The Big Picture Vol. VII
Barbara Jo Revelle - Tampa's Seventh Photographer Laureate

Barbara Jo Revelle uses the vérité or “street-shooting” style of photography, which captures people in groups in a “decisive moment.” She spent hundreds of hours in crowded places where the public gathers to be part of a community or to have fun. In addition to producing 72 images, Revelle compiled a video collage juxtaposing approximately 450 of the still images taken in Tampa in 2009 and asked the deceptively simple question: “How is it going with you these days?” Regarding the responses she received from this question, Revelle states, “I was very often astonished by the mix of street-savvy, earnestness, unconventional wisdom, crack-pot ideas and wonderful stories.” View the video here.
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