Artist: Jeremiah Ariaz | Location: Baton Rouge, LA
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Artist: Jeremiah Ariaz | Location: Baton Rouge, LA
Baton Rouge, LA
Jeremiah Ariaz is a Professor at Louisiana State University. His current project Louisiana Trail Riders features Black trail-riding clubs with roots in Creole culture formed in South Louisiana in the eighteenth century. The riders are a stark contrast to most depictions of cowboys and serve as a reminder that Black equestrian culture stems from a time when the Louisiana Territory was in fact the American West. For the photographs Ariaz was named the 2018 Louisiana State Fellow and awarded the 2018 Southern Arts Finalist Prize from South Arts. He was also the recipient of the 2018 Michael P. Smith Award for Documentary Photography from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, a Community Partnership Grant from the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, and an ATLAS grant.
A monograph of the work titled "Louisiana Trail Riders" was released last fall from UL Press and has been featured in the Paris Review, U.S. News and World Report, Oxford American, among others.
Artist Website
https://www.louisianatrailriders.com