Today marks the 19th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina making landfall in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. Every few years, I put out a passionate inquiry asking the question, who was this Katrina victim? I firmly believe, after all these years, it’s worth … Read More
Periodical Cicadas features the sounds of millions of periodical cicadas singing en masse. In this library, there are extended drones and screeches, up-close wing-fluttering pass bys and multiple pharaoh (mating) calls. Two broods, XXII and V, were recorded in 2014 and 2016 respectively. … Read More
Today’s news of the likely scrapping of the American Queen riverboat got my attention this morning. As a newspaper photographer at The Advocate in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, I was on and around paddle boats quite often. … Read More
In September 2002, using a couple of Leica M6s and rolls of chrome film, I spent an afternoon documenting inmates from the Louisiana State Penitentiary picking row upon row of cotton near Angola, Louisiana. The images below are a result:
Back in the early 2000s, I went on a road trip for The Advocate newspaper with my colleague and good friend Chris Frink. We were headed up to East Carroll Parish, in the northeast corner of Louisiana along the Mississippi … Read More