Carlos Detres Photography

06/12/2026

After six weeks of ghosts, perception, and fragile certainties, How to Make a Ghost is coming to a close. Join us for the closing reception at Bywater Art Gallery, LLC (3161 Burgundy Street) in New Orleans on Saturday, June 13.

06/03/2026

While writing about the transition between older work and How to Make a Ghost, I realized the work hadn’t changed subjects but had instead changed methods. What I once saw as separate bodies of work now feels like different approaches to the same investigation.

While writing about the transition between older work and How to Make a Ghost , I realized the work hadn’t changed subjects but had instead changed methods. What I once saw as separate bodies of work now feels like different approaches to the same investigation.

05/25/2026

The old swamp, revived, swelled around me while sheltering in a damp Italian style tomb. I wondered if God made man in His image then it would be light. To me it’s fable but like many experiences, it’s one that refuses to steal away into the void of my consciousness. What if?

05/25/2026

This body of work began 6 months ago. A playful exercise; a doodle refined into an unconventional statement. It is the artifact of a study that for years persisted, sometimes with shame but nevertheless an expression. And now it has a home at — at least for a little while. Thanks to for capturing this quiet moment during closed hours at the gallery before it was unveiled on May 1.

05/22/2026

How to Make a Ghost began with a simple question: how fragile is perception?
These photographs are less about documenting a place and more about what happens when memory, atmosphere, movement, and expectation begin to collapse together. The image shifts between apparition and landscape depending on how long you’re willing to look at it.

From How to Make a Ghost: An Inquiry into the Fragility of Perception by Carlos Detres.
Currently on view at Bywater Art Gallery through June 20.

05/21/2026

How to Make a Ghost is now available at Bywater Art Gallery.

A quiet little haunting on the wall, waiting Friday and Saturday only.

Bywater Art Gallery
Open Fridays + Saturdays
On view through June 20

Come see it in person while it’s still here.

01/08/2026

A fog exhales its first breaths for the co**se of an ancient swamp; a memorial to one who lived long ago slowly slouches into its spectral remains. I walk past ruins under “the indifferent stars above”. Never alone for I am always among ghosts.