Arts and Culture

Ira Wagner

Anastasia Samoylova’s Atlantic Coast (Aperture, 2025)  retraces Berenice Abbott’s 1954 photographic journey along the Eastern Seaboard, documenting dislocation, loss, and a shifting American dream. Samoylova's work will be exhibited and discussed.

Born in Miami Beach in 1953, Sweet documented the life in Miami Beach and on Ocean Drive in the 70's and 80's Sweet was witness to a unique time in the history of his hometown...

The Betsy proudly presents over 250 works shot by Bob Bonis, Road Manager of both The Beatles and The Rolling Stones during their first US tours.

Carlos Andres Cruz is a professional dog photographer based in Bogota, Colombia. On a visit to see family in Miami Beach a few years ago, Carlos serendipitously came across Katie and Betsy, our hotel’s CEOs (Canine Executive Officers), playing ball on the beach.

Charlie Spot (b.1994) is an emerging London based artist who began his career in 2019. He specializes in light box and street photography taken in the UK, Europe, US and Asia.

 Dahlia Dreszer (Panama) is a photo-based artist living and working in Miami, Florida. She graduated from Emory University with a background in Media and Photography. Her work explores identity, memory, and cultural heritage through large-format photography and immersive installations that blur the line between reality and artifice. Using carefully constructed still-life arrangements, Dahlia weaves together personal narratives with broader cultural histories.

David Godlis, who is best known by his last name GODLIS, has been photographing in New York City since 1976. A “street photographer” in the style of Diane Arbus and Garry Winogrand, he wandered into the nightclub CBGB’s one night, and has become known for his photographs of the NYC Punk scene. GODLIS, who shot in the style of photographers Brassai and Robert Frank, used his handheld Leica camera and Tri-X film to capture his subjects by the natural light of the Bowery outside as well as inside the club CBGB’s.

Juan Carlos Zaldívar (Violenta Flores) is a filmmaker, video artist and professor. As sound designer, Z worked in Academy Nominated films (Ang Lee's "Sense and Sensibility;" "On the ropes”), and on HBO’s America Undercover, for which they garnered an Emmy nomination.