I didn’t mean to get emotional. New Orleans documentary photography

I didn’t mean to get emotional. That, was John and Lisa… A look at some of my New Orleans documentary photography work. I also discuss sequencing, and the power of the 24mm lens for storytelling.

Down and Out on Bourbon Street.

For tomorrow we die…

This is an image from my upcoming issue of Gravis Magazine: New Orleans, My Feral City -“For Tomorrow We Die!” Gravis Magazine – Documenting the Human Experience -David Bowie’s second line celebration.

Looking for opposites

Looking for opposites. Love and Hate. Here we have a dog fight in the French Quarter while two lovers remain in their own world!

Something unusual is about to happen

In the French Quarter, if you hang around long enough, something unusual is bound to happen!

Gesture and expression

Gesture and expression form a primitive and timeless language. Buskers, New Orleans

Long gone

This building used to be located in New Orleans, and was photographed untold numbers of times through the years. I am pleased that I took the time to snap this capture before the building was destroyed.

Exploring foreign worlds

Documentary photography is all about entering new and foreign worlds. I spent several years documenting the people of New Orleans. There is quite a bit that I could say about this photograph… I could tell you about the death mask…