NOMA x PhotoNOLA: Gallery Talk, Panel Discussion, and Book Signing Celebrating Confluence

To celebrate the opening of Confluence: The Tina Freeman Collection of Photographs, join NOMA and PhotoNOLA for a gallery talk, an intergenerational conversation about the exhibition and career experiences in the field of photography, as well as a book signing.

Panelists for the discussion “The Work We Live With: Women in Photography” include photographer, curator, and collector Tina Freeman; photographer and filmmaker Sienna Pinderhughes; and photographer and founder of Women Photograph Daniella Zalcman. The conversation will be moderated by Emilia Mickevicius, Norton Family Assistant Curator of Photography at the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona and contributing essayist for the exhibition catalogue.

The panel discussion will be preceded by a 5:30 pm gallery talk from Brian Piper, NOMA’s Freeman Family Curator of Photographs, Prints, and Drawings. Following the discussion, a book signing for the Confluence exhibition catalogue with Piper, Mickevicius, Freeman, and Pinderhughes will be held in the NOMA Museum Shop.

This program is a collaboration between NOMA and the PhotoNOLA, an annual celebration of photography that is produced by the New Orleans Photo Alliance in connection with museums, galleries, and venues citywide. Learn more here.

Admission to this program is free with museum admission. Registration for this program is highly encouraged

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Louisiana residents receive free admission to NOMA every Wednesday courtesy of the Helis Foundation’s Art for All initiative. During the 2026 PhotoNOLA Festival (December 2 – 6, 2026), admission to NOMA is free with presentation of a PhotoNOLA participant pass at the admissions desk.

Schedule of Events

5:30-6:15 PM | Zita and Luther Templeman Galleries, Second Floor

Gallery Talk with Brian Piper, NOMA’s Freeman Family Curator of Photographs, Prints, and Drawings

6:30 – 7:30 PM | Lapis Center for the Arts, First Floor

Panel Discussion: “The Work We Live With: Women in Photography” with Tina Freeman, Sienna Pinderhighes, and Daniella Zalcman, moderated by Emilia Mickevicius.

7:30 – 8:00 PM | Coleman Courtyard, First Floor

Confluence exhibition catalogue signing with Piper, Mickevicius, Freeman, and Pinderhughes

About the Panelists

Tina Freeman

Over fifty years ago, Tina Freeman began her career in photography, working as a professional, as a curator, and building a collection. Freeman’s photography has focused on revealing interior subjects through the exploration of physical environments and natural light. Her work captures her native New Orleans, interiors around the United States and Europe, and extends to the ice floes of the Arctic and Antarctic. Freeman served as the Senior Curator of Photography at NOMA from 1977-1982. Her personal collection always complemented her work as a photographer, and she pursued new works purely for the joy of the images. Freeman always intended for her collection to join the permanent collection at NOMA and is delighted that goal will come to fruition.

Sienna Pinderhughes

Sienna Pinderhughes is a New Orleans-based photographer, filmmaker and installation artist. Her work incorporates portraiture of self, strangers and community members as part of an ongoing exploration of identity, space-making, and the power of the photographic image within the personal and collective archives. Photography is for her a love language and a community-based practice. Her work has been featured in several exhibitions including: INTERIORITY at Featherstone Center for the Arts, Martha’s Vineyard; The Female Gaze at Da Vinci Art Alliance, Philadelphia; Gestures of Refusal: Black Photography and Visual Culture at Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; IN THE SPIRIT OF BLACK at Ashé Cultural Art Center, New Orleans; In Root, Of Bone at Ace Hotel, New Orleans; and Mambu Badu: If We Came From Nowhere Here, Why Can’t We Go Somewhere There? at Trenton Artworks, NJ and Vivid Solutions Gallery in Washington DC.

Emilia Mickevicius

Emilia Mickevicius is the Norton Family Assistant Curator of Photography, a position shared between the Phoenix Art Museum and Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona. Her recent exhibition projects include Ecstatic Time: the Alchemy of Photography (2026), Muscle Memory: Lens on the Body (2026), and Funny Business: Photography and Humor (2025). Mickevicius received her PhD from Brown University in 2019, and from 2019-2023 she worked in the Photography department at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Daniella Zalcman

Daniella Zalcman is a Vietnamese-American documentary photographer based in New Orleans. She is a Catchlight Fellow, a multiple grantee of the National Geographic Society and the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a fellow with the International Women’s Media Foundation, and the founder of Women Photograph, a nonprofit working to elevate the voices of women and nonbinary visual journalists. Her work tends to…