Fat Tuesday Salon: A Group Photography Exhibit

I'm thrilled to be participating in this group photography exhibition with so many talented local photographers! Mardi Gras is the most magical day and this exhibit aims to recreate some of that wonder. Six of my photographs will be on display. Many thanks to Sara Essex Bradley for the concept and including me. Hoping to see lots of friends there for the opening tonight!

Staple Goods Gallery: 1340 St. Roch Ave.

New Orleans, LA, 70117

From Sara Essex Bradley:

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I am pleased to announce a group showing at Staple Goods gallery. This is an amazing gathering of 18 extremely talented, professional local shooters. Photographers are rarely seen in the wild in large groups; this will be an occasion to meet so many of them in one place, and have their work side by side.

The images that will be displayed were all taken on a Mardi Gras day, downtown below Canal. The works will be hung in a salon style – a riot of imagery, in color and black and white. Grouped tightly together, the show aims to recreate that quasi off-balance claustrophobic feel of pressing through the crowds in front of Mimi’s in the Marigny, or trying to navigate a Bourbon St crossing when you look up and see a crowded balcony with the sky full of beads and bubbles.

This is a great opportunity, especially for the visitor who has never experienced the other side of Mardi Gras, away from the super krewes and Carnival royalty, to see the scene from the streets as celebrated by locals and the occasional creative tourists!

Exhibit to include works by:

Renee Allie

Shannon Atkinson

Adrienne Battistella

Thom Bennett

Sara Essex Bradley

Shannon Brinkman

Denny Culbert

Paulo Steven Diniz

Kristin Fouquet

Chris Granger

Jackson Hill

Jacqueline Marque

Barry Muniz

Rick Olivier

Tomas Orihuela

Ryan Hodgson-Rigsbee

Jonathan Treviessa

Eugenia Uhl

The opening reception will be Friday February 7, at 6pm. Drinks will be flowing, and I invite people to leave detritus on the floor of the gallery – broken beads, empty cups, old cell phones, whatever! – to further enhance the Fat Tuesday installation.

photo by Errol Fouquet

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