Portraits

Exhibition catalog for Florida Portraits opening. Syd Solomon, a nationally known artist and “abstract expressionist” with his wife Annie in their Sarasota studio. 1991©. (41 portraits, Sarasota County Terrace Building, Sarasota, Fl, May 2014)

Exhibition, Florida Portraits. Mack Doss, a longtime Manatee County rancher. Mack was noted for his local “ranch” rodeos and the popular visits to his ranch, of the nationally traveling early Wild West Shows. 1983©

Exhibition, Florida Portraits. The Roehr Family. Rita Roehr was Sarasota’s first woman to be elected to the City Commission and was later appointed as Sarasota’s first woman mayor. 1984©.

Exhibition, Florida Portraits. Helen Griffith, was the noted “gossip columnist” with the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, and Sarasota’s “main street reporter” for over forty years. 1985©.

Exhibition, Florida Portraits. Lillian Burns, a Sarasota native, local historian and preservationist, whose father Owen, built the grand El Vernona Hotel in 1926. 1988©.

Exhibition, Florida Portraits. Mary “Diamond Teeth” McClain, a blues singer, who early in life, traveled the southern circuit ‘as a boy’ with the known “Rabbit Foot” minstrel shows. In her 80’s and still singing at the local clubs, “Diamond Teeth” Mary’s favorite pastime was fishing, using her “cane poles” at the Sunshine Skyway Bridge. 1983©.

Exhibition, Florida Portraits. Willis Underwood, a commercial fisherman and renowned “smoker” of Florida’s native fish – the mullet. Shown here with his converted juice cooler used as his fish “smoker”. 1999©.

Exhibition, Florida Portraits. Lori Ann Toole, waitress. As a child, under the watchful eyes of a farm owner, Lori’s large family were one of the last, white “sharecropping” families to farm the fields of Manatee County. 1984©.

Exhibition, Florida Portraits. Sheriff Jim Hardcastle, Sarasota’s County Sheriff who was arrested on a felony charge during his stint as Sarasota County’s top law enforcement officer. 1977©.

Exhibition, Florida Portraits. Maynard Hiss, an early local environmental activist. (His father, Philip Hiss was well known for the establishment of the Sarasota School of Architecture movement). 1978©.

Exhibition, Florida Portraits. Katherine Harris, Florida’s Secretary of State, whose influence on the 2000 presidential election, Bush vs Gore’s final voter count, made national headlines and helped turn the election. 2002©.

Cuba Portraits. Residents of the neighborhood, Jesus Maria. Habana Vieja, Cuba. January 1998©. Rene Palma, plumber with his good friend Marta Yera, a retired waitress.

Cuba Portraits. Resident of the neighborhood, Jesus Maria. Habana Vieja, Cuba. January 1998©. Michel Averoff González, Middle School student.

Cuba Portraits. Resident of the neighborhood, Jesus Maria. Habana Vieja, Cuba. January 1998©. Antonio García González, retired salesman.

Cuba Portraits. Resident of the neighborhood, Jesus Maria. Habana Vieja, Cuba. January 1998©. Luís Ramírez, house painter.

Cuba Portraits. Resident of the neighborhood, Jesus Maria. Habana Vieja, Cuba. January 1998©. Agusto Molina Revé, percussionist and neighborhood president of the CDR – Comité de Defensa de la Revolución.

Cuba Portraits. Resident of the neighborhood, Jesus Maria. Habana Vieja, Cuba. January 1998©. Yohander Tamayo Lobaina, High School student.

Cuba Portraits. Resident of the neighborhood, Jesus Maria. Habana Vieja, Cuba. January 1998©. Francisco González García, retired construction mason.

Cuba Portraits. Resident of the neighborhood, Jesus Maria. Habana Vieja, Cuba. January 1998©. María-Teresa Salgueiro Núñez, High School student.

Cuba Portraits. Resident of the neighborhood, Jesus Maria. Habana Vieja, Cuba. January 1998©. Francisco González González, photographer.

Cuba Portraits. Resident of the neighborhood, Jesus Maria. Habana Vieja, Cuba. January 1998©. Jair Barrabia Noa, water pump mechanic.

Cuba Portraits. Resident of the neighborhood, Jesus Maria. Habana Vieja, Cuba. January 1998©. Yamilka González Rodríguez, fourth year student - “waitressing school”.

Brazil Portraits. Boys on the street, “garotos”. Numa Rua de Corumbá (one of few paved streets in the border town of Corumbá). Corumbá, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil. 1989©.

Brazil Portraits. Francisco Gerson de Saboya (“Tica”) - owner of Fazenda Porangaba, a large cattle ranch in the Pantanal, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil. Nearly the size of the Everglades, “Tica’s” ranch land was without electricity or roads. Years without his diesel powered generator, “Tica” tuned-in daily on his transistor radio for the latest news and weather reports. 1989©.

Brazil Portraits. Nair with her daughter, Giovanessa. “Colonos” (tenant farmers). Fazenda Porangaba, Pantanal, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil. 1989©.

Brazil Portraits. Aleriano “cozinheiro” (cook) for one of many river boats crossing the Rio Paraguai daily. The river separated Brazil from Bolivia and was known as a distribution crossing point for the narcotic coca leaf. Corumbá, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil. 1989©.