LEICA LOUNGE: Gallery Reception with Peter Turnley - Friday, February 6th 7:00 - 9:30 PM

French Kiss, A Love Letter to Paris  by Peter Turnley Gallery Reception   |    Friday, February 6th at 7:00 - 9:30 PM   |   RSVP Join us next Friday, February 6th for a gallery opening, presentation and book signing by renowned photographer Peter Turnley. The new gallery exhibit, which will be on display at Leica Store Miami from February 2nd through April 29th, contains images from Turnley's book, French Kiss - A Love Letter to Paris, which compiles forty years of beautiful black and white photographs of moments of love in Paris. Leica Master Class Weekend    |   February 6th - 8th   |   Register Scheduled to coincide with his gallery reception, Peter Turnley will be leading a weekend workshop in Miami. Turnley will guide participants through a very exciting weekend of visual presentation, lecture and discussion as well as a hands on shooting session. To learn more and register, click here. Reserve your copy of French Kiss, A Love Letter to Paris today!  Shop now.

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CUBA PHOTOS: "Cuba 2012 - Santiago to Cienfuegos" by Robert Karafel at Pitman Photo

Robert Karakul by Mark Mann

Title: "Cuba 2012 - Santiago to Cienfuegos"

Where: Pitman Photo, 13911 South Dixie Highway, Miami (Palmetto Bay), Florida (in their training room/gallery)

When: Closing Reception January 31st, 2015, from 2 - 4 pm

Information: This exhibit of color photographs by Robert Karafel were taken in April 2012 during the first week of a two week humanitarian mission trip across Cuba.
The 99 photographs displayed were taken in eastern and central Cuba in the towns of Santiago de Cuba, El Cobre, Bayamo, Camaguey, Sancti Spiritus, Trinidad and Cienfuegos.  In April 2014 this photographer had an exhibit of color photographs at Pitman from Havana and the Vinales Valley.

PHOTOS: The Colonial Churches of Santiago de Cuba with Carlos Domenech

About the Exhibit   The Colonial Churches of Santiago de Cuba photographs by Carlos Domenech  on view February 6-22, 2015 On October 25, 2012, Hurricane Sandy swept north across the Caribbean, pounding Santiago de Cuba, and parking itself over the tattered, time worn and vulnerable city causing widespread devastation on the Island's original Colonial Capitol. Santiago De Cuba is home to a constellation of Spanish Colonial churches from the 17th and 18th century, now in desperate need of restoration. Monsignor Dionisio Garcia-Ibanez, the archbishop of Santiago, began almost immediately, without government assistance, to reconstruct this extraordinary artifacts. Beginning with the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Assumption, a structure built and rebuilt in place for nearly 500 years, he collaborated with European and American Universities, while assembling and training a school of craftsmen to complete the ambitious work, now underway. This photographic series was documented by Carlos Domenech in 2013. This marked Domenech's first return to Cuba since leaving the island in 1966. His photographic approach documents the unfortunate present conditions of these historic buildings and the restoration efforts underway. Introduction by: Jorge L. Hernandez, AIA, Professor, University of Miami School of Architecture Sponsored by: Ana Laura Arellano Idigital Bacardi

CUBA PHOTOS: Marcus Jovaisa - Unseen Cuba at Books & Books

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 The bestselling author of Unseen Lithuania and other aerial photography guides covering Belize, Cancún and the Yucatán, Lithuanian aerial photographer and publisher Marius Jovaisa invites you on an unprecedented photographic journey that captures the breathtaking vistas of Cuba as never seen before. As the first artist to receive permission from the Cuban Government to fly over the country and photograph it, he brings you extraordinary panoramas taken from an ultralight aircraft. Jovaisa canvasses the island, from the fertile valleys of Pinar del Río in the west to the historic city of Baracoa in the east, where Columbus landed. Explore ancient villages, idyllic beaches, cities frozen in time and picturesque La Habana. Celebrate the tropical exuberance, bucolic chard and natural grandeur that characterize the largest island of the Caribbean s Greater Antilles. Discover Unseen Cuba.

About the Photographer: 

Marius Jovaisa is a photographer, publisher, entrepreneur and founder of publishing house Unseen Pictures. Born in Vilnius, Lithuania in 1973, he is the author of 5 large-format aerial photography books: Unseen Lithuania (2008), Heavenly Belize (2010), Magic Cancun & Riviera Maya (2011), Heavenly Yucatan (2012 and Unseen Cuba. World-famous for his distinct style of aerial photography, Jovaisahas been granted permission to fly over and take pictures of destinations that have never before been accessible to photographers. His exhibitions have been displayed in more than 20 countries in Europe, Asia and the Americas. 

Location: 

265 Aragon Ave

Coral Gables, Florida

33134-5008

LEICA LOUNGE: with Eric Newton | Thurs, January 8, 2015 | 7pm - 8:30pm

‘Home-grown’ Pulitzer Prize Photographs

Michel duCille won the 1988 Feature Photography Pulitzer for a photo essay
on crack cocaine addicts in a Miami housing project 

Associated Press photographer Alan Diaz won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography for his photograph of the United States Border Patrol's BORTAC team's seizure of Elian Gonzalez

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Join us in the Leica Lounge on Thursday, January 8, 2015 with Eric Newton. Eric will be talking about 'Home Grown' Pulitzer Prize photographs and the photographers who created them. 

‘Home-grown’ Pulitzer Prize Photographs

A passport is not a Pulitzer. In other words, being in a war zone on the other side of the world is not a guarantee you’ll get great photographs. Prize-winning photos are all around us, often coming suddenly and captured only by those who are ready for them.

On the 25th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake, author and journalist Eric Newton tells the story behind the Pulitzer Prize-winning photos taken of the “World Series quake” by the staff of the Oakland Tribune. How do they hold up? Are they history? Art? Both? How do local news Pulitzers compare with the ones from faraway events?

Newton, co-author of Capture The Moment: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs, will lead a visual tour of the “home-grown” Pulitzer photographs. Some are born in the immediacy of a shocking news event, from the rubble of Florida hurricanes to firefighters at the World Trade Center; others are dramatic eyewitness accounts, such as the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald. Still other photographers linger, documenting what happens after the news, and some are the completely unexpected result of a drive in the country.

Many of the issues faced by “home-grown” Pulitzer-winners are identical to those faced by their globe-trotting colleagues: how much risk should they take? … how do they shoot in a hurry? … can they win the trust of subjects? … did they know what they had when they got it? But other issues are uniquely local, such as the welfare of the photographer’s own families. 

Leica Lounge is a lecture series hosted by Leica Store Miami which features presentations by local members of the photography community. Held monthly, these free events are designed to create and inspire the local photography community through sharing images and exchanging ideas.

The Leica Lounge is kindly sponsored by Brooklyn Brewery. Participants will be able to sample some of their amazing craft beers during the event. Brooklyn Brewery is one of the largest craft breweries in the United States, producing a portfolio of traditional and experimental beers sure to impress any beer drinker.

About Eric:

Eric Newton is senior advisor to the president at a leading national funder of journalism programs, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation of Miami. As a program director and vice president during his first decade at Knight, he helped build the journalism and media innovation program from a department of one into a team of seven, overseeing the development of more than $300 million in grants.

Previously, Newton was founding managing editor of the Newseum, leading the content team at the world’s first museum of news. He started at California newspapers. As city editor, assistant managing editor and managing editor of the Oakland Tribune under Bob and Nancy Maynard, he helped the paper win more than 150 awards, including a Pulitzer Prize. 

His most popular books are “Searchlights and Sunglasses: Field Notes From the Digital Age of Journalism,” “Crusaders, Scoundrels, Journalists: The Newseum’s Most Intriguing Newspeople” and “Capture the Moment: The Pulitzer Prize Photographs.” A distinguished alumnus of San Francisco State University (BA in journalism), he was a Rotary International Scholar at the University of Birmingham, England (MA in international studies). He has taught journalism at all levels and is the co-founder of the First Amendment Project, a nonprofit that provides legal services on free speech and free press issues.

Newton shared a Peabody Award for Link TV’s “Mosaic: World News From the Middle East.” He won the Reddick Award at the University of Texas for service to the field of communications, the Radio Television Digital News Foundation First Amendment Award for Knight Foundation’s work to create Sunshine Week and the Markoff Award from the University of California Berkeley for Knight’s support of investigative reporting.