Photo Salon is a group of local professional and emerging photographers who have been meeting at the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach for two years. The group was founded by Marie Marzi, an instructor at the Armory, and a nationally published photojournalist.

Members of the Salon have been sharing and critiquing each other’s work over this time. They realized that many of their photographs captured the beauty, the charm, the people, places and things they’ve found most interesting in South Florida, and that many of these things were quickly disappearing.

So the idea for Vanishing Florida was born. The purpose of this show is to bring to your hearts and minds the receding images of our local community. This show includes our varied and personal interpretations of a place that is quickly changing. Many of these scenes may be gone next time you look.

Here we present "Vanishing Florida": eroding beaches and failing seawalls, vintage buildings and architecture, endangered wildlife, small towns, and the natives who have long called this state home. We bring to you the texture, color, humor, symbols, and more from the vanishing Florida we love, and hope they serve to remind you of the beauty that brought us here and keeps us here.

The show is juried by Charles Stainback. Mr. Stainback is the William and Sarah Ross Soter Curator of Photography at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida. Previously, he was the Dayton Director of the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery and Professor of Liberal Studies at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York

Vanishing Florida opened at the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach on Friday night, October 9, 2009.