Tide Lines: A Photographic Record of Louisiana's Disappearing Coast with Ben Depp

Written By Susan Patrice
 

Tide Lines: A Photographic Record of Louisiana's Disappearing Coast with Ben Depp

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For over six years, Ben Depp has been engaging in a time-intensive conversation with the bayous and wetlands of southern Louisiana. From a powered paraglider, he photographs the fragile beauty of an ecosystem under duress. Flying between ten and five thousand feet above the ground, he spends hours in the air, camera in hand, creating images that ask us to reexamine our relationship with the natural world. His resulting images are precise and intimate, capturing both the narrative arc and the formal beauty of one of North America’s most endangered environmental treasures. Tide Lines is an intense bird's-eye survey that depicts south Louisiana from an unfamiliar perspective, prompting the viewer to reconsider the value of this vanishing, otherworldly landscape.

In 2019, Ben built a wooden sailboat that he uses to access parts of South Louisiana that are too remote for his paraglider. See that video here.

Click here to order Ben Depp’s newly released book.

"Depp's aerial photographs of Louisiana's wetlands and coastline are poignant examples of the catastrophic effects of climate change and serve as evidence that the American South is on the front lines of an international human-made crisis."

- Richard McCabe, curator of photography at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art

Ben Depp is an artist and National Geographic Explorer based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Much of Ben’s work has centered around environmental issues and his environmental photography has been funded by the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting, the Ford Foundation, and the National Geographic Society.

 

Ben Depp

Ben Depp

Ben Depp

Susan Patrice

As the founder and director of Makers Circle, Susan Patrice designs and implements arts-informed community initiatives in partnership with non-arts organizations who want to expand their reach and impact through innovative cross-sector collaboration. Makers Circle has a deep passion for the power of the creative process to encourage adaptive change, expand awareness, and open up new ways of seeing and relating. We believe that the arts and artists should play a major role in community regeneration and non-profit advancement. Web design and digital storytelling are foundational to the work we do with non-profits.

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