Emmanuel Levasseur is a photographer based in Orlando, originally from Haiti. He creates images of people through portraits and a documentary style, where his work explores the beauty of everyday life. Using a mixture of film and digital photography, he maintains a strong focus on light and composition.

In this exhibition, he presents L’union fait la force, a portrait of his brother featuring the Haitian flag at a mural in Pine Hills—an area with a high concentration of the Haitian population. Through this work, he hopes viewers will gain a better understanding of Haitian culture and what it means to the community. The Haitian flag serves as a vital reminder to connect with one another, regardless of which community we are in.

Through his photography, Emmanuel aims to capture people in their most authentic state. His style is influenced by a variety of sources as he is currently in the early stages of his career, continuously learning and exploring from the people he encounters.

Jeremy is a photographer based in Orlando, Florida. Originally from New York City, he relocated in 2020 and withdrew from active practice for several years, describing the period as necessary preparation — learning the rhythms of a place before presuming to record them. He returned to analog photography in 2025, working with available light and film processes in which grain and tonal range function as structural conditions of the image rather than stylistic effects. His practice engages the American documentary tradition while remaining attentive to the formal possibilities of vernacular environments and to the ethical demands of photographing Black communities with interiority and care.

The photographs are made in Orlando’s historic Black neighborhoods amid accelerated urban transformation. Attentive to domestic thresholds, commercial facades, and the accumulated evidence of long habitation, the work situates photography as measured witness — an act of presence within landscapes subject to redevelopment and erasure. Presented within (RE)FRAME: Zone of Appearance, the series records these neighborhoods at a moment of visible pressure, establishing the photographic image as both inventory and proof of continued life.