Jonathan Traviesa is a photographer and artist living in New Orleans since the late 1990s. After courses at New Orleans Academy of Fine Art and a degree from the University of New Orleans in 2001, he has had numerous solo and group exhibitions in New Orleans, Philadelphia, Chicago, and New York. In 2005, the Times Picayune voted his Katrina photo-sign installation best art show of the year. He has been teaching Photoshop at NOAFA since 2005. Traviesa is a founding member of The Front gallery and released his first book, “Portraits” with a concurrent exhibition at The Front during October and November of 2009. As part of Photonola, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art will exhibit a selection of his portraits from the book. His work is collected privately around the United States and publicly in New Orleans by the Ogden and the New Orleans Museum of Art.