Nightscapes
I began making photographs in 2004, when I set out to explore New Orleans’ residential architecture, the diversity of which reflects the variety of the city’s residents and ways of life. My early architectural photographs became the Nightscapes series.
Annunciation
Richelieu
Thalia
Saratoga
Constance
Carondolet
night drives
Driving around the city at night, using the windshield of my grandmother’s Lincoln as a viewfinder, I created images like “Annunciation,” which shows a modest shotgun house cloaked in shadows.
Katrina
What started as a way to better understand the flow of the city’s neighborhoods became a record of upheaval when in 2005, I continued working in the unlit city to capture the devastation following Hurricane Katrina.
Laussat
Clouet
Derbigny
Tupelo
Baudin
Roffignac
Waiting to recover
From 2007 through 2010, I documented the ongoing recovery and the city on the cusp of change.
Rousselin
Solomon
Monticello
Salcedo
Mithra
Kerlerec
southern gothic
At times throughout this period some city scenes look like back drops in a Southern Gothic novel.
Brainard
Celeste
Chestnut
Dubreuil
Alma
Dupre
Galvez
Ferdinand
Hampson
Laharpe
Leona
Livaudais
Mirabeau
Pierce
Polymnia
Rampart
Rocheblave
Rousselin
Villere
Lapeyrouse
Melpomene
Clio