Pictures from the reception at Candela Books + Gallery

Photographs by Adair Dages Wheat

American Folk at Candela Books + Gallery - March 7 to April 19

11/23/13 - Gwarlingo - Miriam Sagan's Seven Places in America, with images by Lisa Elmaleh and William Henry Jackson.

Interview with FotoFilmic

Read all about my upcoming project photographing meatloafs. Or, why I do what I do. <===== click there.

Two sticks of butter, a great deal of mayonnaise, and the Mythology of Florida at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art (-or, I'd like to be in New Orleans right now.)

If you happen to get down to New Orleans sometime between tomorrow and January 5th, check out the Ogden Museum's "Mythology of Florida" show - pictured above is a 30x40" print of Paurotis Palms, on the wall of the Ogden.

Interview for Art Uncovered, by Breakthru Radio

Earlier this month, I did an interview with Thomas of Breakthru Radio.

You can hear it here:

Art Uncovered - Lisa Elmaleh, by Breakthru Radio

Carville, LA - The Separating Sickness, by Rebecca Solnit

Harper's Magazine sent me down to Carville, LA to photograph for a The Separating Sickness - How Leprosy Teaches Empathy, a story by Rebecca Solnit, whose work I have long admired.

The whole shoot had to be done in short notice, so I sent my whole darkroom down to Louisiana by FedEx, piece by piece and bottle by bottle, and re-built it in a rental SUV. I was sad to leave my truck (Harriet) behind, as my truck has become such a key element to what I do - it's where I sleep, where I eat, where I rest, and it makes a really comfortable stand-up darkroom. It's kind of like a giant camera bag with a darkroom, bedroom, and kitchen inside of it that I can drive around. I just love that truck. And it does great on gas mileage.

Here's a picture of what my living room floor looked like during the prep time:



Anyways, once I got to Louisiana, I picked up my brand-new ENORMOUS rental-car 36-passenger Chevrolet SUV with bright white interior. And suddenly, I realized that I would have to try my best not to get my new houseboat on wheels too stained up with photochemistry. Which, being clean and tidy is not particularly something that I am good at.

The grounds were immaculate and beautiful and incredibly saddening. The trees were enormous, and old, and some were missing limbs as though they had amputations. The landscape showed empathy. I shot over 30 glass negatives. Out of the 30 glass negatives, 5 images were published in Harper's magazine, and a sixth was published on their blog.

See it in the June issue of Harper's Magazine. Actually, you should probably just subscribe to Harper's magazine, 'cause it's super cheap to subscribe, and its a really incredible magazine that I love-love-love.

signing off,

Lisa