Peephole | jorgevera

Peephole Series, Celestial, Miami Beach 1998, Printed Later

Peephole Series, Tango, Miami Beach 1998, Printed Later

Peephole Series, Kat, Miami Beach 1998, Printed Later

Peephole Series, Celestial, Miami Beach 1998, Printed Later

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I photographed the “Peephole” series in 1998, one Halloween night on Lincoln Road outside my art studio in Miami’s South Beach. This analog work was shot in B/W film with a wide angle lens rigged with extension rings and a handheld flash. The idea was to evoke the view through a door peephole, as one would have at many Art Deco apartments and hotel rooms in South Beach at the time. The result is a series of intimate close-up photographs taken during a night of street celebration, in what was then a proud Miami LGBTQ community that coexisted with established Beach families, immigrants, Bohemians, actors, visual and performance artists, musicians, poets and writers in a unique place, at a unique time in the history of Florida. This work was archived for twenty-eight-years as I traveled through life’s patches of dark and light, and other adventures. That is, until now.