Justus Parmar & Joseph Magazine on Fortuna Investments, Miami’s Growth and Public-Private Leadership | Photography by Mary Beth Koeth for Miami Living Magazine

Photographing people over the years is one of the greatest gifts of this work. I first met Justus several years ago during his first Miami Beach shoot for his company Fortuna, and somewhere between the business portraits and the nonstop laughter, a real friendship formed.

Since then, I’ve photographed their beautiful family, watched their world grow, and had the joy of seeing his wife Elisia again at this shoot helping behind the scenes like the powerhouse she is. Good people. Good energy. The kind of people who make the work feel alive.

I only work with people I genuinely like and respect. Life is too short to build anything meaningful around anything else.