Best Photographer


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Julie Lara Kahn
www.juliekahn.com

 Julie Lara Kahn, a Miami-bred and Harvard-educated photographer and video artist, took her respective lenses deep into parts of Florida few dare to travel for her culinary exhibit Swamp Cabbage: Cracker Culture in a Fast-Food Nation. The show, which had a six-week run at Locust Projects in Miami earlier this year, combined photos, video and sound recorded from hunts for wild game in Central Florida towns. Swamp Cabbage opened with a tasting of a number of backwoods delicacies typically culled from the hunt, including gator tail, smoked mullet and wild hog sausage. Kahn's collection of images not only exposed gallerygoers to a world they might not otherwise visit but also served up a stark contrast to the mass-produced foods we buy at supermarkets. Kahn's name broke on the local scene in 2002 at the first Art Basel with Open Season Miami, a compilation of 88 trading cards featuring artists that were handed out by barely dressed cigarette girls. The cheeky stunt tipped her hand as an artist who knows how to get people's attention and then keep it with original, illuminating work.