Olivia Luz Perillo (b. 1993) is a documentary photographer, filmmaker, collage artist, colorist, and archivist whose work continues on themes of cultural storytelling, regional music, social justice, and ancestral healing between South Louisiana and the American Southwest, as well as capturing the micros and macros of the natural world. Her stylistic approach with color and light in each medium serve as a portal through space and time in repose.

Film production experience includes directing, producing, cinematography, coloring, and editing alongside her creative partner, Syd Horn, under their production company, Honest Art. Their collective work has been well received and recognized internationally with their films Migration (2018) and Intention (2020), with other documentary work and music videos in the works through 2024.

Her work has been supported by Chanel, The New York Times, The Marshall Project, Harper Collins, and Country Roads Magazine, and Honest Art has been supported by Panavision, TV5Monde, Cox Communications, Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities, Lafayette Travel, and Southern Screen.

(portrait by Sara Crochet)

Notable recognitions include:
2023 Louisiana Film Prize - coloring, The Candy Lady

2023 Get Ready Grant from The Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge

2023 ArtSpark Grant from the Acadiana Center for the Arts and Lafayette Economic Development Authority - post-production, Boscoyo Fleaux

2023 ArtSpark Grant from the Acadiana Center for the Arts and Lafayette Economic Development Authority - producing, Traitement

2022 Featured artist in the Acadiana Center for the Arts spring fundraiser

2019 Panavision New Filmmaker’s Grant - directing + producing, Intention

2019 CREATELouisiana French Culture Film Grant - directing + producing, Intention

portraits of @bruisey_peets at sunrise on the bayou teche in arnaudville last january for the newly released album, scapegoat potion :: sounds like the best kind of psychedelic southern queer anti-capitalist swamp pop art if there ever was such a gen
some favorites from the texas hill country last last weekend : bluebonnets, cows, cosmos, portals in and around san antone + fredericksburg + gatesville
current feature in @apmagazine : second press moment published this month from an interview I did back in december encompassing my career thus far, including film work over the years with my best friend @sydhorn.new under @honestart.co this week act
current feature in @acadiana_lifestyle on my collage work + photography which isn’t quite my current day job, though an area I’ll forever be working within and expanding lots of gratitude to @andrewcomer5 for such eloquent writing on my
continued transmutation / solar eclipse totality from a rural texas bluebonnet cow pasture : double exposure composite
◑ last month lights / recalibrations mostly in the country : azalea season, equinox moon + sunlight, violets, camellias, arnaudville bayou teche, music moment with syd
catching up on sharing some favorite portraits with my dear new friend @drunita, a franco-manitoban / red river métis singer-songwriter, who I’m so grateful to have collaborated with in louisiana last november following her incredible el
@intention.film will be screening at the @nationalparkservice acadian cultural center in lafayette this friday at 7pm followed by a q&a with the filmmakers + women in the film in honor of women’s history month the screening is free - looki
true legends never die dege legg, y’all I really got to know dege upon working with him in mid 2022 with @sydhorn.new - he bought us a great dinner at bonefish for our first meeting, we were just wanting to potentially interview him with a fo
maria valdiviezo ochoa-gándara : belated post for la hefa / aquarian queen who I had the honor of spending her 93rd birthday with last month out west we celebrated a couple days after her party watching the creedence documentary together - he
western self portraits, forever always half mentally in my element : on the ground / in the sky
february desert collection continued : same saguaro different sky, xalychidom piipaash - ‘people who live toward the water’ - on salt river pima-maricopa reservation, grandma asking to wear my navajo ring of the universe ft. her chicharro
jupiter blessing / moon held with presence : double exposure composite love letter from the sonoran desert on a mardi gras day
favorite earth gradients last week and two weeks before : interdimensional transit between houston + phoenix western geotags : santa teresa / peloncillo mountains / zuni reservation / laguna pueblo / aravaipa canyon

Let’s be in touch : message here for all inquiries + commissions + prints.

olivia luz perillo / @olivialight

based in and around lafayette, louisiana, usa

direct email: olivialuzperillo@gmail.com

film production: honestartproductions@gmail.com

honestartproductions.com : @honestart.co