Miami Visual Collective

Category Archive: MVC Blog Post

21 Mar

SMARTPHONE PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP LEVEL 1

ABOUT SMARTPHONE PHOTOGRAPHY: What begun as an interesting trend has now become a powerful form of expression, as millions of users now always have a smartphone in their hands/pockets/purses This…
17 at 10:23 pm By MiamiVisual
02 Mar

•ADVANCED PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS WITH JORGE PARRA

Starting on March 2017,  MiamiVisual Founder, Jorge Parra, is offering a series of Advanced Photography Workshops for selected participants, in an intimate atmosphere, where only 10-12 photographers will attend each workshop. This…
17 at 5:16 am By MiamiVisual
04 Apr

•ARE FOLLOWERS REPLACING PROFESSIONAL TALENT IN ADVERTISING?

After what happened with the Advertising Campaign for Burberry, shot by 16 years old Brooklyn Beckham, with no photographic experience, but 6,5 million followers in Instagram,
Are Followers Replacing Professional Talent in Advertising?
16 at 11:31 pm By MiamiVisual
08 Sep

•THE AMAZING POWER OF TESTIMONIALS!

by Jorge Parra, Founder, Miami Visual Collective The text below is a very personal testimonial, written by Adenike Akinbisehin, one of my best students from the Miami Ad School Advanced…
15 at 4:10 am By MiamiVisual Leave a comment
Photo ©Jorge Parra
07 Jul

•THE SEXIEST FASHION WEEK IN THE WORLD IS BACK IN MIAMI!!

Very soon we will have the heat in Miami getting even higher when the upcoming Miami Fashion Week Swim  plus the Funkshion Fashion Week burst in several locations across South…
15 at 9:17 pm By MiamiVisual
20 Jun

•PHOTOGRAPHER / DIRECTOR JORGE PARRA LAUNCHES SPANKING NEW WEBSITE

MiamiVisual Collective  Founder, Photographer and Director Jorge Parra has just announced the launch of a totally new website, using responsive design, for his extensive portfolio of images, right there, in…
15 at 8:42 pm By MiamiVisual
09 May

•BODY AND DANCE SERIES – DANCE IMAGE PROJECTS

by  LUCRECIA DIAZ Every time I stay for a while in some place, I go and explore the new spaces and people, photographing almost everything that catches my attention, out…
15 at 2:52 am By MiamiVisual
03 Feb

•SUCCESS STRATEGIES FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS IN LINKEDIN

 By Jorge Parra I had previously posted a whole set of tips and suggestions on how to successfully use Linkedin as a professional networking channel, taking advantage of the fact,…
15 at 2:04 am By MiamiVisual
08 Jan

Potato,Leek Soup with Smoked Salmon

Like soup?  Forget cans or frozen bricks of salty bouillon with what was once a veg or meat now a carrier of some chemical experiment gone wrong. This soup is…
15 at 5:53 pm By MiamiVisual 1 Comment
04 Jan

•TWO PROPOSALS FOR THE CREATIVE COMMUNITY

As long as it is relevant to build short, medium and long term plans for our lives, both personally and professionally (and Mind Maps will help with this in amazing…
15 at 4:28 pm By MiamiVisual
25 Nov

Cranberries for Thanksgiving

Hey it’s Thanksgiving and if you think turkey, think Cranberry Sauce. Other than a can, how the sauce got there was an awaited education best learned at the source,the master…
14 at 7:09 pm By MiamiVisual
30 Oct

•Making Halloween Coffee …Latin Style

By Matthew Pace. There’s a new coffee in town,  Juan Valdez, and they opened a new cafe, one of over 200 international stores, asking for me, “El Hombre de las…
14 at 2:07 am By MiamiVisual
14 Oct

SPECIALIZATION THROUGH DIVERSIFICATION? How Digital Technology is transforming the meaning of old tags and categories for Photographers

We are living the interesting yet critical transition period during which most of the analog world is crumbling, and giving up way to an entire paradigm, where digital technologies are…
14 at 8:57 pm By MiamiVisual
25 Sep

•MIAMI ADVERTISING PHOTOGRAPHER JORGE PARRA RELAUNCHES THE SYNTHETIC HABITAT PROJECT

Miami Advertising / Commercial photographer Jorge Parra relaunches the Synthetic Habitat Project: Architecture, Interior Design and Lighting Design Photography for the Leisure and Luxury Markets.

Jorge is well known as a People Photographer, shooting Advertising, Fashion, Beauty and Lifestyle Photography for over 2 decades. However, for the last 8 years, he has also been shooting several architectural and Interior design projects for the Travel, Leisure and Luxury clients in the USA and abroad.

Check the revamped website for The Synthetic Habitat Project

http://SyntheticHabitat.com

Cheers!

14 at 10:15 pm By jorgeparraphotography Leave a comment
18 May

•BUSINESS CHALLENGES FOR THE VISUAL ARTS IN THE DIGITAL ERA -Part 2: THE FINE ART MARKET

By Jorge Parra We talked in Part 1 about the major challenges most professional photographers have to deal in commercial/advertising markets due to the democratization process introduced by digital technologies, as cliches and…
14 at 7:16 pm By MiamiVisual