Erika Goldring via giant steps through a matrix based in the phenomenon placing most of the 7.8 billion of us within 6 or fewer degrees — steps — of each other...
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Who I Am & Where I Live
- Name: Erika Goldring
- City: New Orleans, Louisiana
- Country: United States
My Life & Work
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Bio:
For nearly twenty years, New Orleans-based fine art music photographer Erika Molleck Goldring has developed her own unique style of performance portraiture. Her character-driven portfolio features such celebrated acts as Beyonce, Keith Richards, Willie Nelson, and Fats Domino, as well as breaking new acts in genres as divergent as hip-hop, jazz, blues, bluegrass, americana, country, pop and rock.
Erika captures the energy in a live show—whether it’s the split second a beautiful stage light falls on her subject or the raw emotion emanating from the performer lost in the groove. Simplicity and balance prevail in Erika’s images. Her work speaks of the sounds, vibrations and rhythmic idiosyncrasies distinct to each performer.
Her work is regularly featured in a number of publications and newspapers, including Rolling Stone, People, Entertainment Weekly, Time, Billboard and DownBeat magazines, as well as the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, USA Today and The Guardian newspapers. Erika has had works accepted into the Smithsonian’s Ogden Museum of Southern Art and the Louisiana State Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana, the Delta Blues Museum in Clarksdale, Mississippi, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum in Cleveland, OH.
She is continually hired by Getty Images Entertainment, performing rights organization BMI, Ryman Auditorium and Ryman Hospitality Properties, Sony Nashville, Americana Music Association, Pilgrimage Festival, Key West Songwriters Festival and Trombone Shorty Foundation.
Contact Information
- Email: erika.goldring@gmail.com
- Contact by Webpage: http://www.erikagoldring.com/contact
- Telephone: +1 504.920.3830
My Media & Markets
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- ▶ Website: http://www.erikagoldring.com
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Quotes, Notes & Etc.
“Erika has an ability to non-intrusively move into the mix of New Orleans’ cultural bearers, from Social Aid & Pleasure Clubs to Mardi Gras Indians, capturing intimate moments without disturbing the tradition itself.”
Michelle Longino, Founder & Inter-Club Relations Director,
New Orleans Bayou Steppers Social Aid & Pleasure Club
“Erika Goldring has the valuable and rare ability as a photographer to shoot images that are as dynamic as the culture and musicians she portrays and yet exhibit a mystery and intimacy with her subjects, giving them a depth that is not often seen.”
David Kunian, New Orleans correspondent, DownBeat Magazine
The world's artistry via giant steps through a matrix based in the phenomenon placing most of the 7.8 billion of us within 6 or fewer degrees — steps — of each other ...
... a project conceived and built in the fertile, fecund and atavistic ground zero of Bahia, Brazil initially for the discoverability of this singular region's dispossessed genius.
All explained in the window immediately below. Followed — beneath this window — by scores of magnificent artists, each leading to myriads more artists/categories. Inside this window also may be found our Brazilian record store radio, named by British journal The Guardian as one of 10 of the Best Radio Stations Around the World!
IF YOU CAN'T STAND THE HEAT
Brazil is not a European nation. It's not a North American nation. It's not an East Asian nation. It straddles -- jungle and desert and dense urban centers -- both the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn. It absorbed over ten times the number of African slaves taken to the United States of America, and much of its aboriginal population was absorbed into the general population-at-large. Its people have lived under oligarchy, plutocracy, dictatorships and massive corruption, with elements of these still strongly entrenched today.
But!
Brazil has buzz...not the shallow buzz of a fashionable moment...but the deep buzz of a population which in spite of -- or perhaps because of -- the tough slog through life they've been allotted by humanity's dregs-in-fine-linen, have chosen not to simply pull themselves along but to lift their voices in song and their bodies in dance...to eat well and converse well and much and to wring the joy out of the day-to-day happenings and small pleasures of life which are so often set aside or ignored in the European, North American, and East Asian nations.
For this Brazil has a genius perhaps unparalleled in all other countries and societies, a genius which thrives alongside peeling paint and holes in the streets and roads, under bad organization by the powers-that-be, both civil and governmental, under a constant rain of societal indignities...
Which is all to say that if you don't know Brazil and you're expecting any semblance of order, progress and light, you will certainly find the light! And the buzz of a people who for generations have responded to privation at many different levels by somehow rising above it all.
Raimundo Sodré, in a conversation ranging through New Orleans and Harlem and the South Side of Chicago ... and Appalachia and Irish villages and Russian shtetls and the unofficial symbol of Brazil's Bahian-born national music (the pandeiro) almost certainly having arrived in Brazil in the hands of Sephardic Jews (including conversos) fleeing the Inquisition, once remarked: "Where there's misery, there's music!"
A pandeirista on the roof. And it's not just music. And it's not just Brazil.
