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Chris and Martha
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entry description
I lived in New Orleans from 1972 to the end of 1975. I'd only recently made the transition from painting to photography, having apprenticed with the Mexican photographer, Rodrigo Moya - and New Orleans was a wonderful place to practice my new art. Chris and Martha were among a circle of friends who encouraged me to come visit to take pictures of their daily lives. This series of portraits are about beauty, fantasy and remnants of the romanticism of the old south.about the photographer
I'm an art and documentary photographer who works on long term personal projects about identity, memory, personal history, displacement and war. I travel frequently to Eastern Europe and Mexico exploring a terrain in earlier stages of my life. My work has been awarded grants, fellowships and prizes from Art Matters, Inc., Aaron Siskind Foundation, Light Work, Arts Link, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Austrian Ministry of Culture, New York Foundation for the Arts, the Society for Photographic Education and Px3, among others. My photographs have been exhibited and published nationally and internationally.back to gallery