BLACK HISTORY MONTH EVENT AT THE BETSY HOTEL PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY’S IWITNESS FEATURING APPEARANCES BY GLOBAL PHOTOGRAPHER MARIA DANIEL BALCAZAR AND JAZZ PERFORMER/POET TAI ALLEN
The Betsy Hotel (thebetsyhotel.com) is proud to present Kilombo, the inaugural iWitness exhibition of documentary photographs by Maria Daniel Balcazar, in the Carlton Room Gallery. Kilombo’s opening event is on February 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM – and marks the launch of a new dynamic sustained collaboration: iWitness @ The Betsy. This event is free and open to the public. (enter The Betsy at 1433 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach). The exhibition will be up through May 2025.
The exhibition of large-scale documentary photographs entitled Kilombo, a tribute to the resilience and vitality of the African legacy in Brazil, represents the work of Maria Daniel Balcazar, a prize-winning documentary photographer and visual anthropologist, whose projects focus on the vitality of cultural traditions in the constant remaking of identity.
Artist Maria Daniel Balcazar will be present at the opening event to speak about her work, in partnership with Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Carl Juste, founder and curator of iWitness. Brooklyn-based Poet/Performer Tai Allen (with Brian Murphy, piano) will also present and perform. Ms. Balcazar and Mr. Allen will be in residence in The Betsy Writers Room (thebetsywritersroom.com) as part of this initiative – joining more than 1000 alumni in the program.
Kilombo marks the beginning of a sustained collaborative relationship between The Betsy Hotel and the iWitness: IPC Institute of Visual Journalism, itself a joint effort born of a partnership between the Iris Photo Collective led by Carl-Philippe Juste and the Wolfsonian Public Humanities Lab led by Dr. Rebecca Friedman.
