Le Monde Créole
Photographs of Southern Louisiana 1994-2005
- View Large Format Gallery
- View 35mm Gallery
- Read Joel's Statement about the project
- See the Exhibition Installation
"The past isn't dead;
it isn't even past."
– William Faulkner
For more than a decade Joel has explored the Creole world of South Louisiana through the lens of his large format 5x7 view camera. He also uses a hand held 35mm camera to make quick studies not intended for the final exhibition. Both sets of pictures can be seen here.
Le Monde Créole culminated in June 2007 with a major exhibition at the Fresno Art Museumand then traveled to the Centro Fotografico Manuel Alvarez Bravo for an exhibition in January 2008. The feature length documentary film Bayou Blues: A Photographer's Journey in South Louisiana is currently in postproduction.