Memoirs of the Lower Ninth Ward, created by married photographer team Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick for Prospect’s Artists of Public Memory Commission.

Married photographer team Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun have created Memories of the Lower 9th Ward, a photographic sculptural installation capturing faces and memories of the Lower Ninth Ward. The house-shaped structure, which viewers could enter and explore, featured samples from the artists’ decades-long body of work recording local culture and the significant, evocative moments of a neighborhood. The work was one of the inaugural Artists of Public Memory commissions, a recent initiative from Prospect inviting selected Louisiana artists to produce public art. More at prospect6.org.

Pictured are the artists responsible for conceptualizing and creating Prospect’s Artists of Public Memory installations: An Intertribal Collective, kai lumumba barrow, Chandra McCormick, and Keith Calhoun.