“In New Orleans, culture doesn’t come down from on high, it bubbles up from the streets.”
—Ellis Marsallis
Marching Down Gravier Street
Clarise Quintero
With Mardi Gras over and the second lines on hold, New Orleans marches on in defense of Black life.
Fruit Flies
Schroeder Barteaux
A sudden eruption dislodges a parasite from its host, but for how long?
If I Could Just See the Levee from My Backyard…
Anahi Molina
“I would be calm all the time, if I could just see that hill, get to the river in a few steps.”
Sheltered in Place
Jeremy Trager
“In these photos, I tried to capture the essence of that arc in silent moments—the traces of life left behind in empty places.”
Some Kind of Magic
Deja Groomes
“The lingering aura of that last Mardi Gras reminded me why New Orleans has always been fictionalized as a place with its own mystique; somehow more authentic than other American cities.”
from the line snaking around costco on a Saturday after a thunderstorm
Ally Noyes
“i put on earrings for this”
Memories of Henrietta Butler, Formerly Enslaved
Henrietta Butler
On Juneteenth, remembering the history of slavery through the words of Henrietta Butler, formerly enslaved.
Uncomfortable Silences
Chapelle Johnson
“I see myself as a little girl at Sunday school. There’s a boy sobbing uncontrollably. Another boy had informed him of the inevitability of death. ‘We all die.’ He says. ‘Duh.’”
Cottonwood vs. The Hunters
Leopoldo Tablante
“I suspect that, in their minds, dogs were no different than men, particularly “bad-ass” men. In both cases, they seemed to believe that a little fight might just be the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”
The Silence After a Storm
John Biguenet
“First thing they say, the ones rode out the storm, the ones trapped on their roofs three, four days after the levees collapsed, waiting for the United States to arrive don’t come till the end of the week, first thing they tell you, ‘It was silent, man. Silent like you never heard before.’”