Miles B. Jordan is a New Orleans–based photographer and visual anthropologist whose work explores environmental change, cultural memory, and the quiet details of everyday life. Working across digital, analog, and full-spectrum infrared photography, his images examine how landscapes and communities transform over time—often revealing stories embedded in ordinary places, overlooked objects, and fleeting moments.
Jordan’s work frequently engages themes of resilience, belonging, and cultural continuity. His long-term projects range from Shrouded Light, an infrared exploration of landscapes shaped by climate change, to 504-907, a visual dialogue between Southern Louisiana and Interior Alaska that reflects on place, memory, and shared experiences across distant regions. His ongoing portrait project, The Yellow Chair Series, documents the Katrina Generation of New Orleanians and their chosen families, tracing how identity and community evolve in the decades following the storm.
Originally from New Orleans, Jordan holds an MFA in Photography from the University of Alaska Fairbanks and is currently pursuing a PhD in Anthropology at Louisiana State University. His interdisciplinary practice combines photography, ethnography, and archival research to create visual records of cultural life in places shaped by environmental and social change.
Jordan’s work has been exhibited nationally in museums and galleries including the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the Haggin Museum, and the Brownsville Museum of Fine Art. Through both artistic practice and academic research, he seeks to document the lived textures of communities navigating transformation while preserving the cultural histories that define them. Jordan has published academic articles about his work as well, in Anthropology and Humanism.