Gallery Opening: Cira Crowell "Sublime Light"

ABOUT THIS EVENT

Kick off Art Basel weekend with Leica Store Miami on Thursday, December 4, 2025 at 7 PM EST as we celebrate the opening of Cira Crowell's exhibition "Sublime Light." Over the past decade, photographer Cira Crowell has trekked 2,000 miles in the Himalayas with her Leica SL-System, photographing extreme elevations and summiting technical peaks.

Her exhibition at Leica Store Miami features 13 black and white portraits of peaks including Everest, Kangchenjunga, Annapurna, Makalu, Manaslu, Imja, Kangtega and Cholatse.

"Phenomenal" - Everest Massif, 2019, Leica SL (Everest 8,850m/29,032ft)

ABOUT "SUBLIME LIGHT"

"Sublime Light” is a celebration of mountain photographs made over ten years in the High Himalayas by photographer, film producer, and mountaineer Cira Crowell. Over the past decade Cira has photographed at extreme elevations. She has summited four technical Himalayan peaks over 20,000ft/6,000m and in 2022 was the first American-born woman to summit Kangchenjunga at 28,169ft/8,586m. The digital SL System has accompanied Cira on many of these treks and has proven to be a powerful, flexible, trustworthy tool that reflects the immensity, transcendence and fierce beauty of the highest and most remote peaks on earth.

Image by Alan Shaffer

ABOUT CIRA CROWELL

Cira Crowell is an accomplished photographer and film producer dedicated to combining her passion for Art, Adventure, and Awareness. Her film “Dream Mountain” won “Best Mountainfilm” at the London Mountain Film Festival and has appeared in 25 top-tier international festivals including seven Mountainfilm Alliance festivals and the Banff Mountain Film World Tour. “Dream Mountain” follows the inspiring story of mountaineer Pasang Lhamu Sherpa Akita as she summits Cholatse (6,446m/21,130ft) during a pivotal crux in her life. Leica cameras and lenses were instrumental in the making of the film.

Cira’s love for black and white photography was sparked thirty years ago by the legendary Leicaflex SL2, film predecessor of the current Leica SL system. While the SL is her go-to, she has used and/or completed professional projects with every major Leica system of the past century. For the past ten years Cira’s work has increasingly focused on mountains, from her home in the Rockies, to the Canadian Rockies, Alps, Japan, and the Himalayas.

"Ascending Spirit Mountain" - 2022, Leica SL2 (Manaslu 8,163m/26,781ft)

Even on extreme adventures Cira approaches her photographs with a poetic, philosophical eye, infusing images with technical detail as well as deep meaning. Her large-scale prints have been exhibited worldwide, most recently at Leica Gallery in Los Angeles. Three of Cira’s photographs are part of the corporate collection at Leica Camera USA.

If you would like to see more of Cira's work, please visit:

https://ciracrowell.com/

@CiraCrowell

@LeicaCrush

@dreammountainfilm