New Orleans
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Limited edition of 100.
240x170mm/9.5x7.5in soft cover book featuring work by artist and photographer Laura Meek celebrating the relationship of colour, light and design of New Orleans architecture.
128 pages.
Book launch and photography exhibition on 3rd November 6-8pm at Custom Lane in Edinburgh and will run through the 13th November.
My book, New Orleans is a photographic celebration of the architectural colours, light and design of architecture in the French Quarter, taken over the last two years on visits back home to Louisiana. As anyone who has visited will tell you, there is something magical about the city. Anne Rice’s mournful vampire, Louis de Pointe du Lac, Truman Capote’s flamboyant writing soaked in sun-dappled Louisiana light, moody composer Trent Reznor, Mahalia Jackson, Kate Chopin, John Kennedy Toole, Louis Armstrong and Benjamin Button A few famous names (and a few fictional ones…) that have hailed from New Orleans and whose work and personalities simmer with southern drama, beauty and intellectual grit.
There is a gorgeous patina of illumination and romance present in the French Quarter influenced and sustained by years of sun and subtropical weather. This distinctive Big Easy vibe brings alive the array of architectural splendors revealed in the details of the city’s celebrated facades.
During my childhood in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, during innumerable day trips to New Orleans I fell in love with the carefully orchestrated elegance of the French Quarter. My desire for this contemplative series of photographs was to create a collection of colour studies to better understand and appreciate just what makes up the architectural palette of the architecture. There is gothic enchantment and a real sense of past lives in the allure of the French Quarter.
Layers of paint, chipped, preserved like history itself. Lines of windows, porches, walls, ironwork and door frames precariously adjusted to time. French and Spanish design meet Colonial and Creole influences to create this city I love. The uniquely southern American chiaroscuro of New Orleans defines the range of colours, broad as the Mississippi river is wide. European meets Southern Gothic aesthetic. The light has travelled with me as an image-maker and artist. No matter where I voyage and make land, the light follows.
Laura Meek
