Ray Parra (b. 1990 Venezuelan)is a photographer currently based in South Florida. His work focuses on the ordinary: empty streets, worn architecture, people passing through spaces without noticing them. The photographs don’t try to beautify. Instead, they ask what gets ignored, what stays after the crowd leaves, and how light changes the meaning of a place.

Recent projects have taken him within the US to Miami, New York and the San Francisco Bay Area, in Europe to Romania, Italy, Spain and France. Each series documents how people move through their environment, whether it’s crowded sidewalks at night or quiet shorelines during the day. The recurring thread is attention to the banal, the in between, and the accidental moments that reveal more than the planned ones.

He holds an MFA in Visual Arts and a BFA in Photography from Miami International University of Art and Design. His work has been exhibited at Studio 58, Borders Gallery, and Miami International University, with two self-published books: Signos (2018) and Impermanence (2019). Currently, he’s expanding into sports photography while continuing long term personal work that examines space, light, and the relationship between people and the structures they inhabit