Documenting The Panama Canal Expansion, One Photo At A Time
When the Panama Canal expansion was completed over the summer, tens of thousands of Panamanians celebrated the accomplishment at a ceremony. The expansion represented economic opportunities for Panama...
View ArticleLittle Haiti, A Muse For YoungArts Photography Finalists
A group of young photographers from around the country huddled outside the Little Haiti Cultural Center this week listening to Carl Juste, a Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist for the Miami Herald....
View ArticleThe Colombian Pacific On Display In Coral Gables
I’m looking at a photograph of a shoreline on the wall at the opening reception of "Potente" through my smartphone. Four little white dots converge in the center and all of a sudden the water begins to...
View ArticleThe Big Picture: How Food Photos Have Told Our Story Over The Decades
Photography documents life — and food, whether in the fore or background, seems to always be in the picture. The two intersect in a new book, Feast for the Eyes , written by photography curator Susan...
View ArticleWilliam Eggleston's Music, Much Like His Photography, Thrives Off Ambiguity
In the 1970s, William Eggleston shocked the New York art world when the Museum of Modern Art exhibited his color photographs (Until then, most serious photography had been black and white). Eggleston's...
View ArticleBold Beauty Project: An Invitation To Really See Women With Disabilities
Shelly Baer was working with an organization that supports people with disabilities when somebody suggested making a fundraising calendar: nudes of women with disabilities.
View ArticlePhoto Exhibit Documents Gould's Barbecue Street Vendors
"The Unvoiced Community: Barbecue Men and Women of Goulds" is a photo exhibit that explores barbecue culture in the streets of South Miami-Dade County. The exhibit celebrates local entrepreneurs who...
View ArticleReduced Funding For The Arts, Homelessness and A Floating Art Exhibit
Jaye Abbate is the CEO of ArtServe, a non-profit arts incubator that supports artists and cultural organizations in Broward County. Beth Clark is the CEO of Young Singers of the Palm Beaches. Grant...
View ArticleObama Photographer Uses 'Shade' To Contrast Presidents, Political Landscapes
The images of official White House photographers have always been shared widely. What made Pete Souza's tenure with the Obama White House different was that social media — and especially Instagram,...
View ArticleFamily Inspires This Photographer To Capture His Miami Community
Photographer Terence Price II grew up at his grandparents' house in Miami Gardens. He was given his first film camera as a teen, and has been capturing the lives of people in his neighborhood ever...
View ArticleNew Exhibition Captures Key West Liveaboard Boating Community
Key West photographer Mark Hedden has long been fascinated by the folks living on boats near Key West's shores, nicknamed the "liveaboards." In 2017 Mark was awarded a Knight Arts Challenge Grant to...
View ArticleNew Photo Show Offers View Of Key West's Historically Black Neighborhood...
As Key West's housing market caters more and more to the second home set, there's a new effort to preserve some of the island's multicultural history.
View Article'Cracked Not Broken' Formerly Incarcerated Women Are Captured In Photo Exhibit
Powerful photographs revealing the lives of 25 women post-incarceration are on display at the Coral Gables Museum until Sept. 23. The exhibition, "The Compassion Project," focuses on women who...
View ArticleMiami Photo Exhibit Takes Us Through Journey Of Havana, Cuban Neighborhoods
Miami Herald photographer Carl Juste has been capturing life in Cuba for 30 years, on assignment and on his own time. He, along with a group of award-winning photographers from Miami and Washington,...
View ArticleFor This Photographer, Young People 'Had Nothing On Elderly People' In...
The photographer Gary Monroe was in his early 20s when he decided he was going to go out and shoot photos in his neighborhood just about every day. He was in college in Tampa when it dawned on him that...
View ArticleHow Robert Frank's Vision Influenced And Inspired Generations Of Photographers
In an era when photographs are produced by the hundreds of thousands every second, the death of photographer and filmmaker Robert Frank on Monday presents an opportunity: not only to mourn him, but to...
View Article'Rescuers' Tells In Images The Story of Those Who Risked Their Lives To Save...
This story was updated on Nov. 8, 2019 to correct some factual errors. Heroes can have different faces. They can be teachers, diplomats, families that live routine lives until extreme circumstances...
View Article'Transcending Love:' New Photo Exhibit In Wilton Manors Highlights...
A new photography exhibit at the Stonewall National Museum & Archives in Wilton Manors aims to give transgender and non-binary couples a platform to tell their stories and show them living their...
View Article'FloodZone' Captures South Florida's 'Climate Anxiety' In Unexpected Ways
Since 2016, Russian-American photographer Anastasia Samoylova has been capturing images of sea-level rise in South Florida in quiet — and often surprising — ways.
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