Staten Island jazz is taking center stage! The HERShot Girls Collective, Universal Temple of the Arts, and Snug Harbor have joined forces to celebrate the incredible local talent in our community.
This year, HERShot! launched “Inspired By,” a program led by founder Nataki Alexander-Hewling. Under her guidance, the girls explore new styles and sharpen their creative skills to produce impactful photography.
Community-driven projects—like the Jazz is Staten Island series by Snug Harbor Cultural Center and the Universal Temple of the Arts—offer a perfect canvas for the collective. These stories inspire the girls to frame their own unique perspectives and celebrate local culture through their lenses.
Organizations
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HERShot! Productions
HERShot is a girls’ photography collective dedicated to empowering young creators to document their communities through visual storytelling. Our current New York roster features talented photographers like Breea, Mya, Madison, Alexandria, and Shyla, while our growing alumni network continues to collaborate with us on professional projects well into their college years.
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Photoville
Founded in 2011 in Brooklyn, NY, Photoville was built on the principles of addressing cultural equity and inclusion, which we are always striving for, by ensuring that the artists we exhibit are diverse in gender, class, and race.
In pursuit of its mission, Photoville produces an annual, city-wide open air photography festival in New York City, a wide range of free educational community initiatives, and a nationwide program of public art exhibitions.
By activating public spaces, amplifying visual storytellers, and creating unique and highly innovative exhibition and programming environments, we join the cause of nurturing a new lens of representation.
Through creative partnerships with festivals, city agencies, and other nonprofit organizations, Photoville offers visual storytellers, educators, and students financial support, mentorship, and promotional & production resources, on a range of exhibition opportunities.
For more information about Photoville visit, www.photoville.com
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PhotoWings
PhotoWings believes that photography has the power to influence the world. As such, we invest in strategic collaborations and programs that help make photography better understood, created, utilized, seen and saved. We also have a rich archive with hundreds of hours of original interviews and partner presentations from both within and outside the photo world, as well as curricula, tool kits, resources and community activities. We believe that meaningful engagement with photography can foster deep thinking, communication and help people better understand and navigate the world.
PhotoWings has been a proud partner of the Eddie Adams Workshop since 2015, and of Catchlight and Photoville since 2017.
A Great Day: Jazz is Staten Island!
Featuring: Various Artists
Curated by: Nataki Hewling
Supported by:
Locations
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Brooklyn, NY 11201
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The views and opinions expressed in this exhibit are those of the exhibition artists and partners and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of Photoville or any other participants and partners of the Photoville Festival.
Nataki Alexander Hewling, Founder of The HERShot Girls Photography Collective; Rashida Ladner-Seward of the Universal Temple of the Arts; Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden; all the jazz musicians who participated; and the talented HERShot crew: Breea, Mya, Madison, Alexandria, and Shyla.
Recipient of the 2026 Photoville & PhotoWings Educator Exhibition Grant.
