This weekend marks the last chance to take in a trifecta of Cuba-themed photography portfolios at the Florida Museum of Photographic Arts. There’s Clyde Butcher’s sweeping rural landscapes captured in luxurious detail with a wide-format camera, David Audet’s hand-held street photography shot in urban Havana and Afro-Cuban Santiago, and Maria Martinez Cañas’s elaborate, abstract photo collages based on authentic Cuban postage stamps. All three artists are Floridians; Butcher has a home in the Everglades, Audet teaches at Hillsborough Community College’s Ybor Campus, and Cuba-born Cañas lives in Miami. The exhibit also includes a fascinating display of amateur photographs taken by Bay area residents in Cuba, from vacation shots to family portraits. Don’t miss this show—it’s one of the best FMoPA has hosted since expanding and moving downtown last year.
Through Nov. 10. Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, 200 N. Tampa St., downtown Tampa, 813-221-2222, fmopa.org
[below] An image from David Audet’s series of Cuba photographs.

[below] A Cuban postage stamp inspires a photo collage by Maria Martinez Cañas

















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