Welcome to the South Florida Chapter of the American Society of Media Photographers "Find Us Here" Annual Celebration of Fine Art Photography

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TWO SHOWS! TWO OPENINGS!

November 24th and December 3rd!

Both at 7:00 PM

Did you know that some of America's finest fine art photographers are members of the American Society of Media Photographers South Florida chapter (ASMP)? They represent every conceivable genre of fine art photography, from the current trend of creating a world before the lens that has been carefully staged and lighted (which could easily be argued is where it all began) through the skillful art of waiting patiently for that special split-second when time and light come together in the Everglades or an alley in Liberty City to create something wholly new and unexpected to the eye.

This year's annual show "Find Us Here" will showcase some of the best fine art photography by its members. The show will run from November 24th through December 10th at the Luna Star Gallery in North Miami across from MOCA. The attached picture "Bells" by Juan Manuel Garcia is an example of the work that will appear in this show.

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"I call it Bells," Garcia says, "because it seems like the 3 bells that are always in the churches in little towns in Colombia. It took us 2 weeks to shoot because we were looking for different poses from the models. By the time this picture was taken, the tube became permanently curved from the models' weight."

Another example of our member's work is a picture from Aaron Ansarov's 1:1 Project.

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"No makeup," Ansarov says. "No corrections. Just a face, a macro lens and an invasion of personal space. Each image is taken at a 1 to 1 (1:1) ratio at about 3 inches away from the subject. Scanning across the contours of the face the camera will capture all the hidden, unseen and unrevealed. The total images will then be placed together. The montage will create the face again, but in a larger than life perspective.The final result will be a detailed face like no other in excess of 12 feet tall and able to be viewed close up without loss of detail. In essence a viewer will be able to walk up to a display and count pores on the skin. This project will explore the many diverse faces in our world through ethnicity, age and gender."

To see more great ASMP/SoFla fine art photographs up close and personal, please consider stopping by the Luna Star Gallery in North Miami between November 24th and December 10th. All prints come framed and ready for sale with a third of the price going to charity.

"Find Us Here"
a Fine Art Photo Celebration
by
the South Florida Chapter of the ASMP
November 24th to December 10th 2008
at the
Luna Star Art Gallery
775 NE 125th Street N. Miami 33161
(across from MOCA)

For more information, please contact:
Dennie Cody
Exhibit Chairman
Member of the Board
ASMP/SoFla
305) 666-0247
dcdk@codyphoto.com

Judges for the show were:

J. Tomas Lopez Mr. Lopez has degrees in Psychology and Philosophy from Fordham University, a Master of Media Arts in Film and Video and a Master of Fine Arts in Photography and Modernist Theory from the University of South Florida. He has been awarded the Florida Individual Artist Grant, the Cintas Foundation Fellowship, and the NEA Award in the Visual Arts as well as other national and international fellowships. He is nationally and internationally known for his large scale digital prints ranging from underwater photographs of the nude figure to politically charged iconic flags. Professor Lopez has been showcased in over one hundred seventy group exhibitions and thirty solo exhibitions. His work is included in many permanent collections: The Smithsonian Institution, National Gallery of American Art, La Biblioteque Nationale de France (in Paris), The International Museum of Photography, and many museums, public and private collections and just this year this portfolio of The Metro Series has been added to the permanent collection at the Library of Congress in Washington DC. His work has been exhibited across the United States, Europe, China, Japan and in numerous publications. He has been with the University of Miami since 1994 where he lives and works with his wife Carol and his cat Leo and dog Stella. He is currently featured in the university's quarterly publication Miami which can be read here.

Sara Rytteke's awards and honors include the 2006 Photography Fellowship sponsored by Houston Center for Photography, the 2002 Fellowship Award from Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, The Photo Review Award in 1998, The Digital Fine Arts Award from The Print Center in Philadelphia in 2000 and Kronobergsläns Landstings Culture Stipend, Sweden in 1994. Sara Rytteker has participated in over fifty exhibitions in locations such as Eskilstuna, Söderköping, Växjö, and Skellefteå in Sweden; Paris, France as well as Tempe, AZ, Miami, FL, St. Louis, MO, Chicago, IL, Indianapolis, IN, Philadelphia, PA, New York, N.Y, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio, TX.

Darryl Strawser has extended the creative and technical artistry of photography to students from around the world for almost ten years as Director of Photography at the Miami Ad School. For over twenty-two years, Mr. Strawser has developed a reputation as a photographer of great vision, particularly for focusing on photojournalism, editorial, and fine art imagery. Darryl Strawser Inc, Portfolio Studios and team continue to create and sell a wide range of imagery internationally.