In Seeing Differently, Laura Paresky Gould thoughtfully considers color, line, and space in the architecture of her hometown. With eyes wide open, she makes profoundly moving images of Miami's built environment.

– Franklin Sirmans, Director, Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)

Most photographers project an illusion of depth onto a two-dimensional plane. In Seeing Differently, Laura Paresky Gould is having none of that. She isolates sun-dazzled elements of Miami’s built environment and irons them flat. The magic lies in the photographer’s uncanny knack for tapping into the mutuality of ineffable visual experience.

– Tom Finkel, Editor-in-Chief, Miami New Times

The photographs that make up Laura Paresky Gould’s Seeing Differently are love letters to Miami, each unique, improbable, intimate, and delightful.

– Sarah Harrelson, founder and editor-in-chief,  Cultured Magazine

Laura Paresky Gould actively looks at what is not immediately visible to many of us: shapes, lines, curves, and, most importantly, color. She uses this consciousness to show people how to see joy in the everyday world.

– Silvia Karman Cubiñá, Executive Director, The Bass

“Seeing Differently is a vibrant journey through our colorful destination offering an engaging visual feast. Laura Paresky Gould's attention to detail is masterful, painting a vivid and nuanced picture of every sight explored. The book is a celebration of color, beauty, and invites audiences to see Miami through a kaleidoscope of dynamic hues as unique and diverse as our communities.”

– Dan Rios, Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau

Sometimes, at first glance, it does not even seem to be a photograph…she manages to look at the real world and make it look like a drawing that just came out of her work table.

– FrizziFrizzi Magazine

In Seeing Differently, Laura gives us a roadmap for how to use our eyes as a means of becoming more present, to better appreciate even the most quotidian surroundings. She instills both the methods and confidence to capture striking imagery. But whether or not you apply her teachings to photography, you will learn how noticing is a form of mindfulness.

– Laura Rubin, creative coach and journaling expert

“No one has shot the city more intimately than artist, photographer, and graphic designer Laura Paresky Gould… She captures the colorful shapes and shadows of the city's unique architecture and composes them as if they were works of modern, abstract art.”

– Miami New Times

Laura Paresky Gould’s Seeing Differently is an exquisite compilation and a lesson in visual mindfulness. Gould beautifully frames the unexpected, appreciates commonplace juxtapositions, and filters out the distractions of daily life by focusing on the unique architectural characteristics that make Miami magical.

– James Voorhies, Curator, The Bass

Laura Paresky Gould explores the beauty of the Magic City's architecture, colors and shapes through incredible iPhone shots. Highlighting the locale's myriad of Art Deco geometries, even light and vivid hues, Gould celebrates the visual joy of South Florida.

– Cultured Magazine