Terra Incognita: Photographs of America’s Third Coast

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Ascension

Etienne de Boré Oak

The Effect of Time on Symmetry from Terra Incognita: Photographs of America’s Third Coast (2007)

Synaptic Path

Evanescent Horizon

Refractive Sunset

Veiled Forest

Something Evil Lurks in the Garden

Medieval Dreams

The Future of the Swamp from Terra Incognita

Terra Incognita, Creole World, and Enigmatic Stream are unique in that these projects are exhibitions, as well as books. For information regarding the inaugural exhibit and subsequent travel venues for Terra Incognita, please scroll down further for slideshows of the exhibits. For information about the book version of Terra Incognita, click here.

Synopsis

In the early 90s, shortly after moving from San Francisco to New Orleans, I began making black/white landscape photographs of the gulf coast. Over the years, I slowly added to this body of work that began in the coastal regions of Walton County, Florida, and eventually encompassed landscapes in and around New Orleans, in other areas of the Florida panhandle, southwest Georgia, and the Mississippi gulf coast. After fifteen years, the potential for a book-length volume of work emerged. I approached Chronicle Books, a publisher with which I had a long and successful history creating books devoted to architecture, design, lifestyle, and urbanism. Though there had been a lengthy and highly successful collaboration with Chronicle on books of a more commercial nature, Terra Incognita was somewhat different in that it was conceived as a fine art photography book. In Terra Incognita, my photographs are the central focus of the work.

A major exhibition of the photographs from Terra Incognita was organized by The Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans. This exhibit of approximately 60 images hung in the main gallery on the Ogden’s fourth floor from October 6, 2007 through January 2, 2008.

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The exhibition has traveled since 2008, and has been on display at Ogden Water•Color; Walter Anderson Museum of Art; South Arkansas Art Center; Polk Museum of Art; Southeast Museum of Photography; and Pensacola Museum of Art. The slideshows below feature the installation, opening receptions, and associated events for travel venues prior to 2015, specifically the venues at Ogden Museum of Southern Art at Watercolor; Walter Anderson Museum of Art, Ocean Springs, MS; South Arkansas Art Center, El Dorado, AK, and Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL. Post-2015 venues at Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL, and Pensacola Museum of Art are featured on my News Blog.