BEN DEPP - TIDE LINES

Claire Elizabeth Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition for Ben Depp – “Tide Lines: A Photographic Record of Louisiana's Disappearing Coast”. The title for the exhibition is also the title of Depp’s photography book, which was recently published by University Press of Mississippi. The exhibition will be on view March 9th – April 24th with a public reception and book signing, Saturday, March 18th from 3-6pm.

Ben Depp is a photographer and National Geographic Society Explorer, who lives and works in New Orleans. Since 2014, Depp has created aerial photography flying over Louisiana’s coastline and wetlands in a powered paraglider. This mode of aerial transport allows him hours of exploration, a low flight path and the time-intensive search for surprising compositions. Depp’s imagery, a balance between environmental awareness and appreciation for the beauty of nature, is intended to honor the vanishing landscape and document wetland loss and coastal erosion in Louisiana and the Gulf Coast.

Depp’s photographs have been exhibited at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Louisiana State Museum and the Southeastern Center for Photography. In 2017, he received a Communication Arts Annual Award in addition to grants from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting, the Ford Foundation, and the National Geographic Society. Depp’s work has been published in National Geographic, Smithsonian Magazine, The Sierra Club, Audubon Magazine, Cross Country Magazine and Louisiana Cultural Vistas. Depp is featured in the BBC film Earth's Great Rivers, PBS film River's of Life, and is the subject of the 2022 Bloomberg Green Film Docs Grand Prize winning documentary, “On A Wing & A Prayer”, which aired on the Smithsonian Channel & can new viewed below.

For more information on Depp or his work, please, visit his artist page. For a catalogue of his work with images and pricing, please, email us or click the catalogue below. Pricing and availability are subject to change, please, contact us for additional information or purchase inquiries.