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3:09 pm
Wed June 5, 2013

See The Beauty In Haiti With Photographer Maggie Steber's New Show In Coral Gables

Credit Maggie Steber
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Picture images of developing countries in American media and you’ll likely think of a few recurring tropes — photos depicting squalid living conditions and political strife.

“We always end up looking at poor countries as being fraught with tragedy and poverty,” says documentary photographer Maggie Steber, in a video trailer for her new solo show opening in Coral Gables on Thursday. “We don’t recognize what is beautiful. We don’t equate what is beautiful.”

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Seminole Tribe Photo Exhibition
7:02 am
Tue April 9, 2013

Rediscovered Photographs From 1910 Offer A Glimpse Of Seminole Life In The Everglades

Credit Julian Dimock Collection / American Museum of Natural History
Photos from the Julian Dimock collection will be on exhibition through the end of the year.
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Throughout the month, WLRN will celebrate the Everglades in audio, visual, and written form. On Sunday, Florida's singular River of Grass got a national shout-out when the weekend edition of NPR's "All Things Considered" profiled an exhibition of recently "rediscovered" photographs of Seminole subjects living in the Everglades in 1910.

In her introduction to the story, host Jacki Lyden spoke of her annual spring pilgrimage to the Everglades: "There's nothing quite as evocative as the Florida of mangrove swamps and inhospitable terrain that you will find in the Seminole territories..."

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The Chapman Archives
6:00 am
Wed January 30, 2013

Jonestown, Cocaine Cowboys, Mariel Boat Lift: One-Of-A-Kind Photo Collection Needs A Home

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Credit Kenny Malone
Retired Miami Herald photographer Tim Chapman in front of less than half of his massive archive of photos, negatives, slides and newspapers.
Credit Kenny Malone
"This is Mariel right here," said Chapman, "the first slide."
Credit Tim Chapman
In 1980, Chapman took one of the most iconic photos from the Mariel Boat Lift. He was in a military hanger. "This guy from the military came out and said, ‘Welcome to America.’ And these people, they just erupted with joy."
Credit Tim Chapman
In 1978, Tim Chapman was one of the first journalists to arrive on the scene of a mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana.
Credit Tim Chapman
The Mutiny Hotel was ground zero for the Cocaine Cowboys culture. Here, two men finished their climb down the side of the building after lighitng a bathtub full of cash on fire.
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In a small house in west Miami-Dade, Tim Chapman has nearly filled his guest bedroom with cardboard storage boxes, each one carefully labeled with a year.

“I’ll show you a couple years,” said Chapman, moving pulling a box from a teetering stack. “This is Mariel right here, the first slide.”

Chapman holds up a color slide of an iconic photo he took during the Mariel Boat Lift in 1980.

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