Renee Allie 

Renee Allie is a New Orleans artist who uses darkroom photography as her main medium, exploring the layers of analog using vintage 2 ¼, 35 mm, plastic cameras and family ephemera to create bodies of work that hold personal resonance. Her photographic subjects vary and sway, from specific long-term documentary projects to reoccurring thematic ideas and concepts in portraiture and landscape. She is recently exploring various alternative processes and incorporating them into her artistic arsenal. In 2018 she completed a portfolio of hand-colored silver gelatin images that were exhibited in a solo show, American Malarkey at Brick Red Gallery; one image also received an honorary mention in And Now for Something New, Vol. 1 at Le Mieux Gallery and she was chosen as one of the twenty-five artists for the Louisiana Contemporary 2018 at the Ogden Museum in New Orleans.

PARK | NOLA
Reneé Allie / David Armentor

These images are created by using a pinhole capture low to the ground allowing for a unique perspective with infinite depth of field and an over the top dramatic sense; the output is printed on silver gelatin paper and then  hand-colored to allow for a whimsical finish. These techniques are paired to create a fun tension in the final object which  represents the nature of parking and driving  in city of New Orleans.