On December 3, 2021, the New Orleans Jazz Museum debuted Exit Stage Right: Zack Smith’s Festival Portraits. As both a musician and photographer, Zack Smith believes that the world gets smaller as we celebrate our similarities and connect through our traditions and stories. Smith’s mostly large-format film photographs have the ability to bring subject and viewer closer together, and his custom environments foster intimacy. These portraits include the late ChazFest in the Ninth Ward, HIP Fest, Festivals Acadiens et Créoles, the Ponderosa Stomp, and the Voodoo Music + Arts Experience, where he worked with Preservation Hall. The photographs show musicians, music fans, backstage workers, and assorted hangers-on in quiet moments amid the festival chaos. The exhibit will run through 2023.