An Unflinching Look: Elegy for a Landscape  Opening Reception

Exhibition June 13 - July 25, 2026

An Unflinching Look: Elegy for a Landscape, Photographs by Benjamin Dimmitt

Curated by Noel Smith

June 13, 5–9 PM: Opening Reception for An Unflinching Look: Elegy for a Landscape

• 6-7pm: Panel Conversation with Robin O’Dell, Executive Curator at Florida Museum of Photographic Arts; Mallory Dimmitt, CEO of the Florida Wildlife Corridor Foundation; and Ethan Coyle, Conservation Photographer; moderated by Curator Noel Smith.

You are invited to Wild Space Gallery for the opening of An Unflinching Look: Elegy for a Landscape followed by a moderated panel conversation exploring Dimmitt’s photography. His exquisite black-and-white images of the Chassahowitzka River and National Wildlife Refuge reveal beauty, change, and loss. Panelists will discuss how conservation photography and rephotography can be used as strategies to document long-term environmental change and motivate action.

Whether your passion is conservation, art, or Florida’s distinctive landscapes and wild spaces, this event offers meaningful connections, and inspiration. We look forward to welcoming you!

This exhibition is made possible through the support of the Ruth and J O Stone Foundation along with generous sponsorship from Bradley S. and Marta E. Pollitt and Family

Featured Events:

June 13, Second Saturday 5-9 pm: Opening reception An Unflinching Look: Elegy for a Landscape.

• 6-7pm: Artist panel conversation, moderated by Noel Smith

June 24, 5-8pm: Authors Series: Hilary Flower presents The Kite and the Snail: An Endangered Bird, Its Unlikely Prey, and a Story of Hope in a Changing World.

• 6-7pm: Author Presentation, followed by a book signing and reception

July 11, Second Saturday 5-9 pm.

• 6-7pm: In the Presence of Water: A Conversation with Jason Lauritsen and Rick Lanese