The Miami Photographic Observatory (MPhO) Opens its Doors as an Artistic Residency.
Miami, July 16th, 2025
The Miami Photographic Observatory (MPhO) Opens its Doors as an Artistic Residency.
The Miami Photographic Observatory (MPhO) opens its doors as an artistic residency and platform dedicated to studying, through photographic imagery, the urban evolution and current configuration of Miami’s vital spaces. Local and international photographers, filmmakers, and visual artists will have access to an equipped studio/gallery space where they will develop commissioned projects curated by Aluna Curatorial Collective. Throughout their stay, artists will also have the opportunity to exhibit previous works alongside visual outcomes created during their residency.
The artists-in-residence at MPhO will map various sectors of the city, creating updated visual archives to be presented on artistic and educational platforms. These archives will function not only as visual chronicles of a landscape and its time but also as interactive fields of dialogue between imagery and theory. From this interplay of iconographic archive and theoretical research, MPhO will host a series of talks featuring sociologists, demographers, architects, urban planners, and scholars interested in exploring the broader implications of the artists’ documentation.
The outcome of this multidisciplinary research will be gradually collected and organized on MPhO’s website. The visual mappings created by the residents will be presented in thematic exhibitions at Aluna Art Foundation’s space in Little Havana. Over time, the Miami Photographic Observatory aspires to become a vital visual and theoretical platform for studying the city’s heritage and understanding its transformations during the early 21st century.
