Prospect 6, an art event that began in New Orleans following Katrina and now in its sixth iteration, opened on November 2, 2024 and will run through February 2, 2025. One of the many installation sites includes a former Ford Model T assembly plant located in Chalmette, Louisiana, which has[…]
News from Winter and Spring of 2024
I was interviewed by New Orleans-based art writer Chris Waddington on March 3, 2024, for Salon Bywater, a volunteer organization that sponsors events about artists who live in New Orleans’ Bywater neighborhood, or adjacent areas. The interview was recorded and will be archived by The Historic New Orleans Collection. It[…]
74, M4, Latin America Exhibit at Tamarkin Rangefinder Gallery in Chicago; Nov. 10 thru Dec. 31, 2023
Photographs from my recently published memoir: 74; M4; Latin America: a year, a camera, a road trip, are on display at Tamarkin Camera in the Rangefinder Gallery, 213 W. Institute Place, Chicago, Illinois, during the fall of 2023. We began with a Zoom session sponsored by Leica Camera USA and Tamarkin[…]
Elegance & Decadence Exhibit Opens at Ogden Museum of Southern Art; September 15 to November 26, 2023
An exhibit featuring 17 prints by Richard Sexton from New Orleans: Elegance and Decadence is on view at Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans from September 15 to November 26, 2023. The exhibit is featured on the Ogden’s website here: https://ogdenmuseum.org/exhibition/new-orleans-elegance-and-decadence/.
74; M4; Latin America Featured in Viewfinder Magazine
My recently published memoir, 74, M4, Latin America: a year, a camera, a road trip is featured in Volume 56, Issue 2, of Viewfinder, the quarterly journal of Leica Society International. The cover and spreads from the feature are shown below:
74; M4; Latin America Exhibit at Leica Store Miami, June 8 thru August 31, 2023
Photographs from my recently published memoir: 74; M4; Latin America: a year, a camera, a road trip, are on display at Leica Store Miami, 372 Miracle Mile, Coral Gables, Florida, during the summer of 2023. The opening reception and book signing was held on June 8, 2023. The exhibit will[…]
Launch Party for 74, M4, Latin America & Sneak Preview for the New Edition of New Orleans: Elegance and Decadence
April 19, 2023, was the official launch of my latest book project: 74, M4, Latin America: a year, a camera, a road trip, which features my first serious photography project. It’s named for the year, the camera I photographed with, and the destination I traveled to. It’s framed as a[…]
Cultural Currency: Contemporary Art from the Riemer Collection
I’m proud to have a print included in a current exhibit at Bedford Gallery in Walnut Creek, CA. The exhibit opened on June 30, 2022, and runs through September 18, 2022. All works in the exhibit focus on the subject of money. Here’s the image included: And here’s another photograph[…]
People, Porches, and Places Exhibit
People, Porches, and Places, an exhibit curated by Kathe Hambrick, director of the River Road African-American Museum, opened in New Roads at the Poydras Center on April 24, 2022. Concurrent with the exhibit opening was a dedication ceremony for the newly installed Louisiana Historical Marker for the Miss Jane Pittman[…]
Enigmatic Stream featured in the documentary film Eternal Flow
My recent project Enigmatic Stream: Industrial Landscapes of the Lower Mississippi River is featured in the documentary film Eternal Flow: A Stacked Documentary in Seven Sections by Kevin McCaffrey. One of the seven sections is about Enigmatic Stream with an interview shot in the exhibit space at the Historic New[…]