Everybody Shoot: Pictures from New Orleans and everywhere else

Opening reception Friday, December 5, 6-8pm | Exhibition up through December 20, 2008

Three photographers, local Aaron Farrington, Jenny Bagert, and Zack Smith, met in New Orleans in 2002. What they share is a sense for the dramatic, or the quirky. Between photos that seem to document the curiosities caught by the side of the road, and more dramatic, sharply staged photos is a sense of the somewhat bizarre that emerges in snatches. New Orleans courses through this exhibition, but don’t take that as a dividing characteristic. What shows is the light filtered through an umbrella, the thousand pinpricks of light constellating a festival, a girl’s stage-lit shoulders, and what is tattooed on the inside of a lip. It’s that familiar rule—that compelling things are hidden in plain sight—but peeled open and held up to the light.