Portraits and Dreams colour the New Orleans Museum of

the New Orleans Museum of Art

Sensuous in detail and raw in subject

director of LE BAL

€35 £30 $40

The photographs are imbued with a foreboding and unease

Portraits and Dreams colour the New Orleans Museum ofWhen Wendy Ewald arrived in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains in 1975, she began a project that aimed to reveal the lives, intimate dreams and fears of local schoolchildren. Tasked with finding authentic ways of representing the lives of these children, she gave each of them a camera and interviewed them about their childhood in the mountains. Through these intriguing transcripts and photographs, we discover the lives of families as seen through