St. Gabriel, Louisiana 15 - 2000

"St. Gabriel, Louisiana" is a 2000 photograph by American artist Deborah Luster. The image features a young black woman, seated in profile, and captured in a tintype style. The photograph is part of Luster's larger series, "A Louisiana Project", which examines the lives of African-Americans in the state. This work exemplifies Luster's exploration of the use of tintype, a 19th-century photographic process, to explore contemporary social issues. The work evokes a sense of timelessness, linking the past to the present through the visual language of a historical photographic process.