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Please join us for the opening reception of on Friday, December 6 from 5:00 – 7:00pm.

Rising Tide: Photography by Ben Depp exhibition is on view in our downstairs galleries from December 6, 2024 through April 4, 2025.

This exhibition is part of Ben Depp’s ongoing project documenting the rapidly shifting landscape of southern Louisiana. Depp has been flying above the bayous and wetlands of southern Louisiana in a powered paraglider for ten years, photographing the incredible beauty and the visual clues that tell the story of this place and its destruction. This intimate view of Louisiana, from a bird’s-eye perspective, prompts Depp – and he hopes, others – to see and appreciate this landscape in new ways. In Depp’s photographs, one can make out varieties of plants, see the weather and seasonal changes—from the shifting high-water line, color temperature and softness of light, to what is in bloom—distinguish living cypress trees from those that have been killed by saltwater intrusion, or see the patterns made by wave energy on barrier island beaches.