Description
Heirship depicts one of the fastest-disappearing landscapes in the world: the last seventy-five miles of the Mississippi River before it reaches the Gulf of Mexico. The book is comprised of aerial photographs made by photographer Ben from his powered paraglider and poetry by Ian Lockaby.
Ben Depp is an artist based in New Orleans, Louisiana. Much of Depp’s work has centered around the environment. In 2014, Depp began making aerial photographs by powered paraglider, which allows for hours of exploration, a low flight path and the time-intensive search for surprising compositions. Depp has been exploring and photographing South Louisiana’s coastal landscapes for eleven years.
Depp’s work is in the permanent collections of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art and The Historic New Orleans Collection. His work has been shown at the Walter Anderson Museum, Louisiana State Museum, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and more. Photographs from this project have been published by National Geographic, Smithsonian Magazine, Photography Forum, and others.
