Shadow Angelina, 30, was born in Louisiana
and raised on the Atlantic coast of South Florida.
She is both self-taught
and schooled at the New Orleans Academy of Fine Arts.
Heritage and grief brought her back to New Orleans
where she has lived for over 13 years.
She has traveled and photographed in
Australia, England, Ireland,
Scotland, Italy, the Czech Republic,
11 states and the District of Columbia.
She is the daughter of an Irish father
and a Cajun/Cherokee mother.
Her family has lived in New Orleans since 1727.
The struggle to understand her own eye,
to find an artistic outlet
and her desire to explain to others how she sees the world
brought her on the journey to photography.
Inspired by loss, crumbling beauty, enduring devotion,
religion, honoring the past,
places once loved or needed intensely but now forgotten,
self-actualization, abandon
and the lush landscape of the human experience,
her passion and work bleeds, drowning you in whatever she shows you.
Edit as of 01-10-06:
These inspirations have been all the more amplified since the landfall of Hurricane Katrina
and subsequent levee breaches in August 2005.
After homelessness and exile in England, she and her family have returned to New Orleans.
The passion to see, document
and preserve this life altering experience is yet another motivation.
Shadow Angelina lives in the 9th ward
with her dogs Morgan and Mischa and a cat, Auchentoshen.
If you live near or will be visiting the New Orleans area and are interested in modeling for Shadow Angelina,
send a message for information and arrangements.
All photographs are copyrighted ©
Please contact the artist regarding usage or interest in a print.
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Times are not good here, the city is crumbing into ashes.
It has been buried under a lava flood of taxes and frauds and maladministration so that is has become only a study for archaeologists.
It's condition is so bad that when I write about it, as I intend to do soon, nobody will believe I am telling the truth.
But it is better to live here in a sack cloth and ashes than to own the whole state of Ohio.
Lafcadio Hearn, writing about New Orleans 1877
