Opening in the Balcony Gallery for Florida Artists, 30 black-and-white and color photographs by Joel Bustamante (Venezuela, b. 1949).
Born in Caracas, Venezuela, Bustamante enjoyed an international education early on in his career. He graduated at The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale while working in the college’s photography department. Bustamante owned and operated an advertising agency in Caracas for a decade before graduating with a Master’s in architectural photography from Tokyo-based Nihon University. During that time, he created a photo exposé of the amazing modern architecture in Japan from the 1970’s through the 1980’s that was capped by the 1985 one-of-a-kind structures erected for the World’s Fair held in Tsukuba Science City, located north of Tokyo. The 30 photographs included in the exhibition are predominantly in black-and-white with a few color works.