Yanira Ambert

Yanira Ambert is an award-winning artistic photographer. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Richmond University in London, England. In 1998 she won the Bienal Internacional de Fotografia in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and her work was exhibited at the El Sur Gallery in New York City later that year. Yanira has traveled extensively throughout Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and North and South America. Her images are influenced by her travels and reflect the diversity of the people and landscapes she has encountered in her evocative journeys. She currently lives with her husband and young daughter in Miami, Florida.

Yanira Ambert is an award-winning artistic photographer. She received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Richmond University in London, England.

Wordstock: current exhibition Sep 18th- Nov 21st 2014

“Wordstock” is a mother-daughter collaboration created over a period of fifteen years. The work features text and accompanying images that speak to the human condition and social issues that have come to define our culture.

Word-stock is counter-seduction, an act of aesthetic rebellion that intends to seduce the viewer with words and images with strong meaning. Word-stock captivates the senses and the intellect. This stock of words and images links vigorous visual imagery to the deep meaning and power of language.
Seduction occurs every time we pass a billboard or see a commercial flash on TV. Our eyes cannot help themselves. We read and take in potentially powerful words and images that have been robbed of their value. Happiness, love, life: words with potent emotional and intellectual content are rendered meaningless by senseless repetition and placement in banal contexts. Happiness springs from clothes with a designer label; love flourishes from wearing the right watch.

This is the second collaboration; the previous one was an exhibition titled “Habito tu Hombre,” based on Alba’s poetry, which won the Bienal Internacional de Fotografia in San Juan, Pue...