The Louisiana Photographic Society Presents: Present Day Traces of Segregation, Civil Rights, and Collective Memory in Louisiana
This exhibit features 85 images on sites of segregation, Civil Rights, and memory in Louisiana.
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As part of the two-hundred-fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the Louisiana Photographic Society created a visual exhibit examining our state’s role in practicing and challenging racial segregation. This important exhibition provided Louisiana Photographic Society members with the opportunity to capture Louisiana's history with their cameras.
Place offers a powerful lens through which we can view the past. It challenges us to think beyond modern political boundaries and to consider the full history of the space we now call the United States. A deep engagement with place enables us to reconsider significant questions about our history. It encourages us to reexamine ideas about our built environments.
Some photographers went beyond places and monuments, capturing living history: the people who lived through segregation and the civil rights movement in the not-so-distant past. These images prompt viewers to learn about and reflect on our state’s history, including those moments and periods that inspire and challenge us.
William Faulkner wrote, “The past is never dead. It's not even past.” These photographs capture the past as present in the people, locations, and events of Louisiana’s segregation and Civil Rights history.
The mission of the Louisiana Photographic Society is to advance and promote the art of photography in the River Parishes of south Louisiana. To help achieve this goal, they offer members a variety of programs, classes, seminars, and field trips throughout the calendar year. And on occasion, they get together just to have fun.
Featured Photographers
Charles H. Braud, Janie Braud, Linda Benedict, Mary Ann Caffery, Debra B. Canatella, George Carpenter, Lee Gardner, Marilyn Goff, Helen Haw, John Hanley, Duane LeBlanc, Ellen LeBoeuf, Linda Medine, Grant McCurdy, Jason Morlier, Charles L. Naul, Stacey Pearson, Frank Rieger, and Herbert Sumrall.
Image Credit:
105-Mile Civil Rights March from Bogalusa to Baton Rouge, 2025 Stacey Pearson