Photoville Festival 2026

By Way of Water

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

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An immersive container installation that transforms the sea from a site of rupture into a living cosmological archive. Step into the sea as memory, ritual, and ancestral passage.

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Fight Like A Girl

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

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Fighting fiercely and without reservation, the women boxers in this series discover and expand the limits of not only their determination, will, and bodies, but of society’s expectations for them.

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Birds of a Feather

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

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Birds of a Feather is an interactive, large-scale outdoor book sculpture that reimagines Claire’s recent photography book. Inspired by the large scale of Audubon’s Elephant Folio, the work takes the familiar intimacy of a book and expands it into an unexpected scaled object designed for collective engagement.

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A Great Day in Ñiu Yor

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

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A Great Day in Ñiu Yor (AGDÑY) is a photography community project amplifying the voices, achievements, and collective presence of Latine and Indigenous artists, leaders, and change-makers in New York City.

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MEMORIAL ’76

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

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A photographic time capsule of a pre-gentrified South Brooklyn Memorial Day parade that preserves a neighborhood and a moment now largely vanished.

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Framing Fatherhood: A Celebration of Black Fathers

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

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A love letter in images, Framing Fatherhood: A Celebration of Black Fathers gathers the work of 15 prominent Black male photographers to declare, with tenderness and defiance, that Black joy, Black legacy, and Black fatherhood demand to be witnessed.

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May162026

Opening Night: Boroughs in Focus

As the sun sets on the East River, we invite you to join us under the Brooklyn Bridge for a night of unique and brilliant visual stories from over 35 photographers centering the city we all love.

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May162026

Botanical Imprints: Cyanotype with Medicinal Plants

Cyanotypes and Herbalism: Art from Nature

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May162026

VR activation with Doctors Without Borders

Immerse yourself in a 360-degree virtual reality experience as you listen to the powerful words of a Sudanese doctor forced to flee his home.

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May172026

Tintype Portrait Booth

Have your portrait taken at Penumbra Foundation’s Tintype Portrait booth!

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May172026

20/20: 20 Years, 20 Photos – A Walk and Talk with the Pulitzer Center

Please join the Pulitzer Center to hear about the role photography has played in our 20-year history, and our vision for the next 20!

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May232026

Wet Nose Pawject Paw-Pup

Let the Best In Show strut their stuff in Wet Nose Pawject’s Paw-Pup Pawtrait Studio

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Opening Weekend Community Celebration

May 16 & 17 in Brooklyn Bridge park

To celebrate the opening of the festival, Photoville will present a free Community Weekend (May 16 and 17), a visual storytelling event bringing various artists to Brooklyn Bridge Park, featuring 65 exhibitions and free public programming from VSCO, the Penumbra Foundation, Doctors Without Borders, Creatively Wild, and Cynthia Santos Briones. As you take in all the festivities, we invite you to relax at the Leica Camera Lounge, or grab a bite at our Smorgasburg pop-up.

Join us on opening night, Saturday May 16, for Boroughs In Focus, a special presentation of photos projected on the Brooklyn Bridge featuring photo collections highlighting New York’s five unique boroughs from over 35 photographers.