Ogden Museum of Southern Art
925 Camp St
New Orleans, LA 70130
504.539.9650 | HOURS
925 Camp St
New Orleans, LA 70130
504.539.9650 | HOURS
Matthew Reamer, The Desert Disappears 6, 2022, 16 x 20 inches, Archival Digital Print
Photographers featured in CURRENTS 2023:
Renee Allie | Filippo Barbero | Lila Barth | Marisa Chafetz | Hadley Chittum | Jasmine Clarke | Chance DeVille | Matt Eich | Manuel Elias | Benry Fauna | Taylor Galloway | Andrea Orejarena | Matthew Reamer | Darby Routtenberg | Corey Saltaformaggio | Maggie Shannon | Chad Unger | Michael Young | Daniella Zalcman
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. CURRENTS 2023: NOPA Members Showcase is curated by Jacob Moscovitch, photo editor at The New York Times, and features 19 photographers.
learn more about photonolaJacob Moscovitch (he/him) is a queer first-generation Israeli-American photo editor at New York Magazine. He has worked on a range of editing projects for the Culture, Style and Travel desks. Previously, he was a photo editor at the Los Angeles Times where he specialized in celebrity portraiture.
Before becoming an editor, Jacob was a documentary and portrait photographer exploring themes of identity, youth, family and the LGBTQ+ community. His photography has been recognized by College Photographer of the Year and Picture of the Year International, and he was named Student Photographer of the Year by the White House News Photographers Association.
Jacob holds a Bachelor’s in Journalism from the Missouri School of Journalism and also studied at the Danish School of Media and Journalism.
JUROR STATEMENT
Featuring work by 19 artists, CURRENTS 2023 takes on intimacy as a lifeline. Through a multiplicity of photographic forms, interweaving documentary and fictional narratives, these artists embody photography as an act of love, embrace and resilience.
This exhibition celebrates photographs that expand the traditional confines of classical photography into wide- ranging perspectives, expressed in a variety of materials and conceptual frameworks. Each of the artists in this exhibition has the courage to make the personal public and to relate the personal to a collective.
This diverse array of works investigates new forms of photography. Benry Fauna and Darby Routtenberg complicate the politics of the gaze through their radical vulnerability in their self portraits. Jasmine Clark portrays Black fatherhood, piecing together fragments of memory and spinning family history into mythology. Andrea Orejarena and Caleb Stein trace the relationship between the American psyche and the U.S. landscape, as an act of placemaking in their adopted home. Michael Young collages archival materials from his youth, in an ode to his own sexuality, queer culture and its histories.
To make a photograph is to transcribe experience and share it. In all of these cases, there’s an understanding that photography is an internal rhythm — a way of loving, questioning and exploring.
