Eric Waters is a photographer and social practice artist who has been documenting Black social life and cultural traditions in and around New Orleans for over forty years. Waters received his undergraduate degree from Dillard University and studied photography independently under the tutelage of the late Marion J. Porter, a well-known and respected Black New Orleans photographer. His work encompasses a broad range of interests and has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the New Orleans Museum of Art, the New Orleans African American Museum, the New Orleans Jazz Museum at the Old US Mint, the Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, and Ashé Cultural Arts Center. A 2019 Joan Mitchell Foundation Artist-in-Residence, his work has been featured in numerous catalogs and books, including a catalog of his work in Freedom’s Dance: Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs in New Orleans (2018), narrated by Karen Celestan.
