A Spirited Season Sampling - 2024

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Written By Melanie Cole

Krewe de Mayahuel’s Dia de Los Muertos Cemetery Procession

2024

This year, October 19th was the kick-off day, with the Boo Carre Halloween Haunt at the French Market and the Krewe of Boo parade. On Halloween Day, the 26th annual VOODOOFEST celebrated the cultural richness that the Voodoo religion has added to our city’s culture, then culminating on November 2 with Krewe de Mayahuel’s Dia de Los Muertos Cemetery Procession from the Bywater to the St. Roch Cemetery to honor lost loved ones.

- photos by Ellis Anderson and Melanie Cole 

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Boo Carre Halloween Haunt at the French Market

Krewe of Boo & the Quarter

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Melanie Cole

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.

Melanie lives with her two cats and loves to kayak LA/MS backwaters in her free time. Contact her at melanieshootsphotos@gmail.com and follow her at melnaieshootsphotos on Instagram.

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