Award winning Brazilian-American visual artist Alissa Christine channels the true essence of beauty through her work and draws inspiration from the pure and simple joys of life. Recognized for her professional photography, Alissa's art spans mediums with innovative fusions of photography, lighting, movement, painting, sculpture and display... sometimes performed live.

"i love miami 365® : daily photo documentary" is a year-long photo project where every day of 2008 was photographed by Alissa Christine in celebration of life witnessed at any moment. Each photo is captioned with a personal commentary along with the title, date, time and place.

The mission: to stimulate consciousness and gratitude of the beauty of everyday life through photography. Alissa showcases her love of The Magic City weaving together thoughts and inspirations, cultures and diversions, friends and strangers, locations and vibrations -- including visions not typically seen in mass media. Some shoots were planned, some were guerilla encounters, and some days were serendipitous surprises.

The project also included interactive photo exhibits monthly throughout the year, with a self-produced grand finale aerial photo shoot of her celebration at the Standard Miami pool from an Ultralight airplane.

Accolades include being named one of the "Top 100 Power Players" of South Florida by Florida International Magazine, and winning first place in Fotomission's 2008 South Beach Photomarathon Competition. 104 contestants were assigned 6 topics to photograph on South Beach over a period of 5 hours. At the finish line, only 4 photos per topic were submitted per participant, straight from the camera, with no allowance for post-digital editing or retouching.

Other projects include a commissioned permanent photo/multimedia installation in each guest room of The Marlin Hotel in South Beach. Alissa Christine's photography has been published in National and International Magazines.

Creation for Alissa Christine is experiential and experimental & the evolution continues...