Join us for our annual ICP Holiday Market! Finish your holiday shopping with local vendors and have your portrait made by legendary photographer Polo Silk while visiting our exhibitions: Graciela Iturbide: Serious Play, Naima Green: Instead, I spin fantasies, and Sergio Larrain: Wanderings.
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About Polo Silk
For over 30 years Selwhyn Sthaddeus “Polo Silk” Terrell has used his camera to capture New Orleans nightlife, hip hop and bounce culture, Mardi Gras Indian traditions, and Social Aid and Pleasure Clubs. His work is an intimate record of Black New Orleanians--their music and clothing, their joy and humor, and their ways of coming together to celebrate and grieve.
His practice has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Antenna in 2017 (New Orleans); the New Orleans Jazz Museum in 2022; the New Orleans Museum of Art in 2022; Sibyl Gallery in 2025 (New Orleans); in a long term installation at the legendary historic Dew Drop Inn (New Orleans); and in a permanent installation at the Sportsman's Corner Bar and Daiquiri Shop ongoing since 2015 (New Orleans). His photographs have been featured in group exhibitions such as Where They At: New Orleans Bounce and Hip Hop at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans); Legacy of Central City at the Tulane University Small Center for Collaborative Design (New Orleans); Called to the Camera: Black American Studio Photographers at the New Orleans Museum of Art; Gestures of Refusal: Black Photography and Visual Culture at the New Orleans Contemporary Arts Center; and Southern Democratic curated by Phillip March Jones at the Carnegie Museum of Art for the 2024 FotoFocus Biennial in Cincinnati. Polo Silk's practice has been featured in The Smithsonian Anthology of Hip Hop and Rap published in 2021 by the National Museum of African American History and Culture; The Black Utopia: Volume 1; New Orleans & the World: 1718-2018 Tricentennial Anthology; Shine: The Visual Economy of Light in African Diasporic Aesthetic Practice by Krista Thompson published in 2015 by Duke University Press; Cashew Co. Journal Volume 2: New Orleans; Documenting the Nameplate published in 2022 by Clarkson Potter; Artforum, and Burnaway among others. He has published two books of his photography, Pop That Thang and Polo Silk Presents: Cash Money Records from the '99-2000. He collaborated with Foot Locker and Reebok on the 3:AM Series custom shoes and apparel, with Jordan Brand on the Stunting + Shining Campaign for the 2017 NBA All Stars Game, with Paper Planes Apparel on the #WhereImFrom NOLA Capsule Collection, and on the Street Corner campaign for Denim Tears in 2025. His photographs can be found in the permanent collections of the New Orleans Museum of Art and the Historic New Orleans Collection.
Image credits: © Jenna Bascom for ICP, © Polo Silk
