Monique Michelle Verdin

Monique Michelle Verdin is a native daughter of southeast Louisiana. Her intimate documentation of the Mississippi River Delta’s indigenous Houma nation exposes the complex interconnectedness of environment, economics, culture, climate and change. Her photography has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and is included in The Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous, Yale University Press (2008), and Nonesuch Records’ Habitat for Humanity benefit album Our New Orleans (2005). She received her bachelors degree in Mass Communication at Loyola University in New Orleans. My Louisiana Love is her first documentary film.