Photography is new to me. In 2017 I took my father’s Olympus DSLR- he had recently passed away and had owned a touristy costume photo studio in Key West before I was born. He always had an interest in photography but never showed it when he was alive. All I knew was the aged, sepia-toned, large-format, polaroid print of him dressed as a cowboy. At the time, I took the camera out of necessity- I had just started my online art business, making pins, coloring books, and stickers, and I needed good product shots.

At the beginning, I had no idea what I was doing. A friend had described the triangle to me, but it went over my head. I just stayed in Program mode and scrolled the wheel to the left to darken the shot and to the right to brighten it. Over time, and through practice, I began to chip away at the settings and explore every single feature on that camera.

In 2021 I joined the Tampa Bay Society of Photographic Artists. Through our monthly peer review, I began to understand the difference between a nice shot and a great shot- I began discerning which images were worth printing.  In 2024, I finally began exhibiting my photographic work.

Now I feel like I’m sitting on $10k of equipment and just a little bit closer to understanding my father.

This section will feature a rotating selection of limited edition prints.

-Nick Ribera, 2025