In 2010 I was in New Orleans to present a paper at the American Anthropological Association annual conference. Some friends from the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard University, who were presenting in the same panel, organised an evening event with screenings and listening sessions. In the course of an afternoon I shot these pictures and prepared them in a slideshow to be projected that night, inspired by the juxtaposition of man-made and natural materials in the beautiful capital of Louisiana.