New Orleans Photographer author and photograper Roy F. Guste Jr.


TJ Fisher (tjfisher.com) is a distinctive French Quarter "force of personality," influenced and inspired by the city's unique persona and vivid character. The Vieux Carré Old Square is the historic French Quarter of New Orleans. Applying her signature path-breaking principles of unconventional and superabundant interior design, French Quarter-style, Fisher brings the inventive and brash heart, soul and eye of an avant-garde filmmaker/set designer to the adventurous art of panoramic home décor — Vieux Carré Chic.

In conjunction with Fisher's distinct personal passion and flair for astonishing high-octane interior decorating and space planning, combined with her avocation of home remodeling projects and the restoration of historic properties, she is a member of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) and the Interior Design Society (IDS), and holds a certified general contractor's license.

A theatrical documentatrist, a guild writer/producer/director with a rare gift for transforming the elements of design into a swirling collage of creativity, Fisher divides her time between the Vieux Carré and Palm Beach, Florida. Although a native Floridian, the one-and-only home of her heart is Louisiana. Fisher says there is no place, spirit or people anywhere like her adopted hometown, New Orleans.

She is the award-winning author of Orleans Embrace, the narrative portion of the 388-page commemorative edition The Secret Gardens of the Vieux Carré: The Historic French Quarter of New Orleans, a hauntingly beautiful and potent memoir of New Orleans, a compelling story and pictorial combined. She also authored the critically acclaimed work Hearsay From Heaven and Hades: Secrets of Sinners and Saints — a French Quarter lifestyle manual of provocative truisms and sayings.
Fisher has a three-book deal with Morgana Press of New Orleans.


Skip Bolen (skipbolen.com), a native Louisianian who lives in New Orleans, has been "capturing moments" with his camera since age 8. Heralded for his profound black and white photography of both famed and unknown jazz musicians on and off stage, Bolen's natural-light images are infused with a rare and magical spontaneous intensity, a raw energy and collaborative spirit seldom documented on film. He remains forever in pursuit of impromptu split seconds that display the heart and soul of what is Jazz.

Bolen is also known for his nostalgic take on the depth, emotions and richness of historic architectural imagery, of classic vintage signs, landmarks and notable scenes in New York, Hollywood and New Orleans. Masterful with a variety of cameras, Bolen, equally accomplished at commercial and interior design photography, is frequently called upon to photograph celebrities and events for wire services. He previously worked with Condé Nast Publications.

Bolen's acclaimed portfolio of portraits of well-known and rising sensation jazz artists numbers in the tens of thousands, with several hundred images soon to be introduced in book form. A favorite of collectors, his work, in both media and advertising, is exhibited at a variety of galleries. Bolen was the stills photographer for K-Ville, the Fox Network television series filmed onsite in New Orleans.


New Orleans author TJ Fisher


Vieux Carre Chic: The Art of Overindulgent Home Decor
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