PLEASE JOIN ME FOR THE OPENING OF MY LITTLE HAVANA PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT – SAVE MY LITTLE HAVANA

ART DECO WELCOME CENTER MIAMI BEACH                                          OCEAN DRIVE AT 10^TH STREET   6 P.M. TO 8 P.M. THURSDAY AUGUST 24 

STEVE WRIGHT, VISUAL AND VERBAL STORYTELLER

Steve Wright has earned his living as a storyteller for four decades. He went to journalism school to become a reporter and learned the art of black and white photography – including developing and printing his film – at Kent State University.

Through the years, he honed his skills with film, slides, early digital SLRs and with the increasingly good lenses built into smart phones.

For more than 20 years, the Ohio native has called Miami’s Little Havana home. He bought a careworn but beautiful 1922 home on the southwest corner of historic William Jennings Bryan Park. While fighting to preserve the park from being entirely paved in concrete for an out of scale tennis center, he patiently restored his Spanish Mission-style, hardwood floored, art-filled abode.

Long involved in historic preservation as a journalist, Wright fell in love with the diverse people and architecture of Little Havana. While working for the chair of the Miami City Commission, he supported festivals on Calle Ocho and steered the project that created a linear park from SW 8^th Street to historical Coral Way.

Wright uses his photography to illustrate not only his stories on architecture, planning and placemaking, but also his international speeches on making cities more inclusive for all – especially people with disabilities.

Wright’s speaking/writing/photography assignments have taken him to Istanbul, Paris, Barcelona, Marrakech, Cairo, Lisbon, London, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, Medellin, La Antigua, Montevideo and countless major cities in North America.

He spends time each weekend photographing the beautiful, often need of a little TLC, early 20^th century residential and commercial buildings of Little Havana.