Photographic exhibitions - Michael Oster fine art images on exhibit.

Open now through August 2026

You can find my latest works on exhibition at the Carrollwood Cultural Center in Tampa. I’ll have dozens of images all from 2026 on display. These are all creative works. No client direction, no expectations, no agenda, no shot lists, no worries. Point the camera and bleed!

This is where I photograph only what I ‘feel’. Hard to explain, I know, and that’s the beauty of it. Art for the sake of creating, not for an audience. Not for ‘likes’. Just “I’m alive, and I am creating”.

Imagine locking yourself away in your bedroom. You have a few instruments, some song ideas and a 4-track (yes, I’m that old). You emerge some weeks later with an album. All original works. You play every instrument, engineer, mix, master, create the graphics, and release your work. That’s what I’ve done with this exhibition. Wasn’t exactly my intention going in, but that’s the closest that I can describe to what happened.

I photographed, edited (very minimally), printed (yes, all of the images were printed in my own studio), matted, framed, curated and hung. That’s a lot. And I’m pretty wiped out (set-up was yesterday 5/26). This was absolutely no easy task. And I’m happy to have done this and would love to share my work with you.

The Images - Every one of the images on display I photographed this year - 2026. Yes, I photograph a lot. So much, in fact, that I have many more 2026 images that could have been exhibited. Just not enough available wall space this time.

The Process - One press of the shutter. No composites. No double/multiple exposures. No “in-camera” tricks or hacks. Available light only.

Post Production - Minimal. Lightroom Classic. No plugins, presets, actions, looks. No generative ai.

Why do an exhibition? - It’s one thing to see a photograph on a screen. It’s entirely different to experience art in person.