{"version":"https://jsonfeed.org/version/1","title":"St. Pete Month of Photography","home_page_url":"https://spmop.org","description":"St. Pete Month of Photography","author":{"name":"St. Pete Month of Photography"},"items":[{"id":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/wmnf-interview-with-spmop-founder-ric-savid","html_content":"

WMNF interviewed SPMOP Founder and Executive Director and Ric Savid. Click the photo for the full interview.

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St. Petersburg Month of Photography’s 2024 Photo Laureate, Ric Savid, debuted his solo exhibition “Darkroom Silver Linings.\" Click the photo to learn more.

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Saint Petersburg Month of Photography Returns for its Third Edition in May 2025 Celebrating the Art of Photography Across Tampa Bay. Click the photo for the full article.

","url":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/spmop-catalyst-feature","title":"SPMOP Catalyst Feature","summary":"Saint Petersburg Month of Photography Returns for its Third Edition in May 2025 Celebrating the Art of Photography Across Tampa Bay. Click the photo for the full article.","date_modified":"2025-04-19T03:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/spmop-photocom-feature","html_content":"

In 2025, SPMOP will select its third Photo Laureate, who will have the honor to document and represent Tampa Bay for one year. Click the photo for the full article.

","url":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/spmop-photocom-feature","title":"SPMOP Photo.com Feature","summary":" In 2025, SPMOP will select its third Photo Laureate, who will have the honor to document and represent Tampa Bay for one year. Click the photo for the full article.","date_modified":"2025-03-17T18:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-bi-weekly-update-6-1","html_content":"

I was waiting to hear a photographer speak via zoom at the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts in Ybor City. She was to start at six o'clock that evening. Hungry, with 15 minutes to go, I slipped out and walked toward th...

","url":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-bi-weekly-update-6-1","title":"Photo Laureate Bi-Weekly Update #6","summary":"I was waiting to hear a photographer speak via zoom at the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts in Ybor City. She was to start at six o'clock that evening. Hungry, with 15 minutes to go, I slipped out and walked toward th...","date_modified":"2025-03-14T16:10:55Z"},{"id":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/ric-savid-featured-in-the-artisan","html_content":"

Our previous Photo Laureate Thomas Sayers Ellis interviewed our current Photo Laureate Ric Savid for the Artisan Magazine. Read the full article here, or grab a physical copy at your local museum or gallery!

","url":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/ric-savid-featured-in-the-artisan","title":"Ric Savid featured in the Artisan","summary":" Our previous Photo Laureate Thomas Sayers Ellis interviewed our current Photo Laureate Ric Savid for the Artisan Magazine. Read the full article here, or grab a physical copy at your local museum or gallery! ","date_modified":"2025-03-13T19:16:26Z"},{"id":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-update-5","html_content":"

Last July, I got my wife's Tacoma truck detailed. Four years since a wash or a vacuum! I found Christopher on Facebook and booked an appointment, texting him in his native Filipino dialect just for the hell of it.

","url":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-update-5","title":"Photo Laureate Update #5","summary":"Last July, I got my wife's Tacoma truck detailed. Four years since a wash or a vacuum! I found Christopher on Facebook and booked an appointment, texting him in his native Filipino dialect just for the hell of it.","date_modified":"2025-02-13T16:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-update-4","html_content":"

I was sitting outside the Wayward Goose bar on M.L.K. Jr. Street in St. Petersburg, a Leica M6 hanging around my neck, when a young man drinking beer at another table approached my wife and me, clearly excited about the ...

","url":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-update-4","title":"Photo Laureate Update #4","summary":"I was sitting outside the Wayward Goose bar on M.L.K. Jr. Street in St. Petersburg, a Leica M6 hanging around my neck, when a young man drinking beer at another table approached my wife and me, clearly excited about the ...","date_modified":"2025-01-17T16:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-update-3","html_content":"

Bill Berry was listed as a world-class juggler, a yoga instructor, and a Guinness record holder for sword swallowing on the internet. I got his number. He texted that he was open to being photographed.  He said he had a ...

","url":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-update-3","title":"Photo Laureate Update #3","summary":"Bill Berry was listed as a world-class juggler, a yoga instructor, and a Guinness record holder for sword swallowing on the internet. I got his number. He texted that he was open to being photographed.  He said he had a ...","date_modified":"2024-12-19T16:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/spmop-thomas-sayers-ellis-featured-in-forum-magazine","html_content":"

Thomas Sayers Ellis was featured in the Fall Issue (page 55) of Forum Magazine - Florida Humanities

","url":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/spmop-thomas-sayers-ellis-featured-in-forum-magazine","title":"SPMOP & Thomas Sayers Ellis featured in Forum Magazine","summary":"Thomas Sayers Ellis was featured in the Fall Issue (page 55) of Forum Magazine - Florida Humanities","date_modified":"2024-11-14T16:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-monthly-update-2","html_content":"

Two days after hurricane Helene I crossed the causeway onto Gulf Boulevard. Traffic was sparse on the sand-covered, two-lane road. Helene’s deluge was apparent: mounds of crumpled drywall, furniture and appliances lined ...

","url":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-monthly-update-2","title":"Photo Laureate Monthly Update #2","summary":"Two days after hurricane Helene I crossed the causeway onto Gulf Boulevard. Traffic was sparse on the sand-covered, two-lane road. Helene’s deluge was apparent: mounds of crumpled drywall, furniture and appliances lined ...","date_modified":"2024-10-19T15:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-monthly-update-1","html_content":"

I had an outdoor photo exhibit in the Spring. Nine photos on dark gray cloth panels. A college student from Tampa along with his mother and sister came by. He had a peaceful demeanor and a smooth, tender face. He agreed...

","url":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-monthly-update-1","title":"Photo Laureate Monthly Update #1","summary":" I had an outdoor photo exhibit in the Spring. Nine photos on dark gray cloth panels. A college student from Tampa along with his mother and sister came by. He had a peaceful demeanor and a smooth, tender face. He agreed...","date_modified":"2024-09-21T15:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/paradise-%7C-paradise--layered-featured-in-the-tampa-bay-times","html_content":"

SPMOP & the exhibition PARADISE | PARADISE- layered at FMoPA are featured in the Tampa Bay Times!

","url":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/paradise-%7C-paradise--layered-featured-in-the-tampa-bay-times","title":"PARADISE | PARADISE- layered featured in the Tampa Bay Times","summary":"SPMOP & the exhibition PARADISE | PARADISE- layered at FMoPA are featured in the Tampa Bay Times!","date_modified":"2024-07-01T16:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/paradise-%C7%80-paradise-layered-featured-in-the-eye-of-photography","html_content":"

Our Executive Director Marieke was approached by the renowned online magazine 'The Eye of Photography' for an article about our Photo Laureate.

","url":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/paradise-%C7%80-paradise-layered-featured-in-the-eye-of-photography","title":"Paradise ǀ Paradise layered featured in The Eye of Photography","summary":"Our Executive Director Marieke was approached by the renowned online magazine 'The Eye of Photography' for an article about our Photo Laureate.","date_modified":"2024-06-20T04:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/spmop-featured-in-bay-art-files-with-paradise-%7C-paradise--layered","html_content":"

Our Creative Director Clara ten Berge wrote an article about the exhibition PARADISE | PARADISE- Layered for Bay Art Files. Check out the article here.

","url":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/spmop-featured-in-bay-art-files-with-paradise-%7C-paradise--layered","title":"SPMOP featured in Bay Art Files with PARADISE | PARADISE- Layered","summary":"Our Creative Director Clara ten Berge wrote an article about the exhibition PARADISE | PARADISE- Layered for Bay Art Files. Check out the article here.","date_modified":"2024-06-14T14:43:22Z"},{"id":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/spmop-museum-of-motherhood-featured-on-radio-st-pete","html_content":"

Our Programming Director Águeda Sanfiz was interviewed by Alexis from Radio St.Pete!

","url":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/spmop-museum-of-motherhood-featured-on-radio-st-pete","title":"SPMOP & Museum of Motherhood featured on Radio St. Pete","summary":"Our Programming Director Águeda Sanfiz was interviewed by Alexis from Radio St.Pete!","date_modified":"2024-05-07T16:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/spmop-patricia-mastry-featured-in-eye-of-photography","html_content":"

A nice feature in the online magazine L'oeil de Photography about the exhibition: Patricia Preston Mastry & Robert Preston : Now and Then You Spot a Great Photo – Looking at St. Pete: 75 years ago & today

","url":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/spmop-patricia-mastry-featured-in-eye-of-photography","title":"SPMOP & Patricia Mastry featured in Eye of Photography","summary":"A nice feature in the online magazine L'oeil de Photography about the exhibition: Patricia Preston Mastry & Robert Preston : Now and Then You Spot a Great Photo – Looking at St. Pete: 75 years ago & today","date_modified":"2024-05-06T15:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/spmop-featured-in-creative-loafing","html_content":"

SPMOP is grateful to be featured a second time in Creative Loafing.

","url":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/spmop-featured-in-creative-loafing","title":"SPMOP featured in Creative Loafing","summary":"SPMOP is grateful to be featured a second time in Creative Loafing.","date_modified":"2024-05-02T04:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/spmop-featured-in-the-st-pete-catalyst","html_content":"

SPMOP was featured in the Catalyst! They made sure to display all our upcoming events and exhibitions.

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All the slogans lack complexity, wise warmth of feeling, no wings for the strange fruit of myth. Beast of burden in beast mode, nested in message. View of trunk so absent the flag behind the fence wears an assassin. Wise...

","url":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-bi-weekly-update-20","title":"Photo Laureate Bi-Weekly Update #20","summary":"All the slogans lack complexity, wise warmth of feeling, no wings for the strange fruit of myth. Beast of burden in beast mode, nested in message. View of trunk so absent the flag behind the fence wears an assassin. Wise...","date_modified":"2024-04-19T20:05:30Z"},{"id":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-bi-weekly-update-19","html_content":"

Famous and eternal even with its metal bones picked clean as scaffolding, this is what becomes of the central nervous system of a flame. Post fuel-ish, skeletal and gaslight. Like a ghost or a flyswatter topped with a te...

","url":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-bi-weekly-update-19","title":"Photo Laureate Bi-Weekly Update #19","summary":"Famous and eternal even with its metal bones picked clean as scaffolding, this is what becomes of the central nervous system of a flame. Post fuel-ish, skeletal and gaslight. Like a ghost or a flyswatter topped with a te...","date_modified":"2024-04-05T20:40:00Z"},{"id":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-bi-weekly-update-18","html_content":"

If there’s an alphabet floating like an offering, it dangles. Leg to letter. The linguistic circus, circle cursed. Eye food, a fiery insect approaches but which are you, spinning gear or chaos? Anything moving through da...

","url":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-bi-weekly-update-18","title":"Photo Laureate Bi-Weekly Update #18","summary":"If there’s an alphabet floating like an offering, it dangles. Leg to letter. The linguistic circus, circle cursed. Eye food, a fiery insect approaches but which are you, spinning gear or chaos? Anything moving through da...","date_modified":"2024-03-22T19:40:06Z"},{"id":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-bi-weekly-update-17","html_content":"

So going around, around the closed doors that refuse to coax in more than one form of art. So getting ready, without knowing which medium to meddle with before the laminated menus break into morning––the good fortune of ...

","url":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-bi-weekly-update-17","title":"Photo Laureate Bi-Weekly Update #17","summary":"So going around, around the closed doors that refuse to coax in more than one form of art. So getting ready, without knowing which medium to meddle with before the laminated menus break into morning––the good fortune of ...","date_modified":"2024-03-08T18:22:24Z"},{"id":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/spmop-pl-thomas-sayers-ellis-featured-in-the-artisan-magazine","html_content":"

Find the text of the SPMOP feature here and check out the full online magazine here.

","url":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/spmop-pl-thomas-sayers-ellis-featured-in-the-artisan-magazine","title":"SPMOP & PL Thomas Sayers Ellis Featured in The Artisan Magazine ","summary":"Find the text of the SPMOP feature here and check out the full online magazine here.","date_modified":"2024-03-04T14:40:41Z"},{"id":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-bi-weekly-update-16","html_content":"

I respect red and red respects February. February, too many palm trees to be feeble. We don’t have to speak, say ‘Sup (in place of “What’s up”) or acknowledge one another with a nod. Our cultured greeting, our chin-power...

","url":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-bi-weekly-update-16","title":"Photo Laureate Bi-Weekly Update #16","summary":"I respect red and red respects February. February, too many palm trees to be feeble. We don’t have to speak, say ‘Sup (in place of “What’s up”) or acknowledge one another with a nod. Our cultured greeting, our chin-power...","date_modified":"2024-02-15T15:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-bi-weekly-update-15","html_content":"

Things to do to survive being swallowed by darkness, ears a witness, puff, just enough to uplift the skull’s floatation. Ratio of cream to sugar fools the blackness, softens last night. Only a confident person can sit in...

","url":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-bi-weekly-update-15","title":"Photo Laureate Bi-Weekly Update #15","summary":"Things to do to survive being swallowed by darkness, ears a witness, puff, just enough to uplift the skull’s floatation. Ratio of cream to sugar fools the blackness, softens last night. Only a confident person can sit in...","date_modified":"2024-02-02T21:10:50Z"},{"id":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-bi-weekly-update-14","html_content":"

\"Among giants, witchy pink man-moths, the ones that will not broom away. Olympian despair, a little depression but no shame, not in this day and age. Dark figure through degrees of separatism, the arteries of alleys, the...

","url":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-bi-weekly-update-14","title":"Photo Laureate Bi-Weekly Update #14","summary":"\"Among giants, witchy pink man-moths, the ones that will not broom away. Olympian despair, a little depression but no shame, not in this day and age. Dark figure through degrees of separatism, the arteries of alleys, the...","date_modified":"2024-01-20T15:59:08Z"},{"id":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-bi-weekly-update-13","html_content":"

\"Be it banjo, fiddle, washboard or bucket, the history of anxiety has a soundtrack, one of those panic attacks that will never square the vinyl circle. In the name of mischief, antediluvian and antebellum, the camera doe...

","url":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-bi-weekly-update-13","title":"Photo Laureate Bi-Weekly Update #13","summary":"\"Be it banjo, fiddle, washboard or bucket, the history of anxiety has a soundtrack, one of those panic attacks that will never square the vinyl circle. In the name of mischief, antediluvian and antebellum, the camera doe...","date_modified":"2024-01-05T15:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-bi-weekly-update-12","html_content":"

\"If you slice your head into hours then slant each hour like slang into the shorthand of hemispheres, one in each of the scales of Libra, no leopard of history with a Germanic stem will harm you.  A lion of poetry, Luitb...

","url":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-bi-weekly-update-12","title":"Photo Laureate Bi-Weekly Update #12","summary":"\"If you slice your head into hours then slant each hour like slang into the shorthand of hemispheres, one in each of the scales of Libra, no leopard of history with a Germanic stem will harm you.  A lion of poetry, Luitb...","date_modified":"2023-12-22T19:15:03Z"},{"id":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-bi-weekly-update-11","html_content":"

\"Seed, human bean, plant-based persona, for breakfast my senses dined on historical leftovers: a divine regime versus national identity. So many images with voices, it’s hard to tell which is which. Newsfeed, net neutral...

","url":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-bi-weekly-update-11","title":"Photo Laureate Bi-Weekly Update #11","summary":"\"Seed, human bean, plant-based persona, for breakfast my senses dined on historical leftovers: a divine regime versus national identity. So many images with voices, it’s hard to tell which is which. Newsfeed, net neutral...","date_modified":"2023-12-01T15:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-bi-weekly-update-10","html_content":"

\"Taken on Florida soil, Venice and St Petersburg, the Italian-Russian stampede, this stone age image has no cover story, no hurt spot to poke the eye pink, no pop-up scandal to divert the viewer from the real event, no a...

","url":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-bi-weekly-update-10","title":"Photo Laureate Bi-Weekly Update #10","summary":"\"Taken on Florida soil, Venice and St Petersburg, the Italian-Russian stampede, this stone age image has no cover story, no hurt spot to poke the eye pink, no pop-up scandal to divert the viewer from the real event, no a...","date_modified":"2023-11-15T18:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-bi-weekly-update-9","html_content":"

\"The most gangster host you will ever meet is a ghost swinging a purse of multiplying electoral votes. Landslide in a handbag, outsider nominee. Gala and economic bubble punctured by the bio ergonomic stiletto over Influ...

","url":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-bi-weekly-update-9","title":"Photo Laureate Bi-Weekly Update #9","summary":"\"The most gangster host you will ever meet is a ghost swinging a purse of multiplying electoral votes. Landslide in a handbag, outsider nominee. Gala and economic bubble punctured by the bio ergonomic stiletto over Influ...","date_modified":"2023-11-02T15:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-bi-weekly-update-8","html_content":"

\" Within the creative bouquet, blooms a critical bruise. Alley traffic, sayeth the leaning arrow, does not have a monopoly on local logic. A stereo must fight its own stereotypes, every needle to groove, groove to arm, n...

","url":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-bi-weekly-update-8","title":"Photo Laureate Bi-Weekly Update #8","summary":"\" Within the creative bouquet, blooms a critical bruise. Alley traffic, sayeth the leaning arrow, does not have a monopoly on local logic. A stereo must fight its own stereotypes, every needle to groove, groove to arm, n...","date_modified":"2023-10-28T15:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-bi-weekly-update-7","html_content":"

\"Before we were able to recognize it, we heard it, “they’ve been together so long they look alike, move alike, smell alike, sound alike and even act alike.”  On its way to end rhyme, many couplets become couples, late li...

","url":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-bi-weekly-update-7","title":"Photo Laureate Bi-Weekly Update #7","summary":"\"Before we were able to recognize it, we heard it, “they’ve been together so long they look alike, move alike, smell alike, sound alike and even act alike.”  On its way to end rhyme, many couplets become couples, late li...","date_modified":"2023-10-14T15:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/creative-loafing-best-of-the-bay-awards","html_content":"

Marieke an Águeda at the Creative Loafing Best of the Bay Award Ceremony.

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\"Daily, the photographs expect to be carriers of poetry, internal, visibly patterned––a bit wild, a bit free, so I do what I can to match-measure sameness and difference. For every tree, a bar, the cage of sight. I do wh...

","url":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-bi-weekly-update-6","title":"Photo Laureate Bi-Weekly Update #6","summary":"\"Daily, the photographs expect to be carriers of poetry, internal, visibly patterned––a bit wild, a bit free, so I do what I can to match-measure sameness and difference. For every tree, a bar, the cage of sight. I do wh...","date_modified":"2023-09-29T14:21:20Z"},{"id":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-bi-weekly-update-5","html_content":"

\"Drive around, usually on a bike, but not this time. Go around the city till something announces itself as neon or a divine drama between crosses like a rectangular portal of salvation. Every liberation has a ceiling, an...

","url":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-bi-weekly-update-5","title":"Photo Laureate Bi-Weekly Update #5","summary":"\"Drive around, usually on a bike, but not this time. Go around the city till something announces itself as neon or a divine drama between crosses like a rectangular portal of salvation. Every liberation has a ceiling, an...","date_modified":"2023-09-15T08:10:11Z"},{"id":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-bi-weekly-update-4","html_content":"

\"The hood of his vehicle is open, and he is sitting, diagonally parked, near the mother of all local banyan trees, waiting for a battery. It’s hot, retina melting bright, the kind of sweltering wave that ruins art. And y...

","url":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-bi-weekly-update-4","title":"Photo Laureate Bi-Weekly Update #4","summary":"\"The hood of his vehicle is open, and he is sitting, diagonally parked, near the mother of all local banyan trees, waiting for a battery. It’s hot, retina melting bright, the kind of sweltering wave that ruins art. And y...","date_modified":"2023-08-23T09:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-bi-weekly-update-3","html_content":"

\"I’ve been wondering a lot about how much fiction a photograph can hold or whether it should hold any at all. The sky page vs point of view, plot vs stolen bases, come into play the moment the imagination does a double t...

","url":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-bi-weekly-update-3","title":"Photo Laureate Bi-Weekly Update #3","summary":"\"I’ve been wondering a lot about how much fiction a photograph can hold or whether it should hold any at all. The sky page vs point of view, plot vs stolen bases, come into play the moment the imagination does a double t...","date_modified":"2023-08-10T08:00:00Z"},{"id":"https://spmop.org/pl-2024-1/f/photo-laureate-bi-weekly-update-2","html_content":"

\"Never mind the overbearing radiance, the white, strobe flash of the surf, I’ve got things to show you, species of color, St Peter on top of St Pete, visual collisions, images that bleed into the age of imaginary beings,...

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\"Regarding the light, it was early, and noon had yet to talk the sun into being its only eye. Lassing Park was new to me, so quite naturally, I’d accept whatever it offered my senses: the soggy rim of curved land and bay...

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New Nonprofit Focuses on Photography

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On February 17, 2023, Marieke & Clara had the honor of being interviewed on 88.5 FM WMNF by JoEllen Schilke in her show Art in Your Ear.

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The first-ever 'St. Petersburg Month of Photography' is happening this May!

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Extreme empathy: The patient, humane eye of photographer Ric Savid.

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