Photography

A powerful workshop dedicated to study the human figure and how to produce creative images, where concepts, composition and lighting will lead the way to obtain meaningful images. Models, Make Up, Styling and Props will be provided, so each participant can visually approach the body from his /her own vision and perspective. Two 6 hours sessions. Dates: To Be Announced Instructor: Jorge Parra … +

The Miami Street Photography Festival is an international photography festival,  showcasing the best of contemporary Street Photography viewed through the eyes of emerging photographers in this genre.  The goal of the Festival is to establish a global platform for learning through exhibitions, workshops, lectures and other events. A panel of internationally accomplished street photographers will select images to be this year’s MSPF … +

This exhibition celebrates the remarkable life of the 20th century pioneer and trailblazer, Ruth Gruber, born in Brooklyn on September 30, 1911. Gruber became the youngest PhD in the world at age 20, before going on to become an international foreign correspondent and photojournalist. With her boundless empathy and razor sharp intellect, a Hermes typewriter and a camera as her tools, Gruber … +

A visual topography of the urban, subtropical conditions of Miami, reflecting upon these distinct environments as evidence of the cultural and political landscapes of the city. Guerrier, in many ways, plays the role of cultural cartographer, and the images themselves, physically folded, unfolded, and then displayed on the wall, have the look of maps laid out with landmarks noted in painted squares. … +

Silvia Lizama will give a presentation showing how a lifetime of influences has impacted her image making process. She will show different bodies of work, talk about the inspirations behind the work and finally give brief presentation on how she hand colors her black and white photographs. Silvia Lizama was born in Cuba and moved to South Florida in 1960. She received … +

“Twelve Summers” features GroveHouse Artists’ paintings and watercolors from their 12th season of collaboration with the Deering Estate and includes works from the January Affair en Plein Air juried painting event. In “Capturing Brazzdance,” photographer Carlos Di Roberto Martinez documents the choreographic and performative works from Augusto Soledade’s Brazzdance 2016–2017 season. This initiative invites photographers and visual artists to capture the company’s … +

In the Swimming Pool is Maria’s largest series yet, originating in 2014 and continuing to develop to date. Sparked by a hunt for interesting locations, her fascination with the space of public swimming pools contributed to developing her visual style. Sterile, geometric beauty of old pools set the tone for these photographs. Each of them pictures a different pool, usually built in … +

The Wolfsonian Florida International University shines for Summer 2017 with two complementary photography displays delving into the possibilities of facing the open road with camera in hand. In a “then-and-now” balance, North and South: Berenice Abbott’s U.S. Route 1—featuring black-and-white images chronicling her 1954 journey along the American East Coast—will be in dialogue with The Long Road to Now: Digital Photos Inspired … +

Join Leica Lounge on Thursday, September 7, 2017 with photographer Miguel Salas. Miguel will share his experiences from Holi, the festival of color in India, which he photographed in March 2017. Holi is a Hindu festival that marks the arrival of spring and a celebration of fertility, color, and love, as well as the triumph of good versus evil. People from all around the … +

South Beach, 1974-1990: Photographs of a Jewish Community explores South Beach the way it was. During the 1970s and 1980s, highlighted photographers Gay Block, Gary Monroe, Richard Nagler, David Scheinbaum, and Andy Sweet each undertook long-term documentation projects of South Beach, before the neighborhood transformed into today’s world famous tourist and nightlife destination. HistoryMiami Museum will display selections from each of their … +

Taking cues from the powerful images of North and South: Berenice Abbott’s U.S. Route 1 (organized by the Syracuse University Art Collection), thousands of today’s photographers have responded to the call from Instagram forum #JJ Community with a contemporary spin on Abbott’s work. The Long Road to Now: Digital Photos Inspired by Berenice Abbott’s Road Trip presents the top 15 submissions from … +

Photographer Azeez Bakare will give a presentation titled, Drones and 3D: “Outside and In.” He will discuss everything from the art of capturing aerials on the exterior to developing 3D art on the interior and how photography fuels both. Azeez Bakare is a 3D artist, photographer, and videographer who helps firms, agencies, developers, and solopreneurs translate their ideas into high-quality visualization. Spending … +

Taking cues from the powerful images of North and South: Berenice Abbott’s U.S. Route 1, thousands of today’s photographers have responded to the call from Instagram forum #JJ Community with a contemporary spin on Abbott’s work. The Long Road to Now: Digital Photos Inspired by Berenice Abbott’s Road Trip presents the top 15 submissions from The Wolfsonian and #JJ’s global social media … +

CCE holds a conversation with Art historian Aldeide Delgado about Women Photographers in Cuba. It starts a process of recovery of memory and models that contributes to self-knowledge and self-esteem of women as photographers. The rescue in 1853 of the first Cuban woman photographer Encarnacion Iróstegui was the first step for developing of a historiography where the creators could find the visibility … +

Drawing from his personal pantheon of artist heroes, López’s work evokes the powerful imagery of 19th-century master portrait photographers like Nadar (Gaspar Félix Tournachon) and Julia Margaret Cameron. The series exemplifies Lopez’s acute interest in the continuation of formal photographic processes through carbon printing, which produces very beautiful, high-quality images that are rich in pigment and outstanding in visual resolution; a quality … +

In 1967, the Miami Herald published the first edition of Tropic, a weekend magazine. During the early 1990s, one weekly feature, called “Tropical Wildlife: Distinctive Markings of South Florida Species,” captured Tropic’s own personality. The column showcased a random Miamian with a full page photograph and accompanying interview, and captured the collective pulse of South Florida’s inimitable psyche, one spirit at a … +

On Sunday, March 19, 2017 Fotomission and Tropicolor will host the 13th South Beach Photomarathon at the Miami Design Preservation League, an exciting event that is open to all those who enjoy photography. Sign-in: 9:30am Start time: 11:00am Finish Time: 4:00pm Participants will be assigned six topics to photograph on the streets of South Beach over a period of five hours. The … +

Violet isle is a multi-layered portrait of Cuba inspired by the rich color of the soil there that presents a unique, often enigmatic document of a vulnerable land. It combines two photographic visions: Alex Webb’s exploration of street life in Cuba, and Rebecca Norris Webb’s fascination with the collections of animals she discovered there, from tiny zoos and pigeon societies to hand-painted … +

Marina Font’s Mental Map is a photo-based mixed media exhibition that depicts the artist’s continued expression of the female experience. As a next chapter after her series Dark Continents, symbolically illustrating female sexuality in all its capacities and cycles, Mental Maps looks deeper into the psychological and emotional aspects of women. Font embroiders yarn, thread and found textiles onto the photographic surface … +

Invisibles Palpables by artist Luis González Palma questions the idea of emptiness and time in a metaphysical sense. The production aims to express nothingness, as a spiritual search that resembles a portrayal of beauty more in tune with oriental preconceptions. In Invisibles. . . the artist is strongly determined by the necessity to materialize sensitivity and emotion; to conceptualize the utopic space … +

The 7th edition of this annual UM student-curated exhibition highlights 30 compelling photographs from the Museum’s permanent collection. Blasted Allegories considers the way photography resists decisive conclusions. Serendipitous details, unexpected gestures, and strange parallels occur across the photographs featured. Works by Garry Winogrand, Gregory Crewdson, Walker Evans, Eadweard Muybridge, Nan Goldin, Weegee, and others come together as suggestive examples of how photography … +