Nonprofit Photography from New Orleans, LA | Travel Tuesdays

This past week I traveled to New Orleans, Lousiana to attend a Momenta Workshop geared toward teaching documentary photojournalists how to successfully work with nonprofit organizations. This was the first workshop I have ever attended and it was incredible. I learned so much, made some wonderful new friends and am feeling really inspired.

There were 13 students at the workshop and we were each paired with a nonprofit organization. I had the pleasure of working with the Kingsley House located in the lower Garden District. The home was founded in 1896 and provides services to children, families, senior citizens and medically fragile adults. They are involved in a wide variety of programs and I was able to spend time photographing their senior citizen center and Head Start program which prepares children from low-income families for kindergarten.

The whole experience was simply wonderful and completely overwhelming. This workshop was recently voted About.com’s Readers Choice for the Best Learning Vacation of 2013. I’m not sure I would consider this trip a vacation, with all the work and lectures I was eagerly absorbing, but we definitely found some time to have fun. The Momenta group constantly preaches “we are all one, big, happy family” and they definitely made you feel that way. Super informative, helpful, honest and entertaining I cannot thank Jamie Rose, Chris Usher, Eva Russo and Tom Smith for all their wonderful feedback and guidance.

It was my first visit to New Orleans and I was greeted with such warmth and friendliness by everyone I met I will definitely be coming back. Here are some images I made from the home. Stay tuned for some New Orleans street photography on my next Travel Tuesdays.