With this year marking the 200th anniversary of Louisiana statehood, I thought, exhibiting various images I had captured from around the state over the years was in order.



I have been photographing my home, Louisiana, for almost half a century. I have chosen to focus primarily on the Northeast Louisiana region and New Orleans, where I have lived for many years. There are also a few shots from other regions of the state, as well as a few from Natchez and Vicksburg, Mississippi, which fit into the ‘Americana’ category; plus both my grandmothers were born in Mississippi.



I find beauty in the funkiness and eccentricity here; which is often overlooked. It is a major part of what I love to capture as a photographer: the beautiful, and the not so beautiful, the humorous, quirky, eccentric and the sad. I’ve always found Louisiana to be tragically beautiful; beautiful with an underlying sadness, mystery and magic about it; overflowing with majesty and soul, apparent in a lot of everyday things that we might overlook, not notice, or scarcely notice; things that we have become too accustomed to, which surround us; that we would see nowhere else… remnants of ages that are perishing, fading, quickly disappearing... either by man made or natural disasters." - DOUG DUFFEY