadly introduce a Russian audience to the layered culture of the region, through the formal lenses of 60 professionals and the intimate perspectives of 161 social media photographers.
EXHIBITION
New Orleans in Photography
May 17 – June 12, 2014
Multimedia Art Museum Moscow
Ostozhenka, 16
Moscow, Russia
