Tag: Tampa
SPMOP Photo Laureate Exhibition: Jesi Cason: ALT Tampa
On View: April 29 – June 14, 2026
Beneath Tampa Bay’s polished, tourist-facing identity lies a vibrant underground shaped by decades of music, creativity, and subculture. Long considered a global hub for death metal, the region has fostered a network of communities (goths, punks, ravers, and others) who have built a city within a city grounded in self-expression and belonging. With ALT TAMPA, 2025 Photo Laureate Jesi Cason captures this largely unseen world through bold, expressive portraits. Her work honors individuals who embody an alternative history of the region while confronting the growing pressures of development that threaten these spaces. Vivid, expressive, and deeply personal, Cason’s images celebrate the courage to live authentically and to define identity on one’s own terms.
Beth Belaschky: Echoes of the Luminous
On View: March 17–April 26, 2026
In Echoes of the Luminous, Belaschky presents a body of work that inhabits the spaces between memory and dreaming. Working across holograms, excavations, cold wax and gold leaf works, and lightboxes, she extends photography beyond the image, transforming it into a physical and emotional presence to be encountered rather than observed.
Dimpy Bhalotia: Small Lens, Big World
On View: January 15 – April 5, 2026.
This exhibition celebrates the extraordinary potential of the cell-phone as a creative tool, showcasing the poetic, spontaneous, and deeply human moments of photography by the award-winning Indian photographer Dimpy Bhalotia. Internationally acclaimed for her black-and-white street photography, Bhalotia creates strikingly cinematic images that distill movement, emotion, and the serendipity of everyday life. Her work proves that powerful storytelling doesn’t require elaborate equipment, just a sharp eye, impeccable timing, and the camera in your pocket.
25th Annual Members’ Show
On View: January 27 – March 15, 2026
The Florida Museum of Photographic Arts is proud to host the 25th Annual Members’ Exhibition, celebrating the creativity and talent of our photographic community. Our members, ranging from local Tampa Bay artists to photographers across the country, will showcase their latest and most compelling work. This annual exhibition offers members the opportunity to exhibit their photography across a variety of genres. A panel of industry professionals will jury the submissions, awarding prizes in each category. In addition, exhibition attendees will have the chance to vote for a “People’s Choice” favorite.
A Sublime Obsession: Photographs from the Hazlitt Collection
On View: October 9, 2025 – January 11, 2026
A Sublime Obsession: Photographs from the Hazlitt Collection showcases a bold mix of black & white and color photographs drawn from one collector’s deeply personal archive. Featuring standout works by Ansel Adams, Robert Adams, William Eggleston, Joel Sternfeld, Justine Kurland, and many more, the exhibition captures everything from sweeping landscapes to offbeat street scenes and striking portraits. Whether in the tonal precision of silver gelatin prints or the saturated hues of dye transfers, these photographs reveal a collector’s eye attuned to beauty, complexity, and the unexpected moments that make photography unforgettable. This is not just a colletion, it is a passion illustrated through the lens.
963 Hz: The Interstitial Moment between Image and Sound by Chris Leventis
On View: September 9 – October 26, 2025
In 963 Hz: The Interstitial Moment between Image and Sound, interdisciplinary artist Chris Leventis crafts immersive works that blend photography and sound to uncover the unseen and unheard energies of Florida’s swamps. Merging analog and digital techniques, Leventis transforms landscape into layered experience—one that vibrates with memory, mystery, and frequency.
The Soldier’s Lens
On View October 28 – January 25, 2026
Explore “The Soldier’s Lens” at FMoPA, an exhibition featuring powerful photography by active-duty service members, veterans, and their families, opening in October 2025.
Another Weeping Woman: Photographs by Diana Sosnowska
Another Weeping Woman is a cinematic self-portrait series by Diana Sosnowska, winner of FMoPA’s 2024 International Photography Competition. Through stylized, film-inspired scenes, Sosnowska explores the performance of femininity and the societal constructs that shape identity.
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Ric Savid: Darkroom Silver Linings
Ric Savid’s analog black and white portraits invite us to slow down and connect. Raised in a home filled with art and music, as a self-taught photographer, he found early inspiration in the stillness of family portraits on the walls and the solitude of his darkroom, where his focus and concentration became almost meditative. Now, as the Tampa Bay Photo Laureate of 2024, Savid has deepened his commitment to photography as a means of human connection. “This project has ingrained in me how much I enjoy people. This is essential in a world I see as imprisoned by phones, screens, and our unending rushing about”. His portraits are collaborations—spoken or unspoken agreements between photographer and subject, often of strangers, shaped by patience, instinct, and luck. “The best photographs find me—when I’m paying attention”.
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2025 International Photography Competition
This juried group exhibition features winning works from FMoPA’s 2025 International Photography Competition, selected from over 2,500 global submissions. On view July 8 – September 7, 2025.
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Barbara Peacock: American Bedroom
Barbara Peacock’s American Bedroom series offers a unique glimpse into the unguarded lives of individuals, couples, and families revealing the depth of their character, truth, and spirit. Each photograph tells a story of love, struggle, hope, and everyday life. From tidy, minimalist spaces to bedrooms bursting with personality, these images explore the complexities and idiosyncrasies of contemporary American life.
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The Hutterites: In the World but Not of It
For the past 15 years, photographer Tim Smith has immersed himself in the Hutterite community, documenting their lives with sensitivity and respect. This exhibition presents a rare and intimate look at this fascinating group, revealing the beauty and complexity of their communal existence.
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