Our banner this year will highlight the work of these brave journalists, and shed light on some of the difficulties faced by photojournalists around the world.
The exhibition “(Un)Bound” presents the work of four visual artists based in Rotterdam (The Netherlands) exploring the many written and unwritten rules defining boundaries and how they relate to our sense of freedom and belonging.
Learn MoreWe also believe that photos and stories can be powerful tools for social justice. With this exhibit, we hope to raise discussions around important and difficult questions on human rights and belonging in the US.
Learn MoreOur banner this year will highlight the work of these brave journalists, and shed light on some of the difficulties faced by photojournalists around the world.
‘A Beautiful Abstraction’ strives to express how I see the world around me and the beauty in unseen places. My work explores the blending together of different mediums, such as photography and painting, to ultimately seek a tranquil balance of humanity and abstraction.
Through photography, rare archival imagery and a documentary short, “A Climate for Conflict” explores the environmental roots of conflict in Somalia, and the ways its woes spill beyond its place on the map.
Learn MoreThis project focuses on undocumented Mexican immigrant women who came to New York decades ago in search of opportunity for their families. Overtime, they built their lives here and have become elders of their communities: the abuelas.
Learn More“Am I What You’re Looking For?” focuses on young women of color who are transitioning from the academic world into the corporate setting, capturing their struggles and uncertainties on how best to present themselves in the professional workspace.
The series uses the concept of a family tree to consider what it means to be part of a joint body; addressing sub-themes of intimacy vs loneliness, fear vs comfort, ‘sanity’ vs ‘insanity’, life and death.
“Apparatus of Discomfort” is an exploration of the photographic potential to reimagine relationships between bodies and feeling through abstraction, infrastructure, and identity.
This exhibition was curated from submissions to the 2017 ASMP Photo Annual. As always, there is a broad range of contributors and thus an interesting variety of work, from architecture to beauty, still life to street, personal and commercial to fine art. This exhibition goes a little way to demonstrating the impressive diversity of the ASMP community.
The big business of sports has separated us from the fundamental truth that the athletes we celebrate on the field are human beings off of it.
Learn MoreThe Marine Corps is about fighting and winning battles. That’s who we are and what we do.
Learn MoreMeet Mad Max Driver, Machette, Vibze, Ghost Rider, Red Devil, Lion and The Rasta Driver! These motor drivers proudly cruise through Nairobi wearing dazzling outfits on their matching bikes. The outfits are designed by Ugandan-Kenyan fashion designer Bobbin Case in the context of the collaborative project, “Boda Boda Madness” by Bobbin and Dutch artist Jan Hoek.
Learn MoreSix female photographers took to local bodies of water in Israel, Liberia, South Korea, Mexico, Russia and Iceland to discuss the nuances of body positivity and its cultural variations among women around the world.
Learn MoreThrough intimate photographs and dramatic drone footage, Josh Haner explores this pressing reality, bringing to light the life-changing effects of climate change in communities around the globe.
Learn MoreThe portrait of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad became a defining element in the urban landscape of Damascus, Syria. The omnipresence of an individual image leaves its imprint in people’s minds, making the physical image transcend into a visual impression. The presence of the leader is then extended to each individual living in the city.
Learn MoreThis is 2017. How can there still be rallies advocating hate? How can this mindset still exist? Where do we draw the line between “free speech” and “hate speech”?
Learn MoreThis exhibition explores social, cultural, and economic issues central to the Chinese people and captured through the eyes of Chinese photographers. It features the work of several visual storytellers published in Chinese media outlets, whose images piece together a nuanced view of this dynamic country, as they help China understand itself.
In this exhibition, I hope to express the humanity of the African-American male through an unapologetic display of their inner strength while highlighting their vulnerability.
Learn More“Contact High” spotlights the photographers who have played critical roles in bringing hip-hop and music culture imagery onto the global stage.
Learn More“Dual Shadows” is a three-part project about the LGBT refugees of East Africa. It follows them from their homes, where they faced unimaginable abuse; to Kenya, where they fled to but faced more hardship; to the US, where many are eventually resettled through a process that takes years.
Learn MoreThis exhibition and documentary traces the lives of five West African women, emphasizing the exceptional contribution of women to development.
Learn More“Facing Change: Documenting Detroit” is a community photojournalism initiative creating a documentary record of Detroit by Detroit-area photographers.
Learn MoreSince September 2016, the TIME team has spent months documenting the overcrowded refugee camps in Thessaloniki, Greece, and is following the first year in the lives of several refugee babies and their mothers as they seek a new—and more permanent—home in Europe.
Learn MoreWho has the right to tell a story? Are there limitations on objectivity as an insider, or sensitivity as an outsider? Presented as two parallel exhibitions, “Insider/Outsider” seeks to start a conversation about how photographers tell stories, how they define their own relationships to the people and issues they cover, and how their lives impact the stories they tell.
Learn MoreDespite traveling widely, it is in his own backyard that photographer Darrin Zammit Lupi has done what he believes is his most important work, documenting the plight and tragedy of the boat people trying to reach European shores from Africa.
Learn MoreThis is the story of a young veteran who was disabled by an IED explosion in Afghanistan, but it is also the story of two middle school sweethearts reuniting, falling in love and creating a new life.
Learn MoreThese 12 to 18-year-old Bronx students have created windows into the lives of a Vietnamese nun, a Dominican artist, and an exiled Russian journalist, among others. This work reveals the challenges and triumphs of life in today’s New York City immigrant community.
Learn MoreThe protest against plans to pass the Dakota Access pipeline underneath the Missouri River, just north of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota, was considered by many involved to be the time of that prophesy. Indigenous people from around the globe, but especially North America, “heard the call” and traveled to North Dakota to set up a resistance camp against the pipeline.
Learn MoreAmerican Illustration-American Photography (AI-AP) present its fifth annual collection to honor the best work being created today in or about Latin America by an international roster of established, emerging and student illustrators and photographers in a global, multi-cultural exchange of art and ideas.
Learn MoreFor millennia, the reindeer herding Nenets have been an inextricable part of the landscape of the Yamal (“The End of the Earth” in their language) in the Russian Arctic. According to many scientists, they have been incredibly resilient.
Learn MoreNew York City is constantly changing. Cycles of growth, decay, and renewal have altered the bricks and mortar of its physical environment and the humans who live here. “Living in the City” vividly illustrates how the housing landscape in New York City changed during the four decades from 1961 to 2001.
Learn More“Lost Rolls America” is a new and unique kind of Americana archive. In the age of image saturation, this archive slows the pace of our instantaneous digital world and commemorates the role that analog photos have played in all of our lives.
Learn MoreIn 2015, the nations of the world agreed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and move humankind toward prosperity, social inclusion, and environmental sustainability. Can United Nations goals actually make a difference? The evidence is powerful and encouraging.
Learn MoreThis is a time when history is being made in ways that our forefathers could never have imagined. It celebrates and reverberates this history eight times a week in cities across America. This is MY SHOT.
Learn MoreThe International Photo Festival Leiden showcases 20 new photography talents from the European Union with less than five years’ professional experience. These talents are selected by an expert jury, which also awards one winner a cash prize to help further their career. The winner will be announced on October 14, 2017.
Learn MoreThis exhibition includes the artwork of 23 photographers, all students and alumni of the New York Film Academy School of Photography. Representing different countries and cultural identities around the world, they have converged in diversity here at NYFA with a shared passion for the universal language of photography.
Learn MoreRecognizing Newark as a bellwether for the demographic future of the entire country, this project generates fresh narratives about our emerging majority-minority population and the nation it is transforming.
Learn MoreOrdinary is a quarterly fine art photography magazine featuring more than 20 artists from around the world who are sent one ordinary object, which comes as an extra, and are challenged to make it ‘extra-ordinary.’
Learn More“Paradise Lost” started in 2012 as a document of Venezuela’s collapse and the rise of violence. Venezuela is now one of the deadliest countries in the world. It is estimated that over 28,000 people were killed in Venezuela last year—that is, in a country roughly the size of Texas.
Learn MoreEach year the editors of PDN choose 30 new and emerging photographers to watch. In interviewing them for the profiles published in PDN, we gain new insights into the rapidly changing photo industry, and what it takes to launch a photography career today.
Learn More“Photo Requests from Solitary” invites men and women held in long-term solitary confinement to request a photograph of anything at all, real or imagined, and finds artists to make the images. The resulting photographs provide an archive of the hopes, memories, and interests of people who endure extreme isolation and sensory deprivation.
Learn MoreThe recent presidential election has thrust American Muslims into the limelight. They are scrutinized as if under a microscope, yet portrayed in a simplistic and stereotypical manner.
Learn MoreThis story, which appeared in National Geographic’s “Gender Revolution” issue, was an opportunity to meet people from the United States, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic and Samoa, who had the courage to make themselves visible. Please consider their lives. Perhaps someday, courage will not be necessary to simply be one’s self.
Learn MoreOn January 21, 2017, The Women’s March on Washington became the biggest global movement in American history: 1.2 million people flooded the streets of Washington D.C. and more than 5 million people marched in over 300 sister marches in cities across the globe.
Learn More“Room” is a series of portraits, self-portraits and letters, exploring the passage from girlhood to womanhood.
Learn MoreStudents graduating from the Photography and the Digital Image Bachelor of Fine Arts program at the Fashion Institute of Technology exhibited their senior thesis projects in a group-curated show on the school’s campus in May 2017, as part of the annual School of Art and Design Graduating Student Exhibition.
Learn MoreNYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Department of Photography and Imaging is featuring selected photo-based works from our most recently graduated alumni, the class of 2017.
Learn MoreAll 12 photographers represented here work in South Korea. Most of them have had work exhibited in domestic and foreign group shows, as well as solo exhibitions.
In January 2015, Alice Wielinga started her project, “Shadows of Pakistan.” She had the chance to visit Islamabad and to travel to the outskirts of the city, which inhabits unregistered Afghan and internal refugees.
Learn More“The Smallest Library in Africa” tells the story of Peter Otieno, a Kenyan visionary who saw the need to fill the education gap and address one of the main problems in the Mugure slums of Baba Dogo-Nairobi, Kenya: access to books.
Learn MoreDrawing from real accounts, Luceo has created a series of images and cinemagraphs telling the stories of immigrant crossings into the United States in a manner that pays homage to the religious iconography of the Stations of the Cross.
Learn MoreBetween 2011 and 2016, more than 33,300 Africans lost their lives to violent extremism. The growth of violent extremism has set in motion a dramatic reversal of development gains in Africa, and is also threatening to stunt prospects of development for years to come.
Learn More“Summer Come Back” is an exhibition comprised of work by select Wonderful Machine member photographers from around the globe. Covering a range of commercial specialties, the work on display aims to savor the last moments of summer — hanging on to the heat and humidity, and celebrating the little things in life.
Chosen from the class of 2017, these alumni from the BFA Photography and Video Department exemplify the diversity of practice that the program cultivates and the medium encourages. Despite this pluralism, the work is unified by a spirit of invention and a restless form of inquiry, as well as being deeply informed about the contemporary photographic conversation.
This year, the School of Visual Arts’ Masters in Digital Photography celebrates its tenth year of educating and inspiring photographers from all around the world. To mark this important milestone, the work of one graduate from each year is featured, which will highlight the diversity, quality and inquisitiveness of today’s contemporary fashion, fine art, editorial and portrait photographers.
Learn More“The Blood and the Rain” is a multimedia collaboration by photographer Yael Martínez and graphic artist Orlando Velázquez, who have been welcomed by the Nahua communities to observe their practices.
Learn More“The Family Imprint” is an intimate story of my family, as my parents underwent parallel treatments for stage-four cancer.
Learn MoreIn this project, gold is a metaphor for wealth and lust. However it also allows us to discuss the extinctions of species, tribes and ecosystems that disappear because of our madness for wealth and our desire to rule over everything. The new gold is asymbol of the disappearance of what I consider our true riches.
Learn MoreThe 1,700 Syrian refugees relocated to Scotland may be just a fraction of the 300,000 asylum cases that Germany has received, or the 100,000 that Sweden has taken in since the war in Syria broke out six years ago. But in order to play its part, the Scots are attempting a new model for integration.
Learn More“The Patriot Story” is a portrait series that tells the rarely told stories of the living Ethiopian Patriots, who proudly fought against the Italian army during the five-year occupation (1935-1941) in Ethiopia under the Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini.
Learn MoreThe Print Swap, a project launched by photography website Feature Shoot, is an opportunity for photographers to collect photography and engage with other photographers around the globe.
Learn MoreThe UNEARTH project began in 2015 as a collaboration between six documentary photographers and the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) in order to provide a visual record of Myanmar’s resource sector.
Learn MoreFrom the rise of Hugo Chávez’s socialist revolution to its collapse into the worst economic crisis in the history of Venezuela, photojournalist Meridith Kohut has chronicled the plight of Venezuelans for the past decade.
Learn More“War is Only Half the Story” is a ten-year retrospective of the work of grant winners and finalists of the groundbreaking nonprofit, The Aftermath Project.
Learn MoreThis photo exhibition explores the lives of African-Americans through the lens of sport, athleticism and culture. The stories told give an insight into the lives of people from New York City to Cleveland and Mississippi, with a focus on how sports play a role in their lives on and off the court.
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) presents a series of portraits of people forced from home, in search of safety. Many of these displaced people bear physical and psychological wounds from the dangerous journey, and are exposed to additional threats as countries close their borders and deny them protection.
Learn MoreNYC Ferry launched on May 1st, 2017, with the goal of bringing much needed transportation options to neighborhoods traditionally underserved by public transit. We want to showcase these neighborhoods from the unique perspectives of the youth who live and spend time there. Each of our 2017 routes—Rockaway, East River, South Brooklyn and Astoria—are represented here by youth photographers who welcome you to their neighborhood.
For “What We Share,” the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) teamed up with photographers to explore the theme of solidarity in times of displacement.
Learn MoreIn many regions of the world, widowhood marks a ‘social death’ for a woman, casting her and her children out to the margins of society.
Learn MoreIn many regions of the world widowhood marks a “social death” for a woman – casting her and her children out to the margins of society. Photojournalist Amy Toensing and National Geographic’s Deputy Director of Photography, Whitney Johnson, discuss the project, A Life After Loss, that looks at the status of widows In Uganda, Bosnia, and India.
Learn MoreIn this conversation, Deborah Willis speaks with Brendan Wattenberg, managing editor of Aperture Magazine, about the iconic images central to Willis’s career, tracing themes of representation and beauty in historic archives, photojournalism, fashion, and fine art photography from the nineteenth century to the present.
Learn MoreExplore the lives of individuals and communities that are often unseen, through the perspective of renowned photographers Sheila Pree Bright and Danny Wilcox Frazier.
Learn MoreDive into action with Pep Williams as he takes you on a skateboard and action shoot where you’ll learn how to capture speed and composition in your photography.
Learn MoreJoin New York Times photographers and editors as they share highlights from our photographic coverage of some of the year’s most visually powerful stories.
Learn MoreStudents from the Bronx Junior Photo League (BJPL) — the Bronx Documentary Center’s after-school documentary photography program — will share the work they created for “Journeys: Immigration Stories,” on view at Photoville.
Learn MoreJoin Ben Franke in a thrilling discussion on how to capture in-action photography. Ben will teach you the technicalities of how to photograph movement and balance while keeping your subject in focus.
Learn MoreFrom Afghanistan to Colombia and Somalia, environmental changes have dire implications for security and are harbingers of global risks to come. What’s being done to address these concerns? What more can be done? How can visual storytelling help?
Learn MoreJoin Doug Menuez and Mark Mann as they dive into an in-depth discussion on how to overcome challenges and fears that arise in projects.
Learn MoreContact High will host a conversation with legendary photographers Janette Beckman, Barron Claiborne, Brian Cross and Ernie Paniccioli exploring the creative process and behind-the-scenes look at the making of the imagery that shaped hip-hop.
Learn MorePanelists Aidan Sullivan, CEO of Verbatim; Lauren Steel, Visual Director of Verbatim; and filmmaker and photographer Gillian Laub will discuss how they worked together to produce powerful, award- winning content with integrity, plus how the creative process evolved from start to finish.
Learn MorePhoto editors and creative directors are constantly looking for photographers with a signature style and brand. But how do you develop them?
Learn MoreWe explore the lives, trials and triumphs of some of the world’s greatest athletes, from the cover of our magazine to our digital platforms.
Learn MoreJoin us for an exciting nighttime photo in an opportunity to learn how to shoot long exposure photography with Antonio DiBenedetto.
Learn MoreStudents from the 2017 NYU Future Imagemakers workshop will discuss how they use photography to tell their stories and address social justice issues in a panel moderated by Lorie Novak, Professor of Photography & Imaging and Founder & Director of Future Imagemakers.
Learn MoreLed by Getty Images Staff photographer Elsa Garrison and ESPN Senior Photo Editor Julianne Varacchi, students will have an opportunity to not only shoot live and on location, but to gain feedback and advice from successful photographers and editors working in the wide world of sports.
Learn MoreIn this panel, we’ll be joined by photographers who think outside the box when it comes to making extra cash from their photography — ideas like limited edition prints, online shops, image resale, magazines, and more.
Learn MoreExperience the beauty of golden hour under the Brooklyn Bridge while learning how to photograph in low light settings on an exciting photowalk with Mat Rick in partnership with ONA Bags.
Learn MoreYou’re invited to join us in an exciting Scavenger Hunt! Leica Camera USA will provide a list of 10 items for participants to photograph at Photoville with a loaner Huawei Mate9.
Learn MoreYou’re invited to join us in an exciting Scavenger Hunt! Leica Camera USA will provide a list of 10 items for participants to photograph at Photoville with a loaner Huawei Mate9.
Learn MoreICP’s Community Partnerships and Teen Academy together serve over 900 young people throughout the city each year by developing their knowledge of photography, critical thinking, writing and public speaking. Current students and alumni from these programs will share their images and writing, and reflect on the roles that photography plays in fostering self-confidence, community building and social change.
Learn MoreStudents from the Red Hook Community Justice Center and the Brownsville Community Justice Center’s Summer Photography Program share what they’ve learned about controlling their own visual narratives and going beyond the simple selfie.
Learn MoreStudents at Red Hook Labs School will present their work created during this year’s Youth Career and Youth Summer Program sessions.
Learn MoreJoin us for a fast-paced presentation by a unique group of cross-disciplined artists as they reveal their sources of creativity.
Learn MoreTo celebrate New York Fashion week, Photoville is partnering with New York Magazine and their Director of Photography Jody Quon in a discussion about the magazine’s history and approach to fashion. The talk will feature Holly Andres’ “The 43-Day Fashion Shoot,” a photo portfolio commissioned by the magazine, which sent Andres around the nation to meet American women and their Americas, dressing them in some of the season’s clothing.
Learn More“Newest Americans” reaches across media formats: documentary film, photography, fiction and nonfiction essays, podcasting and interactive storytelling.
Learn MorePhotographers chosen for PDN’s 30: New and Emerging Photographers will share useful lessons they learned as they launched their careers, explain how they got their work seen and noticed, and offer advice on finding your style and building support for personal projects.
Learn MoreEach tintype session will take 15-20 minutes to shoot and develop the image, and approximately one additional hour before the plate is ready to take home. Those interested can come to our booth and sign up for a time slot.
Learn MoreThroughout July 2017, students from UNIS and KIPP College Prep in the Bronx took part in the UNIS Human Rights Project, a photojournalism program for high school students sponsored by UNIS and the EE Ford Foundation.
Learn MoreBuild a photo-worthy place setting from the ground up with the guidance of prop stylist Robin Zachary and photographer Richard Gary, against the added bonus of a West Elm backdrop!
Learn MorePOV is proud to partner with Photoville to present the screening of compelling clips from the acclaimed films, CAMERAPERSON and TWO TOWNS OF JASPER.
Learn MorePete Souza is the former Chief Official White House Photographer for President Ronald Reagan and President Barack Obama, and the former director of the White House Photography Office. Michael Shaw is the publisher of the nonprofit organization, Reading the Pictures.
Learn MoreA panel discussion from the founding members of RECLAIM: an alliance of The Everyday Projects, Native Agency, Majority World, Women Photograph, Minority Report [renamed from Visioning Project], and Diversify Photo. We are six organizations committed to amplifying the voices of underrepresented photographers and decolonizing the photojournalism industry.
Learn MoreBack by popular demand, award-winning photojournalist Spencer Platt will guide students through the art and practice of street photography in this hands-on workshop.
Learn MoreLearn the fundamentals of photography with Rob McCarthy as he takes you on a tour of Brooklyn.
Learn MoreIn this no-nonsense approach to classic portraiture, photographer Josh Lehrer will cover the main principles of portrait photography, including the four basic angles of lighting.
Learn MoreLearn how to shoot intimate portraits of strangers with Donato DiCamillo. He’ll guide you on how to get close to your subject without anxiety and fear.
Learn MoreExplore the streets of DUMBO with Tutes and his Leica M in partnership with ONA bags. During this photowalk, Tutes will share tips and techniques on how to capture street photography while adding your own creative touches.
Learn MoreJoin an in-depth discussion about the truth in our photographs with Irakly Shanidze.
Learn MoreSacha Lecca, Deputy Photo Editor at Rolling Stone magazine, will talk with Jennifer Santana, Photo Director at Men’s Journal, photographers Joe McNally, Amy Lombard and Mathieu Young to hear how they’ve conquered business obstacles, plus their best advice for those just starting out.
Learn MoreX-Posure student photographers present their first photo project, “The Essence of Here,” in which participants explore their diverse and intersecting identities as an act of self-representation and advocacy. Through the use of imagery and spoken word, they will delve into the poetic visual stories that speak on their experiences as LGBTQ+ youth. In the spirit of “nothing about us, without us,” youth will speak on the importance of having the agency to tell their own stories.
Learn MoreWhat makes a compelling photograph? Why are some concepts difficult to express visually? How can photographers introduce complex ideas into their work in coherent and captivating ways?
Learn MoreIn this special workshop, photographer, documentarian, and co-founder of VII photo agency Ron Haviv offers insights and practical tools to develop a distinct voice and visual style.
Learn MoreDraw your swords! A hysterical water balloon gladiator show with comic antics, flying water balloons, and loud opera music. Using no words, the ultimate for the ultimate visual storytellers, Seth and Christina deliver a gut-busting, interactive show that has thrilled crowds in 22 countries. An audience and press favorite around the globe. Great for all ages.
Learn MoreThe photo industry has been dominated by men for years, but never before have women’s voices been stronger. In this panel, we’ll be joined by creatives who are pushing to help female photographers share their work and their stories.
Learn MoreThis inaugural one-day workshop for female and non-binary photographers by the new Women Photograph initiative will involve skills-building talks on a wide array of issues ranging from the importance of registering your copyright to hands-on technical demonstrations on lighting. Experts will also be on hand for one-on-one sessions on book editing, grant proposal writing, portfolio reviews, and more.
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