How to photograph a subculture.
Akasha Rabut uses her lens to capture the people that give life to New Orleans
In 2010, photographer Akasha Rabut left California for New Orleans. It had been five years since the devastating impact of Hurricane Katrina and the city was still pulling itself back together. Having grown up in a “super creative” household – her mum was an airbrush artist and clothing designer and her dad was a musician – curiosity was always encouraged. She moved between California and Hawaii in her teens and it was the latter where she discovered a love for the camera. She had joined her school’s yearbook team and was assigned the task of documenting the state’s paradisal beaches. When she eventually settled back in California, Rabut signed up for photography classes and spiralled into an obsession with the darkroom, developing images that she took of her punk and skater friends.
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