At the heart of Little Havana—on the pedestrian crossroads where 15th Avenue meets 8th Street—Alom and Pavón will spend several days capturing the faces of residents and wandering travelers alike. Their work will unfold as a living chronicle of the neighborhood’s socio-cultural and human fabric, created with a singular analog device that is both camera and darkroom, a crafted instrument born from their own hands.

Miami-Dade County Cultural Affairs Council approved a FY2025-2026 Developing Arts in Neighborhoods Grant Program award to Aluna Art Foundation, Inc., for the project FY 2025-2026 Season Activities. We extend our sincere thanks to the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, the Cultural Affairs Council, the Mayor, and the Miami-Dade County Board of County Commissioners.

Aluna Art Foundation announces the opening of the second residency of its project, the Miami Photographic Observatory, with “Ethereal Chronicles of Cities”, an exhibition by Lili(ana), who has made Miami her home since 1997. Cities, wrote Italo Calvino, “are a collection of many things: memories, desires, signs of a language; they are places of exchange, as every economic history book explains, but these exchanges are not only of goods—they are also exchanges of words, desires, memories.” Lili(ana) wanders through the cities, which have been expanding relentlessly, with a powerful instrument in her hands: a camera.

Miami, July 16th, 2025 Ramón Williams is the inaugural invited artist for the Miami Photographic Observatory (MPhO). The Observatory will exhibit a selection of images from his Trace Crop Off series, a unique documentation of the city initiated upon his arrival in 1996. Additionally, Williams has been commissioned to create an alternate documentation using drones […]

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 (…)