Upcoming DePaul University photo exhibits will examine the impact of the United States’ travel policy to Cuba on Cuban-Americans and their families and provide an affectionate gaze at pre-hurricane New Orleans.

A traveling exhibit, “Love, Loss and Longing: The Impact of U.S. Travel Policy on Cuban-American Families” will be displayed Feb. 1 through March 5 in the first-floor Haber Lounge gallery in the Richardson Library, 2350 N. Kenmore Ave.

Twenty images captured by photographers Juan-Si Gonzalez and the late Nestor Hernandez, Jr. with narratives in English and Spanish, impart the emotional toll that the U.S. travel policy has had on Cuban-Americans and their relatives in Cuba.

Gonzalez is an award-winning, Ohio-based multimedia artist. A Cuban-American, Hernandez, Jr. was working as an exhibits historian at the National Children’s Museum in Washington, D.C. at the time of his death in May 2006.

The exhibition is sponsored by the Center for Latino Research and is free and open to the public during regular library hours. The library’s general hours of operation are: Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. until midnight; Friday, 8 a.m. until 9 p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m. until 9 p.m.; and Sunday, noon until midnight. A closing reception will be held March 2 from 6 p.m. until 8 p.m. in the gallery area.

“NOLA (New Orleans, La.) on My Mind,” a collection of 18 photographs taken by Larry Bennett, a professor of political science at DePaul, will be exhibited Feb. 1 through June 30 in the university’s Center for Black Diaspora, located in the Schmitt Academic Center, 2320 N. Kenmore Ave., Room 551.

The photographs were taken by Bennett during several visits to New Orleans between 1987 and 2004. “It’s a celebration of New Orleans’ people, culture and architecture,” said Bennett, who professes a deep fondness for what he hopes will be New Orleans’ enduring allure.

An opening reception for “NOLA” will be held Feb. 2, from 1 p.m. until 4 p.m. in the Center for Black Diapsora, sponsor of the exhibit. The Center for Black Diaspora is open to the public Monday through Friday, from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m.

For more information about “Love, Loss and Longing” and “NOLA on My Mind,” contact the Center for Latino Research at 773/325-1348 and the Center for Black Diaspora at 773/325-7512, respectively.