Exhibition Opening

and Reception

Cooking Louisiana True:

The Photography of

Jackson Hill

 Friday, December 4

5 to 7 P.M.

Southern Food and Beverage Museum.

Free and open to the public.

This exhibition, sponsored by the Abita Brewing Company, will feature photographs by Jackson Hill from the recently released Abita cookbook, “Cooking Louisiana True.” It will open with a reception from 5 to 7 pm on Friday, December 4th. The exhibit will run through March 4, 2010.

Hill will sign copies of the book at the opening night party and Abita Beer will be served. The opening night party also will feature New Orleans author Katie Bowler who will read her poem "State Street." The long poem follows Bowler, photographer Donn Young, and an NBC Nightly News crew as they traverse post-Katrina New Orleans, reclaiming what could be salvaged of more than 35 years’ worth of Young’s historic New Orleans photography.

“It’s an evening celebrating the art of photography,” says Liz Williams, president of the Southern Food and Beverage Museum. “We genuinely want to maintain a relationship with photographers and with the New Orleans Photo Alliance. As a museum, we’ll always have something that focuses on photography.”

Hill is a still photographer who shoots extensively in the oil & gas, maritime, industrial, aerial and architectural fields. He frequently exhibits his work at his studio/gallery Southern Lights near downtown New Orleans. He taught photography for 12 years at New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts and gives seminars about photography and digital imaging.