Mardi Gras 2025: 100+ Photographs

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Mar 5

St Anthony Ramblers with Panorama Brass Band at Dumaine and Chartres, photo by Ellis Anderson

March 2025

Was the predicted morning storm kept at bay until evening by great music, goodwill and exuberant spirits? Whatever the cause, locals in the Marigny, Tremé and French Quarter declared it one of the best Mardi Gras days in recent memory.

– photos by Shawn Fink, Scott Saltzman, and Ellis Anderson

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Photographs by Shawn Fink

Starting off the day with Skull and Bones in the Tremé, photo by Shawn Fink

Photographs by Scott Saltzman

Photos by Ellis Anderson

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Ellis Anderson

Ellis Anderson first came to the French Quarter in 1978 as a young musician and writer. Eventually, she also became a silversmith and represented local artists as owner of Quarter Moon Gallery, with locations in the Quarter and Bay St. Louis, on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Her book about the Bay's Katrina experience, Under Surge, Under Siege, was published by University Press of Mississippi and won several awards, including the Eudora Welty Book Prize in 2010 and the Mississippi Library Association's Nonfiction Author's Award for 2011. Under Surge, Under Siege was also short-listed as nonfiction finalist for the 2012 William Saroyan International Book Prize, Stanford University Libraries.

In 2011, Anderson founded her first digital publication, the Shoofly Magazine and served as publisher from 2011 - 2022. She established French Quarter Journal in 2019, where she currently serves as publisher and managing editor.

Mardi Gras 2025: 100+ Photographs

Photographs by Shawn Fink

Photographs by Scott Saltzman

Photos by Ellis Anderson

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Mardi Gras 2025: 100+ Photographs

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Photos by Ellis Anderson

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