Presented by: The Alice Austen House
A Map of the World is a collaborative portrait project inspired by a short stretch of beach on Staten Island’s South Shore and the community drawn to it. Beginning two years after the deep isolation of the pandemic and amid a tense political climate in the United States, the project emerged from a desire to reconnect—with people, place, and shared space.
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While frequently photographed, this body of work turns away from spectacle to focus on the cultural identity of Staten Island’s community. It is the people, passengers and crew alike, whose quiet perseverance imbues the crossing with meaning.
Learn MorePresented by: Jon McCormack, Photoville, and South Street Seaport Museum
“Elements of Wonder: When Nature Becomes Art” invites a slow and attentive way of seeing. These images ask us to pause, to look more deeply, and to remember our place within a living, breathing system far larger than ourselves.
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Fault Lines brings together the work of first- and second-year MFA Photography students at Parsons School of Design, offering a collective snapshot of a program grounded in experimentation, critical inquiry, and the continual redefinition of photographic practice. Positioned within an innovative fine arts and experimentaframework, the MFA challenges students to push beyond conventional image-making, engaging photography as a fluid, expanded field that intersects with installation, moving image, sculpture, and emerging technologies.
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From New York to the Himalayas, people from around the world capture their soccer lives and communities.
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Scientists say that the fires ravaging the western United States are burning differently these days. For photographer Matt Black, documenting the aftermath requires a new approach as well.
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Bolivia has been considered a society that preserves its traditions and culture. However, a large community of young Bolivians has created its own culture, which contrasts with traditional Bolivian society.
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This photographic series explores the subtle boundary between invitation and distance within domestic space. Most of the subjects are portrayed in their living rooms—the area traditionally reserved for receiving guests—positioning the viewer as a visitor momentarily welcomed into an intimate environment.
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My Love Letter to Queens explores the life and energy of Queens, New York, through street photographs that spotlight the everyday, the vibrant, and the quietly remarkable in the borough’s daily rhythm.
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By capturing the same thing from very different perspectives, a NASA astronaut and an intrepid photographer create a whole new way of seeing our world.
Learn MorePresented by: The Hudson Yards Hell's Kitchen Alliance & Photoville
Using a hand held mirror in locations around New York, photographer Stefan Falke invites distant buildings, structures, or other visuals into the main photo to create a viewing experience that requires a second look. His goal is to visually loosen up the obvious, to create images that will surprise and intrigue the viewer, and himself.
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A Japanese photographer hacked his camera—and revealed a strange and curious scene right underfoot.
Learn MorePresented by: The Remsen Wolff Collection and Photoville, with additional support by DutchCultureUSA
Remsen Wolff (1940-1998) was a New York artist and poet who created the “Special Girls – A Celebration” series in the 1990s, featuring portraits of individuals challenging gender from Amsterdam and New York.
“I insist on having their beauty shown,” – Remsen Wolff, 1998.
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The Bedroom Series considers the female bedroom as both refuge and record, a space that holds the emotional weight of becoming. Through light and shadow, each photograph reflects the tension between expectations of maturity and the persistence of innocence.
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Over the past year, this project documents the ongoing repainting of the Verrazzano–Narrows Bridge, observing a familiar landmark in a prolonged state of transition.
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The Community Gardener Portrait Project features portraits and accompanying interview excerpts produced over the past eight years by Zachary Schulman. The project explores the creation, stewardship, and impact of community gardens and gardeners across New York City.
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ICP at THE POINT: The Shape of Our Stories is an exhibition of photographs by students from the International Center of Photography’s partnership with THE POINT CDC.
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The Wild Within brings new life to abandoned architectural spaces.
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I turn my lens toward Staten Island, a place that exists on the edge of New York City and yet feels worlds apart. The island’s contradictions fascinate me: its deep-rooted sense of community alongside political division, its suburban quiet against the backdrop of the city’s noise.
Learn MoreFor her acclaimed Pit Bull Flower Power series, Sophie Gamand photographed adoptable shelter pit bulls. The portraits led to countless adoptions, and spurred efforts to destigmatize an animal whose reputation for violence might say more about humans than the dogs themselves.
Learn MoreThe Climate Museum presents Someday, all this, an epic postcard mural by artist David Opdyke that challenges how we understand our past and calls us to action for brighter futures.
Learn MoreKlaus Enrique’s The Arcimboldo Series brings a fantasy back to life.
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