Ben Depp - TIDE LINES: A Photographic Record of Louisiana’s Disappearing Coast

Event date:

Saturday, March 18, 2023 - 3:00pm to 6:00pm

Event address:

Claire Elizabeth Gallery - 131 Decatur St. - New Orleans, LA 70130

Please join us at Claire Elizabeth Gallery, 131 Decatur St, New Orleans, LA 70130, for an artist reception and book signing with Ben Depp for his impressive new book, TIDE LINES: A Photographic Record of Louisiana’s Disappearing Coast, Saturday, March 18th from 3-6pm. We will be there with books available for purchase. The gallery is currently presenting a solo exhibition Depp's TIDE LINES photography.

Stunning aerial photos that reveal Louisiana’s vanishing landscape

In TIDE LINES, Ben Depp’s photographs capture the beauty, complexity, and rapid destruction of south Louisiana. Once formed by sediment deposited by the Mississippi River, the Louisiana coast is now quickly eroding. Two thousand square miles of wetlands have returned to open water over the past eighty years.

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