6 Shooter Series
Ongoing series with New Orleans Photography Alliance where photographers will discuss their process, influence, inspiration and work.
“Six Shooters” and will be a moderated panel discussion scheduled for Wednesday, March 18 from 6 – 8 p.m. at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
The premise of this program is to have six photographers from various disciplines answer questions from the moderator about their creative processes, their inspirations (i.e. music, literature, other visual arts) and their intentions concerning their work. This program is being co-sponsored by the local chapters of AIGA and ASMP and we are hoping that it will be a way for our members to meet other local creatives as well as a way to share your work, drive, and creativity with a broad audience.
Wednesday, March 18th
New Orleans Museum of Art
The six disciplines will be Fine Art, Documentary, Commercial, Editorial, Educational, and Photojournalism.
The photographers speaking will be:
Tony Lewis (Moderator), Curator of Visual Arts, Louisiana State Museums:
Tony Lewis completed graduate studies in the history of art, with a specialization in nineteenth-century American art, at Northwestern University. He developed an interest in the history of photography during a graduate seminar with Joel Snyder at the University of Chicago. Before joining LSM in January 2007, he served in the education department of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., as Curator of Paintings at the Mariners’ Museum in Newport News, Virginia, as Assistant Director of the Middlebury College Museum of Art, and as an Assistant Professor of Art History and Museum Studies at the University of Southern Mississippi in
Hattiesburg. Dr. Lewis has developed over forty exhibitions, including a traveling exhibition of Herbert Randall’s 1964 Civil Rights photographs and an exhibit of Rudy Burkhardt’s photographs of New York School artists. He recently developing a traveling exhibition at Kennesaw University of Belgian artist Jan Yoors’ photographs of European Roma before WWII and is completing a book on Robert Tebbs’ photographs of Louisiana plantations for the LSU Press.
Brady Fontenot (Editorial):
Originally from Lafayette, Louisiana, Brady Fontenot is currently based in New Orleans. He has been shooting editorial assignments since 2006 and is currently represented by Redux Pictures. Brady’s clients include Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, Vibe, Nike, Inc, XXL, and ESPN among others.
Leslie Parr (Educational):
Leslie Parr is an associate professor in the School of Mass Communication at Loyola University New Orleans. She teaches courses in photojournalism, documentary photography and the history of photography. This year she is organizing a Center for the Study of New Orleans at Loyola and continuing her long-time documentation of street culture in the city.
Michael Terranova (Commercial):
Michael Terranova started his freelance photography buisiness in New Orleans in 1981.The majority of his work has come from local and national advertising agencys,design studios and editorial assignments.His client list has grown to include Maxwell House/Nextell /IBM/GM and Disney to name a few.Published Editorial assignments have included Bon Apetite, Food & Wine, Elle decor, House Beautiful, National Geographic Traveler and Wine Spectator Magazine.Recent book publications include Phillip Colliers Mixing New Orleans,Commanders Palace Wild Side and Tabasco An Illustrated History.
Kathy Anderson (Photojournalism):
The photographic projects of Kathy Anderson have taken her from the Louisiana sugar cane fields to the war zone in Nicaragua. As a Times-Picayune staff photographer since 1981, she has covered a variety of
news events in New Orleans, including the Republican convention, the Pope’s visit, the Super Bowl, a series on race relations in New Orleans, and most recently, the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. Anderson is a member of the National Press Photographers Association and the American Society of Media Photographers. Her work has been honored numerous times in national and regional photographic contests. She was part of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service coverage of Hurricane Katrina. In addition to her newspaper photography, Kathy has completed a book about Holy Cross School in New Orleans and participated in the photo books ”America 24/7,” “Louisiana 24/7,” ”A Day in the Life of the American Woman” and The Times-Picayune’s “Katrina: The Ruin and Recovery of New Orleans.” Anderson was born in Milwaukee and is a graduate of Indiana University. She came to The Times- Picayune after interning at the Louisville
Courier-Journal. She lives in New Orleans with her husband and two daughters.
Jennifer Shaw (Fine Art):
Jennifer Shaw is a fine art photographer who lives and works in New Orleans, Louisiana. She started taking pictures at the age of eight and enrolled in her first darkroom course when she was fifteen. From that point forward she immersed herself in the medium, and went on to study it at the Rhode Island School of Design, earning a BFA in Photography in 1994. Curiosity led her to New Orleans, where she has been pursuing her art ever since. She currently teaches photography part time at the Louise S. McGehee School and works as a freelance photographer, with a concentration on her personal work and custom portraiture.
Jennifer’s photographs have been featured in B&W Magazine, Shots, Light Leaks Magazine and The Sun. Her work has been exhibited internationally, and is held in both private and public collections, including the Huntsville Museum of Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art.
Jackie Brenner (Documentary):
A fine art documentary photographer, Jackie Brenner studied at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts. Her work has been exhibited in several galleries, including the Leica gallery in New York, is held in numerous private collections, and is included in the permanent collections of the New Orleans Museum of Art, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and Houston’s Museum of Fine Art. She is the author of the seminal book Friday Night Grind, a haunting collection of photographs of dancers, bartenders, and bouncers presenting the underbelly of a Bourbon Street strip club.
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