Presented by: The Seaport and Photoville
‘Chef’ not ‘Cook’: The Process to Plate is a photo series that tells the story of eight industry-leading African-American chefs across New York.
Learn MorePresented by: 1 in 6 by 2030 & Talking Eyes Media with support from Dutch Culture USA
1 in 6 by 2030 is a multi-year, global visual storytelling project, involving photographers around the world. Launched in 2023 by Ed Kashi, Ilvy Njiokiktjien and Sara Terry, all contributing photographers to the VII Foundation, 1 in 6 documents an unprecedented era in the history of humankind: by the year 2030, 1 in 6 people in the world will be over the age of 60.
Learn MorePresented by: NYC Department of Records and Information Services and New York Public Radio
This multimedia installation celebrates the one-hundred-year history of WNYC – beginning as New York City’s Municipal Broadcasting Station in 1924 and continuing as the City’s beloved public radio station today.
Learn MorePresented by: Social Documentary Network and Zeke Magazine
ZEKE Award first-place winners explore the Indigenous Evenki reindeer herders in northwest Russia and the forest guardians protecting the Peruvian jungle from illegal logging and development.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
A photo documentary unveiling the rich mosaic lives of American Muslims, challenging stereotypes and fostering empathy to promote inclusivity and understanding.
Learn MorePresented by: The Alice Austen House and Photoville
The Alice Austen House education team worked with PS 60, The Alice Austen School 4th Grade students on a photographic unit inspired by Alice Austen and their own cultural heritage.
Learn MorePresented by: The Washington Post
This retrospective of Joseph’s portrait work reveals how a photographer uses his craft to show there are no strangers in his world.
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Throughout these years, without planning it, my son Elías and I have constructed an extensive collection of fantastical beings that take shape in our images.
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Below the Big Top is a documentary about the Culpepper & Merriweather Great Combined Circus, a traditional, nomadic, one-ring family circus that lives on the road eight months out of the year.
Learn MorePresented by: The Alice Austen House
“Brady’s Pond” is an ongoing collection of images made from recurring walks through Staten Island’s sliver of public access land along the pond’s northeast shore.
Learn MorePresented by: The Seaport and Photoville
This project focusses on food security in Northern Canada, and the challenges in accessing nutritious, affordable food.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
Brought from Home is a two-part photo-documentary project on immigration and the complexities and symbolism of never truly leaving home.
Learn MorePresented by: Fresh Mercado and Photoville
Cafecito: Building Community to Break Barriers celebrates the work of 36 photographers who were Cafecito initiative participants, showcasing their stories of belonging and human connection. Cafecito demonstrates how the power of community and creativity can collectively inspire change for the current state of the intersectional creative industry.
Learn MorePresented by: Mother Jones, Economic Hardship Reporting Project, and Magnum Foundation
Unions are popular but facing decades of decline. We asked photographers to document this unique moment for the American worker.
Learn MorePresented by: Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF-USA)
Connecting threads is a multimedia exhibition presented by Doctors Without Borders and featuring photographs by Juan Carlos Tomasi that highlight the strength and determination of people on the move across the Americas. It’s also a call for a more humane response to migration.
Learn MorePresented by: The Pulitzer Center
In this Pulitzer Center-supported photo story, Judith Surber gives a firsthand account of how the opioid epidemic has devastated her family and community on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation, photographed by Justin Maxon.
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In the heart of the Australian Outback, a 12-hour drive west of Sydney and three hours from the nearest supermarket, a small remote community lives in underground caves to shield themselves from the harsh climate of the desert.
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Emerging Lens: Safety, Visibility, Justice, and Hope for the Future is an interactive multimedia exhibition developed by Chicago and The Hague-based visual advocacy non-profit ART WORKS Projects, which explores the ways new and emerging documentary photographers covering underrepresented stories across the globe have pushed the boundaries of traditional photojournalism and storytelling to address pressing and under-reported human rights issues around the world and connect them to local communities.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
“End of the Line” is a composite portrait of New York City through the lens of the 44 communities that lie at the last stops of NYC subway lines, from the Rockaways to the Bronx to Staten Island.
Learn MorePresented by: Léman Manhattan Preparatory School & Photoville, in parternship with PhotoWings
Students explored surrealism through digital collage, delving into the subconscious and absurd. They questioned reality, symbolism, and emotions, creating captivating artworks. Peer feedback and artist statements fostered reflection, pushing creativity boundaries.
Learn MorePresented by: The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting & Diversify Photo
This compilation of work supported by the Pulitzer Center and Diversify Photo explores themes of erasure, injustice, and resilience in the face of climate change—taking viewers to climate-affected communities from the sunny hills of Southern California to fading coastlines in Mexico and melting glaciers in Peru.
Learn MorePresented by: The Alice Austen House
“Far Apart” is a photographic love letter to Shore Road Park, a narrow strip of playgrounds, wooded paths, and ball fields in Brooklyn that overlooks Staten Island and the Verrazano Narrows, the waterway that leads into New York Harbor.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville with additional support by Epson
Finding Home is a project about the reestablishment of the 273 students and staff of Afghanistan’s National Institute of Music in Portugal.
Learn MorePresented by: The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture & Photoville
Of the thousands of photographs and prints by Morgan and Marvin Smith in the Schomburg Center’s collections, this exhibition highlights a brief survey of sports snapshots from the 1930s–1950s. From American Negro League baseball team players sliding into home plate to collegiate star-athlete footballers dodging tackles across the field, these photographs document a pivotal era in American sports history.
Learn MorePresented by: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
Every time Bea Lubas feels homesick, she will cook or bake from one of her mum’s recipes. It transports her back in time, brings back sweet childhood memories, and always comforts her soul.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville, with additional support by Dutch Culture USA's Future 400 Initiative
The project “From the streets to the heart,” created by artist Ernst Coppejans, documents the lives of homeless LGBTQIA+ youth in NYC, aiming to raise awareness about their struggles. Through poignant visuals and personal interviews, the project showcases their resilience and challenges. As LGBTQIA+ rights face unprecedented threats, it serves as a call to action. Visit fromthestreetstotheheart.com for more.
Learn MorePresented by: Hudson Yards Hell's Kitchen Alliance & Photoville
Gestalten is a collection of photographs of temporary sculptures portraying people wearing their complete possessions of clothing, weaving a vivid tapestry of human identity, material belongings, and personal narratives, inviting viewers to reflect on the intimate relationship between attire, memory, and individual expression.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
Despite facing intense surveillance from China, the residents of Thitu island serve as a symbol of resistance for the Philippines.
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Migrant Herbalism is a project that examines the belief system of traditional Indigenous and Afro-descendant Latin American medicine and how their knowledge, healing practices, and rituals have migrated with forced displacement to the United States.
Learn MorePresented by: Hudson Yards Hell's Kitchen Alliance & Photoville
Following high school FIRST Robotics Competition teams participating in the 2023 season.
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A photographic journey through the golden age of hip-hop.
Learn MorePresented by: Anderson Ranch and Photoville
Home Reimaginings explores how we see/interpret concepts of home.
Learn MorePresented by: ICP at THE POINT
ICP at THE POINT: Our Stories, Our Light is an exhibition of photographs by students from the International Center of Photography’s partnership with THE POINT CDC, which celebrates local voices honoring the people, places, and things that keep us uplifted in our everyday lives.
Learn MorePresented by: MFON, MPB, and Photoville
Learn MorePresented by: Many Voices Press and Photoville
Eugene Richards draws from his latest book, In This Brief Life (2023), a collection of more than 50 years of mostly unseen photographs.
Learn MorePresented by: National Geographic
An ancient religion founded in Central Asia faces a vexing question: how to keep the fire of faith burning.
Learn MorePresented by: The Alice Austen House
Documentary photographs by Saskia Scheffer capturing the historic 1994 Lesbian Avengers protest at the Alice Austen Museum Park.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
As the journalism industry shrinks, this project captures local newsrooms to engage communities in the search of and support for trusted local news while raising awareness for a national audience that may not realize what has already been lost, and what is at stake.
Learn MorePresented by: The Bronx County Historical Society
“Los Inocentes (The Innocents)” is a documentary photoessay that focuses on the resiliency of children who live in urban communities in less-than-ideal circumstances, but who prevail and thrive beyond their environments in the South Bronx, Spanish Harlem (El Barrio), and the Lower East Side (Loisaida).
Learn MorePresented by Leica
“Made Of Smokeless Fire” is an exploration of LGBTQIA+ identities within Muslim culture in France, which are often underrepresented and simply ignored. France has the largest proportion of Muslims in the Western world, estimated at 8.8% of the population, or 5.57 million people. But islamophobia is still omnipresent
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
Material, by the artist Elizabeth Casasola, won Best Latam Women’s Project 2023 in Enfoque – Conecta Internationalization Platform and Network for Latin American Photography, Bogotá International Festival, Latin American Photography Foundation. It was also exhibited in the Second Javier Ramírez Limón Photography Contest at the Museo de Arte de Sonora.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville with additional support by the Phillip & Edith Leonian Foundation
Following the journey of migrant workers from their homeland in Michoacán, Mexico, across the US-Mexico border, and throughout America, in search of work and a better life for their families.
Learn MorePresented by: Arts Brookfield
Mineral Matter is a photography series by artist Brooke Holm that explores the interplay between Iceland’s dynamic river deltas and traces of humankind’s curiosity.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville, with additional support by Leica
MINJIMENDAN/REMEMBER honors the legacy of Nīa MacKnight’s great grandfather John B. McGillis by examining the complexities that McGillis faced as an Anishinaabe man navigating early 20th-century assimilation policies, as well as his devotion to expanding access for his people through acts of self-determination and joy.
Learn MorePresented by: Adobe Photoshop Lightroome
Some of Mother Nature’s most incredible moments are fleeting and unpredictable. Those “blink and you’ll miss it” moments are among the most special that we can experience in this life.
Learn MorePresented by: Magnum Foundation, PhotoKTM, and Aperture Foundation
Moonsongs for Earth offers a musical exploration of a decade-long war in Nepal: the dream for a just, egalitarian society and the subsequent betrayal.
Learn MorePresented by: SVA Masters in Digital Photography
“More New York Stories” features photo essays about the city that four current students or recent alumni of SVA’s Masters in Digital Photography department created for the program’s Editorial Photography class.
Learn MorePresented by: New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, Department of Photography & Imaging
The 2024 DPI BFA Thesis Exhibition presents 45 artistic thesis projects that go above and beyond traditional notions of the photograph, blurring the lines between mediums, materials, and fields of knowledge to redefine what it means to be a photographer, an artist, and a student in a constantly evolving world.
Learn MorePresented by: The Alice Austen House
I discovered the waterfront in my early twenties when I moved to Brooklyn. At the time, much of it was abandoned and falling apart. Knowing it would vanish, I felt an urge, almost a duty, to document it.
Learn MorePresented by: The National Press Photographers Association
The project is a curated selection from winners of NPPA’s annual Best of Photojournalism Competition.
Learn MorePresented by: Vital Impacts and Photoville, with additional support by Canson
‘Our Interconnected World’ showcases stunning images that are not just photographs; they are windows into ecosystems, cautionary tales of human impact, and visual invitations to take action.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville and the Amsterdam Museum, with additional support by Dutch Culture USA's Future 400 Initiative
Photoville presents a dialogue between two independently created, conceptually entwined projects: Dutch photographers recreate the styles of Rembrandt and his contemporaries with prominent models of color, countering the erasure of non-white people’s historic existence in the Netherlands, while American artist Kennedi Carter combines visual references to European royalty and nobility with contemporary Black aesthetics, exploring ideas of Blackness related to wealth, power, and belonging.
Learn MorePresented by: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
Step into my world of “Perspective Playgrounds”, taking you on a journey through urban illusions. My images invite you to explore urban landscapes through my lens of creative vision, redefining reality as a playground for imagination.
Learn MorePresented by: Red Hook Art Project & Photoville, with support from PhotoWings
“Portraits of Resilience in Red Hook” is an intergenerational photo portrait initiative intertwining personal narratives and innovative technology to foster community empowerment and understanding for an intergenerational collaboration.
Learn MorePresented by: A VOICE - Art Vision & Outreach In Community Education & Photoville, in parternship with PhotoWings
RezMade is an exhibition of current work by student photographers from the all-Tribal Our Community Record Two Eagle River School, Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes, in collaboration with A VOICE-Art Vision & Outreach In Community Education
Learn MorePresented by: The New York Times
Sara Krulwich, the theater photographer for The New York Times, has created a pictorial encyclopedia of New York City theater. Her visual coverage of that world has grown as legendary as the actors and productions that she photographs.
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This project demonstrates how elements of culture, such as traditional religious practices and dominant notions of beauty, grooming, and embellishment, influence fashion styles.
Learn MorePresented by: The VII Foundation, VII Community, and PhotoWings
Showcasing the significance of local stories in a global context through photographic explorations by selected members of VII Community, a program of The VII Foundation, in partnership with PhotoWings.
Learn MorePresented by: Cornell University, Cornell Migrations, The Worker Institute at Cornell University, National TPS Alliance, and Photoville
“Stories of Belonging” explores the history of TPS (Temporary Protective Status) workers, who are fully employed, have resided and worked in the U.S. for more than 25 years, and their struggle for their rights as migrant workers and for the right to American citizenship.
Learn MorePresented by: The Boys & Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County & Photoville, in partnership with PhotoWings
Success in Our Sights: 5 Years of Imagemaking showcases work by members of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County under the mentorship of Andrea Sarcos, who is creating the next generation of storytellers by empowering students to use photography to share their personal and cultural narratives.
Learn MorePresented by: The Seaport and Photoville
Thank You Please Come Again documents the culture of service stations serving as vital community hubs and gathering places across the American South.
Learn MorePresented by: Ocean City High School & Photoville, in partnership with PhotoWings
The Platon-inspired project aims to honor and support school staff, fostering connections and celebrating their humanity through empathy, authenticity, and storytelling.
Learn MorePresented by: THE NEW INSTITUTE Centre for Environmental Humanities (NICHE) at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice
Combining scientific research and personal stories, The Cooling Solution investigates how people from different socioeconomic backgrounds around the world adapt to rising temperatures and humidity, in the context of climate change.
Learn MorePresented by: National Geographic
In the spotted hyenas’ world, females rule. That may be the secret to their success.
Learn MorePresented by: Peak Design and Photoville
As we all age, our lives take unexpected twists and turns. Begun in 2003, The Lams of Ludlow Street is an exploration of how one family’s life continues to unfold in a 350 square-foot apartment in New York City’s Chinatown.
Learn MorePresented by: Vision Workshops and Photoville, with additional support by Leica
The Limitless Project introduces us to neurodiverse young people who help us understand, through the language of imagery, how they see the world.
Learn MorePresented by: The Photography Department at the High School of Art and Design
The photography students’ approach in “The Real and the Surreal” strives to ignite a sense of wonder and curiosity in the hearts of all who engage with the work, hoping to spark dialogue on the transformative power of art and the endless possibilities it offers for escape, introspection, and renewal.
Learn MorePresented by: ProPublica
Tennessee bans abortion in nearly all circumstances. But once the babies are here, the state provides little help. To chronicle what life truly looks like in a state whose political leaders say they are pro-life, we followed one woman for a year after she was denied an abortion for a life-threatening pregnancy.
Learn MorePresented by: The Bronx Documentary Center
The BDC Youth Photo League is a documentary photography and college success program serving middle through high school students.
Learn MorePresented by: High School of Art and Design & Photoville, in partnership with PhotoWings
Through Their Eyes: A Generation in Focus showcases emerging talent and the importance of arts education.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
This collection of images is a glimpse into Tekpatl’s relationship with traditional food systems and the natural world through his perspective and the teachings of others.
Learn MorePresented by: Parsons School of Design, The New School
This exhibition was curated from current students from the MFA Photography Program at Parsons School of Design in New York City.
Learn MorePresented by: National Geographic
Shining light through pinpricked images, a photographer illuminates Mexico’s comunidades originárias.
Learn MorePresented by: The New York Times
Thousands of young Ukrainians were separated from their parents by the Russian authorities in the early stages of the war. They are among the most forlorn victims of the invasion.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville, with support from Dutch Culture USA
Vivarium is a series of constructed dioramas by Dutch artist Dirk Hardy. For each Episode, Hardy meticulously designs, crafts and photographs a new world in his studio, creating meaningful narratives around topics like racial profiling, gender roles, modern working conditions and more.
Learn MorePresented by: Fotografiska New York
Vivian Maier: Unseen Work sheds new light on Maier’s dense and unique body of work, where street scenes, sidewalk chronicles, portraits, self-portraits, and gestures depict a precise record of the socio-political changes in New York and Chicago in the 1950s.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
“Waha واحة” (oasis in Arabic) is a four-year photographic research project aimed at understanding the complex relationship between people, their environment, and the history of the territories they inhabit.
Learn MorePresented by: The Seaport and Photoville
Lucia Bawot aims to shed light on the lives of Colombian women coffee farmers and pickers, challenging stereotypes and giving voice to those who have been silenced.
Learn MorePresented by: PhotoWings and Photoville
We Cry In Silence investigates cross-border trafficking of underage girls in South Asia for sex work and domestic servitude, and is an attempt to visibilise overlooked girls condemned to cry in silence.
Learn MorePresented by: GOOD MIRRORS, Black Women Photographers, WACO Theater Center, and Photoville
WITNESS explores the intersectional vantage point of the Black femme-identifying artist—inviting the viewer to bear witness to what they may not otherwise see on their own.
Learn MorePresented by: The Alice Austen House and Photoville
Dom Marker (b. Kharkiv, 1990) is a Ukranian-American artist. His emergent artistic practice is embedded in community activism and a post-documentary approach, focused on the war in Ukraine.
Learn MorePresented by: Melkweg Expo and Photoville, with additional support by Dutch Culture USA
Elizar Veerman is a Moluccan-Dutch photographic artist based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Over the past years he portrayed boys and men with a history of migration as they reclaimed space.
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