On October 8, 2020, Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun joined Art and Art History professor Hannah Ryan for a conversation about their work in Flaten Art Museum’s exhibition We No Longer Consider Them Damaged: The Abstract Photographs of Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun.
Since the early 1980s, photographers Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick have chronicled the African American experience in New Orleans and the surrounding Louisiana parishes. Working collaboratively, they preserve the unique traditions and deep-rooted attributes of Louisiana culture. Their images bear witness to both the celebrations and struggles of everyday events, with attention to the profound sense of place felt by Louisianans. Calhoun and McCormick were born in New Orleans. They are both from the Lower 9th Ward, a neighborhood that, prior to Hurricane Katrina in 2005, boasted the largest concentration of African American homeowners in the United States. Their photographic archive was nearly destroyed by Hurricane Katrina, yet their work has proved resilient.
Click here to watch the archived conversation.
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