Get nearer to nature with MIA’s latest artwork exhibition

Passengers in Miami International Airport’s Concourse D can now get much more up shut and private with nature with out leaving the airport, because of famed South Florida photographer and artist Iran Issa-Khan’s newest exhibition Closer: Photographs by Iran Issa-Khan.

On view by means of April 5, 2026, at MIA’s CameraWorks gallery at gates D22 and D25, the exhibition options 9 beforehand unexhibited black-and-white pictures of vegetation, highlighting the intricate buildings, extraordinary particulars, and gorgeous great thing about nature. Characterized by a profound contemplation and admiration of nature’s innermost particulars, Closer goals to encourage hurried vacationers to pause and admire the sweetness that impressed the artist.  

Issa-Khan was born in Tehran and raised throughout Iran, Europe, and the United States. In 1999, she relocated to South Florida, the place she started to concentrate on capturing the fantastic thing about nature, particularly flowers, seashells, and coral. Her nature pictures has been exhibited in main cities, together with New York, London, and Paris, and featured in publications like Veranda and Luxe. A retrospective guide of her work, IRAN ISSA-KHAN Photographs, was revealed in 2011, with a foreword by longtime good friend Zaha Hadid.

In the Nineteen Eighties and Nineties, Issa-Khan captured iconic figures corresponding to Paulina Porizkova, Andie MacDowell, and Christy Turlington, along with her work featured in famend publications like Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue. Her spectacular consumer record consists of celebrities, politicians, and high-profile figures, corresponding to Nancy Reagan, the Ferragamo and Fendi households, Diane von Furstenberg, Carolina Herrera, and Paloma Picasso, with whom she shot advertisements and covers for 25 years.

CameraWorks is an area devoted to exhibitions of fantastic artwork pictures, together with mixed-media pictures and photo-based works by rising and established artists based mostly in South Florida. MIA Galleries, established in 1996, is the humanities and exhibitions program at MIA, managed by the Miami-Dade Aviation Department’s Division of Fine Arts and Cultural Affairs. Our mission is to boost the journey atmosphere by presenting exhibitions and showcasing works that commemorate the wealthy tradition, various panorama, and inventive sources of the area people. MIA Galleries goals to raise the passenger expertise by curating a visually stimulating ambiance that’s up to date, thought-provoking, and reflective of the cultural depth and creativity of the South Florida area.