
On view March 4 – April 19, 2024.
Opening Reception: April 11, 2024 | 6:00 PM
Location: Miami Beach Visual Arts Gallery
Since 1975, at least two thousand photographs by FIU students accumulated in a closet in the VH111 photo lab at the MMC campus. Some of these mostly 8×10 inch black and white photographs were in this informal archive because photography instructors requested copies of them as excellent examples of how something looks photographed. Many were just left behind. Over the years, photography students poured over them for inspiration and ideas. “Wow! Look at this one!” Three or four hundred of them are extraordinary in the humblest of ways.
The archival prints you see are from scans of the original photographs.
It is important to acknowledge the contributions of Lissette Schaeffler who has done a phenomenal job scanning the originals and supervised all production of works you see here. Natalie Wellman and Alex Dominguez have done wonderful work producing the prints in the FIU studios, and JaQuan Turner and Sophia Cortes spent many hours fixing them in Photoshop to make these reproductions flawless. This superb quality of these prints is the product of their efforts and I thank them for making it possible.
FIU Photography Faculty
Carlos Causo
Theresa Diehl
Alex Del Canto
Rolando Dal Pazzo
Ed Del Valle
Priscilla Forthman
Tony Galardi
Jahaira Galvez
Mirta Gomez
Miles Jermanovich
Jack Lyle
Peter McGrath
Bill Maguire
Gary Monroe
Peggy Nolan
Tony Mendoza
Patti Reiff
Lisette Schaeffler
John Szarkowski