An Night of Photography – New Orleans Photo Alliance

When: May 30, 2026, 4 to 6PM

Where: A Gallery for Fine Photography – 7457 St. Charles Avenue – @ Cherokee St

Hosted by A Gallery for Fine Photography and The New Orleans Photo Alliance

Featuring Presentations by: 

Eli Mergel, Interim President, New Orleans Photo Alliance

Joshua Mann Pailet, Chief, AGFP

Richard Sexton, present exhibiting photographer at AGFP

A moderated panel dialogue will comply with the shows. All method of questions are inspired concerning the present state of pictures in New Orleans, and past, and what the long run holds for the medium.

About the Presenters:

Eli Mergel has gained a big portfolio in occasion, avenue, and architectural pictures over time. With a profession in Information Technology and a previous life inside the Marines, Eli has the benefit of being on the cutting-edge whereas additionally being down-to-earth. When he’s not in NYC capturing candid avenue, he may be present in New Orleans capturing occasions and native tradition. He has been printed in books about New Orleans, NYC, and Architecture, in addition to papers, magazines, zines, and smaller publications.

Joshua Mann Pailet is the proprietor and founding father of A Gallery for Fine Photography, the oldest repeatedly working pictures gallery within the United States. Based in New Orleans, AGFP is now in its 53rd yr of operation and options work from pictures’s inception within the early nineteenth Century to right this moment. More info is accessible at www.agallery.com.

Richard Sexton is a advantageous artwork and media photographer whose work has been extensively printed and exhibited. He is the creator/photographer of 18 picture books and has over 300,000 books in print. His work is included within the everlasting holdings of The Historic New Orleans Collection, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans Museum of Art, High Museum of Art, Frost Art Museum, Southeast Museum of Photography, amongst others. In 2014 Richard obtained the Michael P. Smith Award for Documentary Photography from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. More info is accessible at www.richardsextonstudio.com.   

About the Moderator:

RICHARD McCABE

Richard McCabe is a curator, photographer and author primarily based in New Orleans. He was born in England and grew up within the American South. In 1998, he obtained an MFA in Studio Art from Florida State University. He has taught Photography as an adjunct professor at: Pratt Institute, New York City, Montclair State University, Montclair, New Jersey, Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut and Xavier University, New Orleans, Louisiana. 

Since 2011, he has been the Curator of Photography on the Ogden Museum of Southern Art. He has organized and curated over 40 exhibitions together with: The Mythology of Florida, Eudora Welty: Photographs from the Nineteen Thirties-40s, Self-Processing: Instant Photography, New Southern Photography, Memory is a Strange Bell: The Art of William Christenberry, Spell, Time, Practice, American, Body: The Work of RaMell Ross and Baldwin Lee.

McCabe’s ideas and writings on pictures have been printed within the New York Times, Time, National Public Radio(NPR), Louisiana Cultural Vistas, Spot, The Bitter Southerner, HOTSHOE and LENSCRATCH journal. In 2018, he contributed the introduction essay  – The Reality on the Ground for the University of New Orleans press publication: New Southern Photography: Images of the Twenty-first Century South. In 2019 he wrote the introduction essay forthe Cattywampus press publication: Devin Lunsford: All the Place You’ve Got, and the essay – The North Star for the Ogden Museum publication – Memory is a Strange Bell: The Art of William Christenberry.