INSTRUCTORS
Carolina Muñoz
Muñoz holds a BFA in Communication Design from Parsons School of Design, New York (1988). Her experience includes working in design studios and ad agencies in New York, Bogotá and Caracas. She has taught at Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Fotográficos (CIEF) and at Organización Nelson Garrido (La ONG) in Caracas, Venezuela. As an internationally exhibiting visual artist she investigates notions about memory, death and the psyche. Muñoz is also a commercial photographer and an on-site and online educator.
Jorge A. Castillo
Photographer, editor, instructor, professor. Graduated in Communications Design from the University of Essen, Germany in 1993. He is Professor of Photography at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV) in Caracas, Venezuela, since 1996. He has exhibited his work in several galleries in Venezuela and abroad. Between 2001 and 2007 he led the transition from analog to digital of the photography department of El Nacional newspaper, in Venezuela. He is currently dedicated to architectural photography.
Matt Stock
A multifaceted creator, recipient of a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts grant and a Florida native, Matt Stock have become well known for mastering a technique called: Painting with Light in the Dark®. Matt finds
inspiration in the natural elements of water, earth and sky. As a photographer, his focus on conservation is complemented by his ongoing work with national and state parks, non-profit organizations, and museums, making sure he is an active mind contributing to raise awareness about threatened places and cultures.
Marc Serota
As a Portrait photographer Serota has lensed Iconic Athletes and celebrities for CORBIS and GETTY as well as major brands such Sports Illustrated, ESPN, the NBA, NHL and the NFL. Serota is a renown award winning photographer having logged 25+ years with news agency such as REUTERS, Getty Images, The Associated Press and UPI shooting the biggest News, Entertainment and Sports story’s from the early 1990’s and into the 2020’s and has covered numerous Super Bowls, Olympic games, NHL Stanley Cup’s, NASCAR races, ATP and PGA events.
Serota had a strong tenure as the Miami Heat and Miami Marlins Team photographer and has documented 4 NBA Finals and 2 World Series Championships. Marc continues to run his Studio in the Florida Keys and shoots for clients like Reebok & Nike. His portrait and sports work appears on countless websites and in magazines worldwide.
Jorge Parra
For the past 5 years, Parra has been involved with the visual education of young and interesting talents, mostly students of the Miami Ad School in the Wynwood Art District, as well as through several private workshops in both San Francisco and Miami. He has developed his vision, “by blending elegance and sensuality with my love for bold design to create images and elaborate stories that range from the seemingly mundane to the conceptual for the Advertising and Leisure/Luxury markets”.
Eli Dreyfuss
Eli Dreyfuss is an award winning professional portrait photographer and filmmaker based in Miami, Florida. His work focuses on connecting and empowering people with their most genuine selves and shining a light on the things that make us human. With each personal project he takes on, he aims to bring together people to develop a deeper understanding of them, and spreads the beauty of humanity to the world.
The work Eli produces is a reflection of his core beliefs and values which are: Compassion, empathy , and the passion to make this world a better and more understanding place one picture, one film, and one story at a time.
Andrés Manner
Photographer with studies at the International Center of Photography in New York, Art Institute of Boston. His experience as a photography professor goes back to 1993 for Image Foundation CONAC- UNESCO, Venezuela. Pro-Diseño Institute, Escuela Foto Arte, and Cubo 7, which he co-founded, in Caracas – Venezuela. He is the Founder Director of the Miami Institute of Photography.
Gabriela Gamboa
Gabriela Gamboa, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Bachelors in Art and Design from the University of Chicago and a Masters of Fine Arts at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She began her teaching career, being one of the creators of the video department for the nascent Instituto Superior de Artes Armando Reverón in Venezuela. She is currently a professor at the Centro de Estudios Fotográficos and shares her time between her studio in Caracas and being a visiting artist and lecturer in other parts of the world. Gabriela has received a number of awards and residencies, including the Juan Lovera Prize at the Michelena Bienale 2002.
Rafael Nuñez
With more than 20 years of experience in the audiovisual field, Rafael Núñez has worked as cinematographer in film productions and prestigious TV channels (HBO, Discovery, ESPN, Gourmet Channel). He has collaborated as a filmmaker in video Award winning art projects that been exposed across museums and galleries around the world. He teaches courses and seminar, and he is the current remote audio-visual coordinator for “SOS TELEMEDICINA” in Venzuela’s Central University’s School of Medicine.
Paul Perdomo
Paul Perdomo holds a BA in Visual Arts (film & video) from the University of California San Diego-UCSD- (2002) After graduation Paul attended Brooks Institute of Photography and concentrated in Commercial Photography Studies (2004). Paul is a diversified and experienced photographer/videographer. His career started in Los Angeles, California, and now He resides in Miami, FL.
María A. Cardona
María Alejandra Cardona, born in Venezuela, raised in Miami, Florida, her culture was strongly based on immigration and language barriers; she began to explore how to document the world and untold narratives by immersing herself in various communities. Maria Alejandra has obtained a bachelors in multimedia photojournalism from Columbia College Chicago.You can find Maria Alejandra’s published work in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, REUTERS, the Associated Press, and more.
Oriol Tarridas
Oriol Tarridas was born in Barcelona, Spain. His diversified and proven experience as a Photographer spans more than twenty years. He studied at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York City, worked at Magnum Photos in NYC (1994-1995). He was Chief Photographer and Editor of newspaper El Mundo in Barcelona (1995-2003) and has worked since 1990 as a free-lance photographer for many important European and US firms.
Bernardo Olmos
Marco Bell
Marco Bell was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in 1983. Bell (MFA Photography, Parsons The New School for Design, New York, 2015) is an internationally-awarded photographer and visual artist with a deep interest in socially-engaged artistic practices. Bell’s work has been exhibited and awarded internationally (USA, Venezuela, Hungary, China, New Zealand, Mexico). He currently lives in Miami, where he works as an art educator, editor for the New York Journal of Photography and full-time architecture and fine arts photographer.