The High Life: Contemporary Photography and the Birds

19 July – 14 September 2025

Downtown Sarasota Campus
1534 Mound Street
Sarasota, FL 34236
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Organised by the Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography and curated by photography experts William Ewing and Danaé Panchaud, the exhibition features some 70 works by more than 50 photographers from around the world. The works are presented in the galleries of the Richard and Ellen Sandor Museum of Botany & the Arts and outside throughout the gardens, where art mirrors nature in unique and unexpected ways.

Birds have long fascinated, perplexed, and inspired human beings. These captivating subjects have also been featured in photographs throughout the nearly 200-year history of photography. Some of the contemporary photographers represented in the exhibition specialize in the photography of birds. Others have only occasionally captured images of birds, and a few have done so merely by chance. The resulting combination of images provides a rich and varied perspective on the subject.