April 2024

The 2024 French Quarter Festival played, sang and danced its way through four glorious days of sunshine to the delight of visitors and locals alike.

- photos by Scott Saltzman, Melanie Cole and Gregg Martel

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The Photographers

Scott Saltzman strives to create imagery encapsulating the feeling of a moment or time frame, to create a 1000 word essay with a single image. Scott has been residing in New Orleans as a freelance photographer for over 30 years. During that time,  his experience living, exploring and documenting the raw, albeit sometimes subtle, emotional energy found in live performance (and other avenues of life)  has helped him create an archive with some truly sentinel images of and for the times.  Some of those images can be seen here, here and on his website.

Brit by birth, Texan by persuasion, Melanie Cole was lured by the NOLA sirens in 2019. After college she accidentally found herself vagabonding around the globe in an international modeling career. By the 90s she’d ditched the runway heels for a thrift store army parka and torn jeans and began training as a graphic designer in Hamburg, Germany. She spent the following decades designing and developing print retail magazines for major publishing houses there. Creating layouts that told stories in photos, together with her early years spent in front of a camera, honed her innate ability to capture the essence of a photographic story. She remains passionate about light, color, space, movement, people and their cultures, and visually documenting their stories. Contact her at melanieshootsphotos@gmail.com and follow her at melnaieshootsphotos on Instagram.