HUGE congratulations to New Orleans based photographer and Cassilhaus Artist-in-Residence alum Deborah Luster for being awarded a Guggenheim fellowship for her stunning and singular photographic work.
Debbie is best known for her long-term documentary series, One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana
(1998–2003, with poet C. D. Wright), a photographic archive of
portraits of prisoners from three Louisiana prisons, including the
Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola; and Tooth for an Eye: a Chorography of Violence in Orleans Parish
(2008–2011), a photographic archive of cityscapes documenting locations
in New Orleans where homicides have been committed. Twin Palms
Publishing has issued monographs of both collections.
Luster’s awards include the Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize for
Documentary Photography from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke
University (with C. D. Wright), an Anonymous Was a Woman Award, the John
Guttman Award, the Bucksbaum Family Award for American Photography, and
a Peter S. Reed Foundation Award.
Her work is included in the permanent collections of the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Los
Angeles County Museum of Art; The Smithsonian American Art Museum; New
Orleans Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Pier 24, San
Francisco; the Margulies Collection, Miami; and other notable public and
private collections.
WAY TO GO DEBBIE!
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