Stewart Harvey’s photographs have been exhibited and published widely in during his 30-year professional career in Portland, Oregon. He is a recent recipient of an Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship, and his work is in the collections of the Portland Art Museum, The Tacoma Art Museum, and several University Archives. Two of his New Orleans “Sketchbook” series were published in the “Katrina Exposed” book, and are included in the print collection of New Orleans Museum of Art. It was also featured as a 20-print photo essay in LensWork Quarterly. In 2008, the State Museum of Louisiana purchased 24 of his ongoing New Orleans Sketchbook series. He has also been photographing the Burning Man Event since 1989, and this work has been widely published in both magazines and hard cover books. Most recently, he was selected as one of four featured photographers for “Burning Book”, Simon & Schuster, 2007.
Nurturing Shells: The Culture of Personal Space
“It has been said in New Orleans “culture bubbles up from the bottom,” and this city is unique in that only a little of what constitutes its cultural currency trickles down from elite institutions. Other than its grand architecture, the itinerant musicians and shabby shop owners contribute as much to the cultural essence of the city as the social elite or the power brokers of art and politics. Individuality is esteemed in the Crescent City and so is irreverent self-expression. Often that individuality is illustrated by costuming during Mardi Gras parades and Second Lines, but it very often also carries over to their living or working environments. At its core New Orleans is a bohemian city, a city of dreamers and schemers, a city of artists and the artistically inspired, individuals who’ve transformed the act of living in New Orleans into monuments of personal expression.”
Photographs are Epson Ultra Chrome pigment ink on Museo Silver Rag 100% cotton paper.
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