Curatorial Premise: Inspired by Brassaï’s Paris de Nuit photo collection from 1933, this call invited photographers to explore and unveil New Orleans after dark. Like Brassaï’s Paris, the images here transform the ordinary into the ethereal through the transaction of light and dark. Wander where tourists fear to tread. Featured Artists: Jamal Barnes Updesh Bedi Caleb Breaux Taylor Castillo Seth Cook Tenzin Dolker Kristin Fouquet Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee Eli Johnson Leone Julitte Zachary Kanzler Virat Kapur Kevin Lajoie Ryan Lips Denise Lyons Donald Maginnis Eli Mergel CB Merritt Darrell Miller David Rae Morris Leo Morningstar Joliet Morrill Daniel Newton Dung Nguyen Julien Orr Kenneth Pape Stacey Pearson Jared Ragland Chad Schneider Alexandra Silverthorne Carlos Talbott Trenity Thomas Karl Turner Joseph Walton Remy Williams
On June 24, 1943, Dimitri Fouquet’s life began as Wayne Fouquet on a wooden kitchen table in Algiers Point on the West Bank of the murky Mississippi River. Across the river, Algiers shares the same thick humid air in which New Orleans Voodoo folklore was born through whispered stories about Baron Samedi, the original Dr. John, and Marie Laveau; two spirits Fouquet would capture in oil. “The Algiers Ferry” by Dimitri Fouquet “The Algiers Courthouse” by Dimitri Fouquet "Holy Name of Mary Church and Rectory" by Dimitri Fouquet He grew up in “The Point” with his cousin Ronnie Barosse, who would later be known as Ronnie Baron, the well-known New Orleans pianist and singer. According to Dimitri, the boys would strip down on the levee to swim in the Mississippi River so their mothers wouldn’t catch them with wet clothes. As wild teens, they would sneak into the church, Holy Name of Mary, and light their cigarettes and joints off of the candles for the poor....