Elizabeth Peak: Your Belly Is Beautiful

German-American photographer Elizabeth Peak began her photographic studies in 1991 when she took her first lesson from Felicia Leggio Braud. She graduated from Louisiana State University in 1986, and later studied photography with Dr. Terry Kennedy at Southern University. She takes her camera everywhere — from backyard adventures to international destinations. More recently, she became inspired by the #MeToo movement, the 2016 protests of Alton Sterling's murder, Equal Rights Amendment rallies, as well as the attacks on women's sexual and reproductive freedoms. Politically ignited, her current project is My Core: Our Bellies, Our Power, Our Choice!, photographs of individual women that reveal strength, self-determination, and sexual and reproductive freedom and justice. Elizabeth Peak lives in Baton Rouge.

Sara Madandar: Living In Between

Sara Madandar is an Iranian multi-disciplinary artist and educator based in New Orleans. She received her MFA from the University of Texas at Austin and her BA in painting from Azad University of Art and Architecture in Tehran. Through a range of media such as painting, video, installation, and performance, Madandar explores migration and the human experience of living between cultures, using the aesthetics of language, clothing, and bodies to study the complexities of cross-cultural experiences. Most recently, she was in residency at Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans.

Camille Lenain: Made of Smokeless Fire

Camille Farrah Lenain is a French-Algerian documentary and portrait photographer who grew up in Paris, studied Photography at l’ESA in Brussels and at ICP in New York City (virtual). She relocated to New Orleans in 2013, where she teaches photography at Tulane University and works on long-term projects with a focus on empathetic portraiture, exploring the notions of representation, collective memory and plural identities.

Antonia Zennaro: Tell Your Truth

Antonia Zennaro is a documentary photographer and social artist who explores the human spirit around the world. She has been developing her own printing method for the last five years, using a serigraph based technique in which she uses an exposure unit to burn her large format negatives onto fabrics such as satin and organza. Using a light sensitive chemical glue between the two surfaces she creates a contact print, and the negative image is burned into the fabric. This innovative process creates stunning monocolor pieces that are waterproof, pliant, and form beautiful silhouettes when light passes through them. Her work is an intimate examination of the social and political constructs that co-create the world around us.