CURRENTS 2022 SHOWCASING THE WORKS OF NEW ORLEANS PHOTO ALLIANCE MEMBERS

Featured image: Kim Llerena, Route 90 West, Texas (Blockbuster) (2020), 8″ x 10”, archival pigment print

December 9, 2022

CURRENTS is an annual exhibition that highlights the diverse photographic work being created by New Orleans Photo Alliance members. It is a showcase exhibition designed to give an overview of contemporary photographic practices and projects. The exhibition will open in December at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, in conjunction with PhotoNOLA. CURRENTS 2022 is curated by Phillip March Jones, a curator, artist, and writer based in New York City. In 2020, he founded MARCH, a public benefit corporation and gallery located in Manhattan’s East Village neighborhood dedicated to amplifying the voices of under-recognized artists.

PHOTOGRAPHERS FEATURED IN CURRENTS 2022

JEREMIAH ARIAZ ANN BENHAM KOERNER SUSAN KAUFER CAREY STEPHANIE DOWDA DEMER AARON HARDIN WILL JACKS CASEY JOINER DANIEL KARIKO ERIC KUNSMAN KIM LLERENA

Stephanie Dowda DeMer, “Sandbag Conjure 03,” 2021, 8″ x 10″, gelatin silver print

Susan Kaufer Carey, “Peaces Of Me,” 2020 11″ x 14″, archival pigment print

Ann Benham Koerner, “Terracotta pyramid,” 2022. 10″ x 8″, Leica m10 monochrom

Jeremiah Ariaz “First Amendment Freedoms, Emporia Gazette,” 2022, 16″ x 20”, archival pigment print

Aaron Hardin, “Blinds,” 2018, 16″ x 20″, c-print

Will Jacks, “Two Cents in the Waiting Room,” 2018, 6″ x 9″, archival pigment print

Casey Joiner, “Chairs,” 2022, 13″ x 19″, 120 film

Eric Kunsman, “Grape and Orange Mini Mart, 111 Orange Street, Rochester, NY 14611- 2019” 2019, 20″ x 20″, archival pigment print

Daniel Kariko, “Fallen Fence, After Hurricane Ida, Graveyard, HWY 1, Louisiana,” 2022

ABOUT THE CURATOR

Phillip March Jones is an artist, writer, and curator based in New York City. In 2009, Jones founded Institute 193, a nonprofit contemporary art space and publisher in Lexington, Kentucky. He later served as the inaugural director of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation in Atlanta, and as director of the Galerie Christian Berst (New York/Paris) and the Andrew Edlin Gallery in New York. Jones currently serves as Institute 193’s Curator-at-Large and oversees Institute 193 (1B), a project space in Manhattan’s East Village that organizes collaborative exhibitions with cultural institutions from the Southern United States. Jones’ photographs and writings have been published by the Jargon Society, Vanderbilt University Press, Dust-to-Digital and Poem 88, among others.

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Featured image: Kim Llerena, Route 90 West, Texas (Blockbuster) (2020), 8″ x 10”, archival pigment print

PHOTOGRAPHERS FEATURED IN CURRENTS 2022

ABOUT THE CURATOR

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