Gallery

Spring 2025 Exhibits
Richter Library, Room 118

Creative Studio is exhibiting two collections during Spring 2025: The Handbags My Mom and I Share, which was installed in January 2025, and The Miami Metro Project installed in August 2024.

The Handbags My Mom and I Share

From photographer Lorelei DiSanto. Lorelei aims to always put her creative initiative into all her photographs. She is now studying journalism and creative advertising at the University of Miami and is producing work for The Miami Hurricane. loreleislens.com

This series began in January 2022 with a few purses and my mom and I’s creative minds. We wanted to take a photograph with a purse but in an artful type way. We started out by taking pictures of a shell purse next to other shells lying on our table. We would use the trinkets we had around the house as props for the photoshoots. This led to bringing the purse along with me to take pictures on the road. We would stop at an ice-cream shop, a side street, Farmer’s markets, a neighbor’s house, an ice rink, a train station, and anywhere we could put a purse. My younger brother always came along to help be an arm, cameraman, and more. My mom and I always have these fun crazy ideas to photograph. My mom is always there to help with ideas, be an arm, camerawoman, prop holder, and much more. She is my creative caddy. This is an ongoing series about travel and lifestyle with currently 58 photographs in the collection. Once I finish the series it will be published into a coffee table book.

The Miami Metro Project

From photographer Alexandra (Allie) Fisher. Through her work, Alexandra aims to create an emotional connection between the viewer and her photographs, often focusing on the dramatic use of negative space, light, and line to bring a fine-art perspective to every subject she works with. www.alexandralfisher.com

The Miami Metro Project investigates the Miami Metro system by studying and depicting the train itself—and those that use it—from entrance to exit. Inspired by artists like Walker Evans and Ernst Haas, this collection utilizes light, reflection, and framing elements to take both a documentary and abstracted approach to capturing the space. The images look not only to the passengers of the metro, but also to the unique details of construction and light created in it to create a complete view of the experience. The Miami Metro Project presents the metro not just as a mode of transport but as a place where many spend a great deal of their lives.