Fresh Focus On Katrina Legacy, Mardi Gras and All That Jazz ; Culture Visual Arts Award-Winning Birmingham Photographer Chris Keenan Tells Terry Grimley About His Ongoing Coverage of New Orleans and a Trip to Find Some Legendary Musicians in Prague

Birmingham Post › January 08, 2008

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Chris Keenan seems to have a natural empathy with musical activists. During 2007 he was seeking them out to photograph in New Orleans and Prague.

Keenan, 28, was recently one of three Birmingham winners in Channel 4's 4Talent Awards for young creatives (the others were performance poet Polarbear, alias Steven Camden, and comedian Nathan Hughes-Berry).

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Fresh Focus On Katrina Legacy, Mardi Gras and All That Jazz ; Culture Visual Arts Award-Winning Birmingham Photographer Chris Keenan Tells Terry Grimley About His Ongoing Coverage of New Orleans and a Trip to Find Some Legendary Musicians in Prague

His interest in New Orleans began when he was hired by Southern Comfort to take photographs there in 2005, before Hurricane Katrina wrecked the city. I wrote about his return visit, also sponsored by Southern Comfort, in April 2006.

Early last ye...

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