Nearly 70 Photos Submitted To FMoPA's Annual Members Show

TAMPA, FL — This year, Florida Museum of Photographic Arts' Members Show received nearly 70 entries from FMoPA members in the categories of portraits, conceptual, documentary, nature and abstract.

Winners include:

Nature
1st Place: Lyza Sahertian- Dreamy Fog #1
2nd Place: Joyce Lopez- Garden Window
3rd Place: Alyssa Meyer- Summer Sunbathing

Conceptual
1st Place: Gary Beeber- After Midnight
2nd Place: Michael Mosby- Selective Memory
3rd Place: Cristina Casiano- Patio for thoughts

Portraits
1st Place: Richard Savid- Lillian Double Image
2nd Place: Christina Edmonds- That moment (just before we cried our eyes out and swore we would quit doing photo shoots and I would shoot only trash)
3rd Place: Christa Joyner Moody- Katrina, Wild

Documentary
1st Place: H.W. Rayburn- Under the Boardwalk
2nd Place: Lily Evans- Wash Day. No Running Water
3rd Place: Antonio A. Suares- The Past Comes Alive

Abstract
1st Place: Geo Zzyzoff- Untitled
2nd Place: Sashko Ilov- Riots Under The Calm Sky
3rd Place: Edward Corvi- Negative Dali

The Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, 400 N. Ashley Drive, Cube 200, Tampa, is open daily from noon to 5 p.m. and noon to 7 p.m. on Fridays.

The museum is dedicated to exhibiting important photographic art as central to contemporary life and culture. FMoPA collects, preserves and exhibits historic and contemporary works by nationally and internationally known photographic artists and provides outreach programs to educate children and adults.

Currently on exhibit is "At Table" by Glenna Jennings, an award-winning artist, curator and educator whose dynamic practice of image-making draws mainly from her research and community service, as well as the history, theory and practice of photography. She currently heads the photography program at the University of Dayton, where she is an associate professor in the Department of Art and Design.

“At Table” is an ongoing series in which Jennings strives to document everyday spaces of connection and communication around food, drink and culinary happenings.

The artist photographs friends, family and strangers around kitchen tables, restaurants, dining rooms, bars and coffee tables that she has been invited to in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe and China.

She documents her work through both a local and global lens offering a unique perspective on multiple cultures while also exploring how photography functions in history and memory.

Jennings’ “tablescapes” capture moments of humor and drama through the subject’s expressions and the objects surrounding them. A place for authentic interactions that transcend cultural barriers, “At Table” becomes cultural artifacts and acts as personal memories. Jennings aims to connect aspects of the human condition across time and space through the presentation of the seemingly commonplace table that people meet around each day.

The exhibit runs through Jan. 23.