McCormick and Calhoun relocated temporarily to Houston during Hurricane Katrina, documenting the state of the refugee shelters while there.
The water shifted the color or cracked the film, creating an unintended artistic effect.
[4] McCormick and Calhoun document the way of life in the African American communities in the Lower Ninth Ward in New Orleans and rural Louisiana.
[6] From the 1980s onward, they documented the African-American men imprisoned at Angola State Penitentiary, collaborating with songwriter Aaron Neville,[7] for a body of work called "Slavery: The Prison Industrial Complex", which has been displayed in their 2014 show at Prospect New Orleans[8] November 3, 2018 – February 10, 2019: "Labor Studies" Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans)[9] Feb 23 – May 28, 2018: "Slavery, the Prison Industrial Complex: Photographs by Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick" Frist Art Museum[10] June 9 – November 22, 2015: All the World's Futures, 56th la Biennale di Venezia in Venice Italy an exhibition curated by Okwui Enwezor.
[12] December 12, 2019: Keynote Lecture, PhotoNola Festival, New Orleans Museum of Art[13] November 6, 2019: "Louisiana Medley: The Social Justice Photography of Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun," Harvard Art Museums[14] September 16, 2016: "Photography and Social Activism" Whitney Museum of Art[15] January 9, 2013: Pratt Photography Lectures, Pratt Institute, New York[16] photosandmore1888