By: Luis Roca/Contributing Writer
If pictures are worth a thousand words, then Rolando Dal Pezzo’s speak in several different languages.
For one month, Dal Pezzo’s photographs captured the attention of students walking by the photo gallery in Academic II, room 101, at the Biscayne Bay Campus.
The exhibition Green Card #0123456789, a series of portraits pictures, showed every day situations in the faces of men, women and children with something in common: not being from any particular place.
The images were shot in Europe, South America and the US somehow reflecting the life of the author.
Dal Pezzo, an Italian, born in Venezuela but American since 1984 is a photographer, jeweler and instructor at the University, Miami Dade College and South Miami Elementary.
On his latest exhibit Dal Pezzo used slower shutter speeds on every single image, producing clear photographs with a vivid light.
“The colors look almost surreal,” said George Vargas, psychology student at FIU. “They are not colors you see on a daily basis.”
For Loretta Butler, fine arts major, the images at the exhibit work as a music scale with different tones but a clear sense of harmony.
“The image capture the individuals in a very natural environment,” said Butler. “They seem to go together in a familiar way.”
For Dal Pezzo, the exhibit dealt with the idea of belonging and not belonging at the same time.
“It has to do with not being from any particular place,” Dal Pezzo said. “I am one of those.”
Dal Pezzo completed a bachelor’s degree at the University, then received a master’s degree in photography at California College for Arts and Crafts and a master of sociology back at the University.
From the dark room in the photo lab at Modesto Mandique Campus, Dal Pezzo sees clearly what motivated him to be a photographer.
“I bought a camera when I was 20 years old to look at the world,” Dal Pezzo said, “but buying a camera doesn’t necessarily make you pay attention to the world.
Now at 56, Dal Pezzo teaches photography, but also learns from his students.
“My elementary school students are much better photographers than I am,” Dal Pezzo said, “just the way they see world is so unique.
Dal Pezzo exhibition finished its cycle last week but his work can be seen at his website www.rolandodalpezzo.com.
The new photo exhibit at Biscayne Bay Campus Gallery, by Lissette Schaeffler, “Familiar Intimacy,” started on March 1 and will go on for the next three weeks.
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