Carlos Detres is a New Orleans–based photographer and artist. His work explores perception, memory, traces, and the ways people construct meaning from incomplete information.

Working across photographs, books, and installations, he is interested in what remains after contact: the marks left by time, experience, nature, and human presence. Recent projects investigate how images are completed by the viewer and how ambiguity, absence, and suggestion can function as forms of evidence rather than uncertainty.

His work has been exhibited in galleries, collected internationally, and recognized through awards and publications.

Field Notes documents the ongoing observations, experiments, and questions that inform the work.