Adore A-List 2021

VALERIE ESPARZA FRENCH QUARTER PHOTOGRAPHER @nola_val

Describe what you love about what you do. I love photographing this beautiful city! I am not a native and I know what it means to miss New Orleans. I try to capture what people love and/or miss and I love how an image can spark a memory or conversation! What about New Orleans inspires you? Mostly the architecture, landscape, and history. I love the textures of the buildings and trees and when you learn the history it makes it all even more inspiring. Something about New Orleans that can always put you in a good mood. The music and sounds. I can open my door in the French Quarter and hear jazz music in the air, the calliope music from the river, and the church bells. And there is nothing better than being on St. Charles and listening to the streetcars go by!

Favorite snowball stand Plum Street Favorite place to listen to music Street music in the Quarter Favorite place to score things for your home Merchant House Favorite new business Parish Parlor Best book you've read in the past year

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke Favorite drink or cocktail Old Fashioned Best musical concert ever Metallica

What advice would you give your twenty-year-old self? If you've found your passion, great! If not, keep trying new things until you do, it's never too late! Describe what you see as our future. It would be amazing to see the infrastructure of the city fixed and have nice roads and no more boil water advisories or flooding.

42

ADORE • A-LIST 2021