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[…]
Latest Book from Richard Sexton is Now Available: October 1, 2024
New Orleans: A Photo Guide to the Wild Mélange is now in general release and available for sale from your favorite local retail bookseller and online. A profile of the title with a description, page spreads, and a slideshow of images can be found here: New Orleans: A Photo Guide[…]
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:
Inaugural Book Event for Elegance & Decadence at Octavia Books, New Orleans, July 13, 2023
On July 13, 2023, the inaugural book event for the new, 30th anniversary edition of New Orleans: Elegance and Decadence, was held at Octavia Books, one of New Orleans’ finest locally-owned, independent bookstores. We had a lively SRO crowd for the talk and signing. Our next book event for the[…]
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[…]