PhotoNOLA, New Orleans, LA (2026)

04/19/2026

🗓️ Mark your calendars 🗓️

21st Annual PhotoNOLA Festival: December 2-6, 2026.

We are looking forward to another four days celebrating photography through community, exhibitions, programs, and portfolio reviews, with both old faces and new in attendance! 🥳

03/13/2026

Hello from Foto Fest! Eli is down in Houston representing The Photo Alliance/ PhotoNOLA ! Say hello if you see him! 🙂
The Foto Fest team plays such a big part in making PhotoNOLA possible, and we are excited to be able to help with their festival now!! We are wishing them another successful fest this year 🥳

01/22/2026

Thank you all for patiently waiting for this update:

We are thrilled to share the winners of the 2nd annual Photobook Prize, selected by William Boling of Falline Press! William was impressed by the variety of strong submissions and powerful narratives, and selecting the winners was not an easy task. Thank you to all who submitted!

Congratulations to all the incredible artists and their publishers! We’re especially inspired by the impressive number of self-published winners this year. It’s a powerful reminder that artists can take full creative control and bring their visions to life on their own terms. Keep making those books!

⭐️ Grand Prize
“The Invisible Yoke, Volume IV: We, the Free” by Matt Eich
published by Sturm & Drang, 2024

⭐️ Award of Excellence
“an unfixed pilgrimage “ by Sarah Wintston and Jared Ragland
Self-published, 2024

⭐️ Louisiana Award of Excellence
“In Rooms III” by Brittany Markart
Self-published, 2025

⭐️ Honorable Mentions:
“Thank you for Ruining My Birthday” by Wendy Ploger
Self-published, 2024

“Trembling Earth” by David Walter Banks
published by Bitter Southerner, 2025

“Stronger than the waves crashing on us” by Frank Hamrick
Self-published, 2024

01/12/2026

There's still time to bid online on auction items until February 28! Browse and bid through this link: https://givebutter.com/c/PhotoNOLA/auction/items/1463027

And mark your calander for January 29, 5-8pm for the opening of our next showcase at the NOPA gallery! We will be displaying auction items to view and bid on in person!
****Featured Auction Item ****
Cameron Lartigue
Supermarket Church
35 mm film
18" x 24" × 2"
Artwork for Sale: Yes
$250.00
2024
Double exposure of supermarket and church I encountered May of 2024 in Brazil.
An 18x24" horizontal b/w 35mm film photograph printed on aluminum panel previously exhibited in the New Orleans Photo Alliance show "Deja Vu: Double Exposure"

01/05/2026

Bid on items to support New Orleans Photo Alliance and PhotoNOLA Festival 2026 (PhotoNOLA) support will keep events, programs, exhibitions, and resources at the Photo Alliance Center thriving

Featured auction item : BOOK - SUMMER DAYS STATEN ISLAND - Christine Osinski
Item #1455622

Taken in the "forgotten borough" of Staten Island between 1983 and 1984, the photographs in Christine Osinski’s (born 1948) Summer Days Staten Island create a portrait of working-class culture in an often overlooked section of New York City. Captured on Osinski’s large format 4x5 camera as she wandered the island, her candid portraits of strangers, vernacular architecture and quotidian scenes reveal an invisible landscape within reach of the thriving metropolis of Manhattan. The neighborhoods that Osinski captured are devoid of the skyscrapers, swarms of pedestrians and choking masses of traffic that are a short ferry ride away. Instead, she captures kids riding bikes on open, empty streets, suburban homes with neatly tended yards and the small-town feel of New York’s least populous borough. Accompanying the series of images is an essay by Paul Moakley, Time magazine’s Deputy Director of Photography and Visual Enterprise.

You can bid on this item and or others through this link: https://givebutter.com/c/PhotoNOLA/auction/items/1455622

01/02/2026

Bid on items to support New Orleans Photo Alliance and PhotoNOLA Festival through this link: https://givebutter.com/c/PhotoNOLA/auction/items/1429571

Your support will keep events, programs, exhibitions, and resources at the Photo Alliance Center thriving

Featured auction item : "Vicky West at the Crown and Anchor Inn, Provincetown, MA,
" 1980 - Mariette Pathy Allen
Item #1429571
You can bid on this item and or others through the same link

12/29/2025

Tickets for our annual PhotoNOLA Festival raffle are still available here: https://givebutter.com/c/PhotoNOLA . Raffle tickets are $10 each or 15 for $100, with proceeds supporting our year-round programming.
This year’s raffle features Blooming Man by acclaimed photographer Trenity Thomas . A self-taught artist, Trenity has worked across fashion, lifestyle, editorial, conceptual, sports, and portrait photography. His work has been featured in juried exhibitions including No Dead Artists at Jonathan Ferrara Gallery and Louisiana Contemporary at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. Trenity has also worked as a photojournalist for The Cut and LA Times, and his photographs have received international recognition through PhotoVogue, curated by the photo editors of Vogue Italia.

Blooming Man, 2022
Photographic Print
30x20 inches framed
courtesy of Ferrara Showman Gallery

12/23/2025

Wishing that this holiday season we were back in a winter wonderland vs a high of 78 degrees 🙂
will be closed from December 23- January 2. We wish all of our members a happy holidays! Read below for upcoming information.

1️⃣NEXT EXHIBIT AT NOPA: We will bringing our auction items to the Photo Alliance Center to display for in person bidding and viewing. We will announce an opening reception in the new year! In the meantime, you can browse and bid on auction items to support the New Orleans Photo Alliance through link in our bio.

2️⃣NEXT NOPA MEMBER MEETING - January 6! We’ve been enjoying meeting with our community every month and are looking forward to continuing to do so in the new year. Check your membership status or gift a Nopa membership this holiday season through the link in our bio.

12/22/2025

PhotoNOLA Festival has ended but our online auction is still live! You can bid on items to support New Orleans Photo Alliance through this link: https://givebutter.com/c/PhotoNOLA/auction/items/1466830

Your generosity is the heartbeat of our programs, fostering connections and keeping New Orleans’ photographic community vibrant and thriving, and we are grateful for your support.

Featured auction item : "Texaco Sign" Thom Bennet
Item #1466830
You can bid on this item and or others through the same link.

12/13/2025

Explore New Orleans today and this evening by visiting some of the beautiful exhibitions and openings being hosted throughout the city! If you are uptown, stop by the New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery for our current exhibition and check out our space!
We will have our doors open tonight from 5 to 8 PM

see full list of exhibition listings here: https://photonola.org/photonola-2025/exhibitions/?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio

Featured Exhibition: KIN

Featured Artists: Jenny Adams, Ariya Aladjem Wolf, Kim Ashford, Camille Barnett, Brandin Barón, Amy Broderick, Emily Buckley, Nicole Calllac, Ebony Carter, Sophia Clay, Judith Cooper, Justine Crowley, Uma Dietzel, Ashley Gates, Gregory Gomez, Judy Cooper, Amy James, Elizabeth Peak, David Rae Morris, Emre Karaoglu

Location: The New Orleans Photo Alliance, 7800 Oak St.

The bonds of family are often brought to life through the lens of our cameras. The quiet beauty of a mother cradling her newborn, a dad basking in pride watching his toddler take their first step—or a grandparent taking the hand of the next generation.
Sometimes the strongest images we make are the ones that are the most personal to us of our family, whether it be biological or chosen, that we have captured through our lens. This exhibit is to honor those—
family: KIN

12/13/2025

Explore New Orleans today and this evening by visiting some of the beautiful exhibitions and openings being hosted throughout the city!

PhotoNOLA partners with venues and artists throughout New Orleans to photography shows in December. We have listings from galleries, museums and alternative venues who have arranged photo-based exhibitions in conjunction with the festival.

View all exhibition listings here: https://photonola.org/photonola-2025/exhibitions/

Featured Exhibition: PICTURES AT THE INTERSECTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY & COLLAGE

Featured Artists: 28 artists from Belgium, Canada, Germany, and across the USA

Location: Kolaj Institute Gallery, 2374 Saint Claude Avenue, Suite 230
Exhibition Dates: on view until 01/24/2026
Opening Reception: Saturday, December 13, 5-8PM
Additional programming: Curator Tour of the Exhibition, Sunday, December 14th, 11AM-12:30PM

Throughout 2024 and 2025, Kolaj Institute hosted virtual residencies during which artists made work at the intersection of photography and collage. Each June, New Orleans Photo Alliance Gallery hosted exhibitions as part of Kolaj Fest New Orleans and, in December 2024, Kolaj Institute presented “Camera & Collage” at its gallery in New Orleans. These activities along with that of a number of solo artists in residence and articles in the magazine have given us many points of reference to view and think about the intersection

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