New Orleans: Where do we go from here? - 2007 Edition
This show is getting a remount! This exhibit will feature a DIFFERENT SELECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHS from my 2005 visit to New Orleans, so there will be something new to see.
From November 5th until December 31st, a selection of the photos from the series New Orleans: where do we go from here? will be exhibited at Cajun Corner (920 Queen Street East in Toronto).
All proceeds from sales of the prints will go towards The Habitat for Humanity Musicians’ Village in New Orleans.
New Orleans: Where do we go from here? A Photo Exhibition in Support of Hurricane Recovery.
In April of this year I spent a week in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans and was amazed and inspired by the beauty that I was surrounded by in a city that had been eighty percent destroyed. There was certainly despair as well, but an overwhelming sense of hope was present. It is that sense of hope that I tried to capture in my photographs.
From September 5th until October 9th, a selection of my photos from the series
New Orleans: where do we go from here? was exhibited at Starbucks at 185 King Street East (at George Street – across from George Brown College, just East of Jarvis) in Toronto.
Prints of all the photos in this series are available for purchase, with one hundred percent of sales going to The Katrina Krewe, a grassroots organization established in November 2005. The Katrina Krewe consists of thousands of local and national volunteers, whose goal is to provide relief in New Orleans from the trash and debris that resulted from Hurricane Katrina along common thoroughfares. The Katrina Krewe is also fostering anti-litter awareness among residents, schools and businesses within the New Orleans area through various public service programs and activities. You can learn more at their
websiteThe basic clean up might be done but the work to rebuild and educate continues. A year later they still need our help.
The select photos from the series being shown at Starbucks are below. If you have any interest in ordering or seeing the full portfolio, please contact me directly at misstraceynolan@hotmail.com.
(Note - to see a larger version of the photo, just click on it).
Terence Triptych - Trumpet player, film composer (most notably on Spike Lee's films) and New Orleans native Terence Blanchard plays at "Snug Harbor" in April, 2006
Preservation Hall, Detail - April, 2006.
Maison Bourbon - on Bourbon Street, April, 2006.
The Stage is Set - for the reopening of Preservation Hall, April, 2006.
I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate - at the reopening of Preservation Hall, April, 2006.
"The Saints" - at the reopening of Preservation Hall, April, 2006.
Sax Player - at the reopening of Preservation Hall, April, 2006.
Louis Armstrong National Park - even his statue looms larger than life...
Ace - at a gravesite in the South end of town.
French Quarter - a home in the French Quarter, April, 2006.
Cafe du Monde - workers at the venerable Cafe du Monde enjoy a lunch break, April, 2006.
Nothing Can Stop Spring - on Canal Street, April, 2006.
