Photography from Skip Bolen

Skip Bolen is a southern born photographer of jazz, musicians, architecture, lifestyle and the culture of New Orleans. Personal works in progress include documenting the disappearing historic landscape of vintage signs, old water towers, telephone poles, cemeteries, historic architecture and other points of interest – a collection of images that embody both romance and nostalgia. Bolen works as a stills photographer in the motion picture industry. His skills also include capturing images in very low light, challenging lighting situations and challenging work environments. His photographs are in public and private collections, including the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans and Louisiana State Museum and have appeared in various publications:  The New York Times, Life, Rolling Stone, Vogue, New York Post, US Weekly, Elle, MTV, VH-1, New York Magazine, Jazz Times, Downbeat, Where New Orleans and many others. Skip Bolen was the unit photographer for HBO’s season two finale of “True Blood” and on HBO’s pilot “Treme” by David Simon.