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Frank
Relle is a photographer born and based
in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is the recipient of numerous awards
including a 2007 International Photography Award and the Photo Lucida
Critical Mass top 50 photographers 2006 and 2011.
His work is included the Smithsonian Museum of American History,
the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston.
His photographs have been printed in the New Yorker, the Southern
Review and the Oxford American magazines.
On finding
his path to photography, Frank says:
“After college, I wanted to be a writer so I went to Paris.
Penniless, I slept outside on the steps of the Trocadero. Eventually
I met a great teacher, Jacques Laval, who introduced me to the works
of Goya, Rembrandt and Proust.
Taking the long route home, a silver-haired man named Captain Paul
Morgan gave me a job on a tugboat. While sailing in the Caribbean
Sea, I read Tolstoy and realized that I would never cut it as a
writer.
I decided to pursue photography. I went to New York to find photography,
but lost it in the bright lights and darkrooms. I came home to New
Orleans and listened to Bob French’s voice on WWOZ.
On meditative nightly drives behind the wheel of my grandmother’s
1986 Lincoln Town Car, I discovered a new way to see. Low to the
ground, that wide, old windshield provided the best viewfinder I’ve
ever used. Shot from 2004 to the present, the photographs are lit
to capture the mood from that same perspective. The images leave
room for the viewers’ interpretations and for a cast of characters
to take position in the foreground.”
Download
Complete Resume PDF
( Updated March 2010)
Education
Tulane University
B.S. (2000) Cognitive Science and Philosophy
Selected Public Collections
National Museum of American History-Smithsonian Institution, Washington,
D.C.
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Louisiana State Museum, New Orleans, LA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
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