{"id":4794,"date":"2017-12-06T20:09:53","date_gmt":"2017-12-07T00:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/?p=4794"},"modified":"2018-05-13T18:44:15","modified_gmt":"2018-05-13T22:44:15","slug":"photographer-leaves-imprint-on-daytona-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/photographer-leaves-imprint-on-daytona-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Photographer leaves imprint on Daytona State"},"content":{"rendered":"

Michele Meyers
\nIn Motion Staff Writer<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease cut me off if I talk too much,\u201d laughed Carlos Betancourt as he shared fond memories of his childhood.\u00a0 He sat with James Pearson, director of the Southeast Museum of Photography, in front of the Madorsky Theater crowd at his exhibit\u2019s November 9 reception.\u00a0 \u201cI was born and raised in Puerto Rico of Cuban parents and we lived there \u2019til I was about fifteen.\u00a0 My mother tells me I was always interested in art.\u00a0 Puerto Rico was a place where the culture had been mixing and blending for centuries and I think that\u2019s where my interest in photography collage was nurtured.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Paige Petersen and her roommate check out Amulet for Light I (Gold) as Carlos Betancourt chats with one of his constituents.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Carlos Betancourt:\u00a0 Imprinted<\/i> exhibit opened at the Southeast Museum of Photography on October 17 and can be experienced through December 9. Professor Gary Monroe of the Daytona State College photography program and a close friend of Betancourt, planted the seed of the exhibition with Pearson who in turn drove to Miami to meet with the artist.\u00a0 \u201cWe would not be here if we did not feel a sense of home,\u201d explained Carlos\u2019 partner and artistic collaborator, Alberto Latorre.\u00a0 Carlos referred to Alberto as his dream maker during the lecture.\u00a0 \u201cThat is the first time he has ever called me that, \u201c he smiled.<\/p>\n

Nelson Fuentes, a second semester student of the photography program, gazed at a circular blue collage nestled in the corner of the exhibit.\u00a0 It is printed on glass and is an assemblage of Betancourt\u2019s memories. \u00a0 \u201cThis is my favorite piece.\u00a0 My first response to it was a longing.\u00a0 I get choked up just describing it.\u00a0 It was about again, memory.\u00a0 It reminded me of my mother.\u00a0 Of all his pieces, that\u2019s the piece that brought me in because the other pieces are exploding outwardly.\u201d\u00a0 In many of his pieces, Betancourt uses images from his personal collection of clipart.\u00a0 He has well over 10,000 images which he has fastidiously photographed, removed the background and saved to his library.\u00a0 He then retrieves select images from his archive for use in the creative process of photography collage.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the sooner you embrace your identity, where you come from, your family, your background, the sooner you embrace it; the good and the bad and stay with the good, \u00a0 be an optimist, select it, honor it, I think the faster you figure out who you are, what your voice is.\u00a0 This applies to everything from a gardner, an artist, an architect.\u00a0 Go back to that place and I mean stop for a second and embrace who you are and not what pop culture is telling you to be.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michele Meyers In Motion Staff Writer \u201cPlease cut me off if I talk too much,\u201d laughed Carlos Betancourt as he shared fond memories of his childhood.\u00a0 He sat with James Pearson, director of the Southeast Museum of Photography, in front of the Madorsky Theater crowd at his exhibit\u2019s November 9 Continue reading Photographer leaves imprint on Daytona State<\/span>→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4794"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4795,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794\/revisions\/4795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daytonastateinmotion.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}