Carlos Detres is a New Orleans–based artist working primarily in photography.

Carlos Detres is a New Orleans–based photographic artist who has been making work since 2010. His practice moves between two distinct periods. Earlier work was constructed, theatrical, and surreal. His more recent photography is quieter and observational — predominantly black and white, concerned with presence, memory, nature, and the traces people leave behind.

His current project, How to Make a Ghost, considers how incomplete memory, uncertainty, and fragmented experience create the hauntings that follow us through life — not as a literal ghost story, but as a way of looking at how perception and doubt shape what we carry forward. The project is developing into a book.

His work has been exhibited in galleries across the United States and is held in private collections.

Field Notes is where he keeps observations, images in progress, and fragments of ideas as the work develops.