Local favorite Sthaddeus “Polo Silk” Terrell has been a fixture of the New Orleans rap scene as its #1 party/event photographer—as well as a fan—since the ‘80s. I’d...
“As a photographer I find myself doing something different every day and I never know what each week is going to bring. From experiencing Mardi Gras day on Chris Owens’...
“I took my first live band photo a little over 30 years ago. I started out using shitty point-and-shoot film cameras. One of them was so shattered, after noticing that I...
“I probably took my first photo at the age of 7. I had one of those long, skinny film cameras (I think it was pink) that made a wheezing sound when you turned the flash on....
“I shoot everything for work. Work is life, love, and service. It’s all the same. My favorite forms to photograph are humans. I shoot to communicate deeper. I love...
“My life has been a steady stream of reinvention while somehow maintaining a strangely familiar baseline— drastic career changes, drastic moves, and drastic depletion of...
“Over the past 20 years, the camera has given me the unique ability to tell a variety of stories about remarkable people in the most unique places and situations. Currently...
“A lot of my photography has been about me trying to reconnect myself back to my city. I was born and raised in New Orleans but I’ve only just recently begun to realize...
“Above is a shot of Dr. Marie Butcher getting made up the morning of Fat Tuesday at her mother’s Bywater home. Her crew went to Mardi Gras as a deck of cards from Alice...
“Whether people stay or people go, photographs hold on to a moment that was beautiful, and between just you and them,...
“(These images were taken in the fall of 2005) Everything was the color of mud by daylight. A riverine stench hung in the air. Waterlines seemed etched into every house,...
I was sitting on my couch when it happened. It was a normal weeknight and we had just finished a dinner of spaghetti with my boyfriend’s amazing homemade red sauce. I was in a...
