Monique Michelle has been documenting her French Indian relatives living in the bayou communities of Lafourche, Terrebonne & St. Bernard parishes, since 1998. Her imagery offers an intimate perspective into her family’s endangered way of life. The photographic documentation she has captured exposes the threat of cultural extinction that exist in South Louisiana, caused by the backlash of environmental injustice and coastal erosion created by mankind’s modern manipulations.

In 2005, she teamed up with fellow south Louisianian, Mark Krasnoff, and together they documented their journey through the aftermath, while following her 90 year old French-Indian grandmother through the debris, all the way “down the road”, to Monique’s family home in lower St. Bernard Parish. No Place like Home is a product their post-Katrina work together.

Monique Michelle continues to document her family, their culture, and the south Louisiana community around her while attempting to rebuild, renew and readapt to life in south Louisiana, post-Katrina.

Monique Michelle
moniquemichelle@mac.com
337.254.7884