I was asked to photograph a street that no longer exists, rebuilt carefully for Interview with the Vampire.
Photography and cinema both ask us to imagine and to believe. Sometimes they invent truth by building a fiction slowly, carefully, until it feels real.
I drove until cell reception faded away.
The song turned to static.
Looking for a place where the world loosens its edges,
a horizon that asks nothing of me.
Growing up in Louisiana, I spent countless evenings listening to Dave McNamara’s Heart of Louisiana stories. His voice carried the landscape, the people, and the mystery of this place into my imagination long before I ever paddled into a swamp with a camera. His voice has always felt like the sound of home.
So it’s a real honor to share that Dave spent a night with me in the Atchafalaya Basin for a new Heart of Louisiana segment. He followed me out into the water after dark, where I searched by moonlight for the quiet spaces between the cypress trees.
Heart of Louisiana: Frank Relle https://t.co/GtpjH5NREH
Under the Bridge honors the spirit of collaboration and the connection between Louisiana's natural history and the engineering that makes life here possible.
This summer, I installed my largest photograph ever—25 ft wide and 17 ft tall—beneath the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge.
Created with 12 collaborators, the piece marks 20 years since Hurricane Katrina, linking Louisiana’s natural history with the engineering that makes life here possible.