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2018: Exhibitions

“Lawn Oyounak” : The Color of His Eyes

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

Mo dreams of building the world’s fastest car, putting the top down and feeling the wind press back the features of his face as he enters warp speed. He dreams of freedom. When he grows up, he also wants to become a doctor, because doctors make lots of money and save lives.

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#Gratitude #Thanks #Spasibo

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

For the last eight years, through our collaborative project, Geolocation, we have used publicly available GPS information embedded in Twitter updates to track the locations of user posts and follow them to make photographs that mark the location in the real world. In the photographs, the text of a rapid-fire tweet is married with the image of the solitary location.

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#selfie

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

“#selfie” examines how image sharing and the Internet have changed the role of photography in the digital age. The process of creating and disseminating imagery has fundamentally changed in the new context provided by digital photography, smartphones and more recently the ‘selfie’.

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50 New York Artists

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

In celebration of New York Magazine’s 50th anniversary, 50 artists were invited to create 50 magazine covers that express what New York City looks like to them right now.

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64,000

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

64,000 people died of drug overdoses in 2016. That number eclipses the highest previous year by more than 20%, accounting for more than 175 deaths each day. To understand the magnitude of this number, it exceeds deaths attributed to firearms and car accidents —combined.

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A Way Home

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

“A Way Home” brings to light the ways in which communities across the globe define ‘home’. Through a compassionate and telling lens, these photojournalists examine the effects that migration, conflict, political strife and humanitarian crises inflict on individuals’ concepts of home.

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ALTAR: Prayer, Ritual, Offerings

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

This exhibition takes the altar out of its religious context and interrogates photography as a practice containing the same attributes as altars. The images presented in this exhibition examines several religious traditions that have originated in and/or practiced on the African continent and throughout the world.

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As-Salaam Alaikum, America

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

In the words of Lynsey Addario, “this body of work intends to capture a more intimate, nuanced view of Muslims in America, while focusing on their vast racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity.”

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ASMP: American Society of Media Photographers – 2018 – Theme : Hope

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

This exhibition was curated from submissions by our ASMP member base in New York. Our theme this year is “Hope” and includes the vast variety of creative interpretations which celebrates the talent of our members.

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Attacks On The Press | MEXICO

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

In recent years Mexico has become one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists, with levels of violence unmatched by any country in the Western Hemisphere. Attacks and threats against journalists and photojournalists are a daily occurrence and assassinations are routine.

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AYACUCHO

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

The word Ayacucho comes from Quechua AYA (dead, corpse) and CUCHO (corner), meaning “the corner of the dead”. The last two decades of the 20th century were one of the most tragic moments for the city of Ayacucho and the history of Peru.

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Azraq Film School Presents “Through Our Eyes: The Personal Works of Syrian Youth in Azraq, Jordan”

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

More than 30 young filmmakers and storytelling enthusiasts created their own independent stories that documented their lives, experiences, and hopes during the largest refugee crisis and displacement since WWII.

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Battles Won

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

Marine photojournalists tell the Marine Corps story to the American public, reporting from a frozen reservoir in Korea, in sweltering jungles in Vietnam, Desert Storm, Iraq, Afghanistan and anywhere that battles must be won.

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cit.i.zen.ship: reflections on rights by teen photographers

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

The Department of Photography & Imaging at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, in collaboration with United Photo Industries and For Freedoms’ 50 State Initiative, presents “cit.i.zen.ship: reflections on rights by teen photographers” with photographs, collages, and videos by high school students from across the U.S. that speak directly to the current moment that students, educators, and artists alike are experiencing and responding to.

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conSECUENCIAS / conSEQUENCES

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

This exhibit highlights the role of photography in creating public narratives of life struggles and social movements in Chiapas, Mexico. It builds on the media awareness generated by the Zapatista indigenous rebellion of 1994. Since then, social and political conflicts have led to displacement and confrontation, often generating multiple narratives of these events.

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Documenting China, Stories of Change

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

From the surprising fate of China’s shrinking cities, to the quiet resilience of young migrant women, this exhibition features long-term projects by Chinese visual storytellers, who examine a country that is constantly adapting and redefining itself.

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Don Hogan Charles

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

Don Hogan Charles was the first black photographer to be hired by The New York Times, in 1964. In his more than four devades at The Times, Don photographed politicians, celebrities, fashion, food and everyday life in New York City. But he may be best remembered for the work that earne him early acclaim: his photographs of key moments and figures of the civil rights era.

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Ebifananyi, The Photographers Trilogy

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

In presentations of historical photographs from Africa, Uganda was—until recently—only mentioned in relation to photographs produced by non-Ugandans or members of the Ugandan diaspora. The first three books in the Ebifananyi series change this status quo by presenting photographs produced by Deo Kyakulagira (1940-2000), Musa Katuramu (1916-1983) and Elly Rwakoma (ca.1938).

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Eyes on New York

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

The goal of this exhibition is to highlight the work and personal visions of the emerging street photographers in The New York City Street Photography Collective, while simultaneously providing viewers with a glimpse of candid, unaltered scenes of life in New York City as it happens every day.

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FAYN Magazine

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

FAYN is a collaborative photography magazine produced by the New York Film Academy Photography Department. The magazine features students, faculty, and alumni whose work explores contemporary concepts in art and culture.

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Federal Project 2

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

Over the course of 2018, and into 2019, Topic Studios has commissioned 50 artists from across the United States to explore and showcase the diversity of contemporary life in America. Federal Project No. 2 will consist of artistic pairings, where we ask world-class photographers, visual artists, musicians, etcetera, to pick a work from the vast WPA archives that speaks to them, and then make new work in response to it.

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Focal Points: 2017 Catchlight Fellows

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

CatchLight’s inaugural “Focal Points” exhibition features work from the 2017 CatchLight fellows, Tomas Van Houtryve, Sarah Blesener, and Brian L. Frank who were each paired with a media partner — the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, The Center for Investigative Reporting, and the Marshall Project, respectively.

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Foreseen: New narratives from the African Photojournalism Database

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

This exhibition showcases the work of African visual storytellers selected from the African Photojournalism Database (APJD). At the core of the APJD is the mission to celebrate refreshing and diverse stories told by photographers often overlooked by the global media industry—stories that are not widely seen in the current, exclusive media landscape.

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Glasshouse of Immigrants

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

I initiated “The New Americans” project to explore the new immigrant experience — people that decided to come to the USA from the 1960s onward. They portray the bravery it takes to pick up and leave one’s homeland no matter what period of time.

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Grandma Techno Checks In

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

Some projects we choose, and others choose us. “Grandma Techno Checks In” tells the story of three weeks in early 2018 when I was hospitalized for flu-related problems exacerbated by the chronic progressive MS I have lived with since 1988.

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Her Take: (Re)Thinking Masculinity

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

“Her Take: (Re)Thinking Masculinity” is a continuation of the conversation begun by the seven women photographers of VII when they first met nearly a year ago, as the agency voted in six new female members. The exhibition is a reflection of their commitment, with the agency’s support, to help forward inclusive conversations about gender, power, and representation.

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Hot Mamma

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

“Hot Mamma” aims to create an experience where women from different age groups and backgrounds can “feel themselves” while they are being photographed.

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Humble Cats: Photoville Edition

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

Curated by Humble Arts Foundation co-founder, Jon Feinstein, this exhibition features a selection of photos from an open entry call, and from the 2017 book, “Humble Cats: New Cats in Art Photography”.

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I VOTE BECAUSE..

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

I VOTE BECAUSE…, legendary photographer Janette Beckman large-scale photographs of citizens paired with their short  statements about why voting is important. We will be taking photos of people at photoville and asking them why they vote!

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In Relation

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

An exploration of relationships mediated by photography with work by current students in Parsons MFA Photography Program.

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In These Clasped Hands

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

“In These Clasped Hands” started as a series of portraits of my family members in South Carolina. However, after the Mother Emanuel AME Church massacre, the effects of loss could be felt throughout the state.

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IN/VISIBLE

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

“IN/VISIBLE” is an attempt to increase visual literacy by highlighting photographs made by individuals from groups underrepresented in mass media.

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Internal Ballistics

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

This exhibition expands our understanding of the visceral and physical collision between what we know and understand about guns and gun culture, and what many know as a result of being on the end of the projectile.

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Invisible: Migrant Workers in Singapore

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

In this project, which was supported by a grant from the Pulitzer Center, photojournalist Xyza Cruz Bacani documents the lives of migrant workers in Singapore who left their home countries to seek a better economic future for their families but ended up being exploited.

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Just the Tip

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

“JUST THE TIP” is a photograph series that focuses on the ultimate seduction of the machine. It’s about the immense power of nuclear weapons, their ingenious construct and haunting beauty.

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Ke Lefa Laka

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

Eight years ago, I lost my mother and I needed to explore the possibility of keeping a connection with her. In my journey, I began looking for pieces of my mother in the house, I found many photos and clothes, which had always been there, but which I had ignored over the years. There she was, smiling and posing in these clothes.

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KINGS & QUEENS

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

For most people, drag queens are an exotic phenomenon restricted to the worlds of spectacle, fantasy and entertainment. “KINGS & QUEENS” explores how drags challenge traditional gender definitions by showing that there’s much more to life than simply being a man or a woman.

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Las Vegas, New Mexico

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

Las Vegas, New Mexico is a place that is rooted in a complex linguistic and cultural history where the boundaries of identity are fluid and intricate, but it is also as American as any small town in the country.

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Latin American Fotografía and Ilustración 6

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

AI-AP presents the winners of the sixth edition of the Latin American Fotografía and Ilustración Call for Entries, LOS DIEZ.

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Letters from my Exile

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

“Letters from My Exile” is a participatory art project that pairs portraits and letters that tell the story of people who have endured tremendous sacrifice in their quest for a better life.

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Life After Life in Prison: The Bedroom Project

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

For the past four years, I have been photographing formerly incarcerated women in their bedrooms.

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Like a Dream

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

The Print Swap has become one of the most innovative and original competitive platforms for emerging photographers to share and collect affordable art since its launch in 2016.

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Live like Lola

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

Lola Muñoz, 13, has lived the last 18 months as if they were her last, because they are. She is an extraordinary girl.

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love, loss, and longing

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

A large number of arrests have taken place in Egypt since the revolution of January 25, 2011, many of them unfounded. With many lovers left behind, inspiring stories of love, loss, and longing are being told by heartbroken women.

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MAKE ART MAKE MONEY

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Moon Dust

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

Wadi El Qamar, also known as Moon Valley, is a residential area located in the west of Alexandria, Egypt, next to the Portland Cement Factory. Just ten meters away from the residential area, the factory processes coal and garbage. It layers the homes of more than 30,000 people with toxic dust, causing tremendous health problems to those that live there.

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N.O.K: Next Of Kin

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

“N.O.K.: Next of Kin” documents how Gold Star Families cope with loss and memory through their handling of their loved ones killed in action in wars spanning from World War II to The Vietnam War and the ongoing conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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New York Through the Lens of New York Magazine

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

In celebration of the 50th anniversary of New York Magazine, photography director Jody Quon made a selection of the 50 photographs with the most interesting back stories, featuring interviews with Milton Glaser, Walter Bernard, Carl Fischer, Harry Benson, Barbara Kruger, Brigitte Lacombe, Amanda Demme, Dan Winters, and others.

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North Shore

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

It is a part of New York City that is seldom seen, but the North Shore of Staten Island is a microcosm of contemporary life in the United States. In this age of isolationism, it is also a borderland – a place where the culture wars of our decade play out in the everyday lives of residents.

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Nowhere Left But Here

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

Japan, home to the world’s oldest population, has been dealing with a challenge it didn’t foresee: senior crime.

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NYC Work and Working: Photographs from the WPA Federal Writers’ Project

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

The Municipal Archives presents an exhibition drawn from a collection of more than 5,000 photographs taken or collected by the New York City Unit of the Federal Writers’ and Art Projects of the Works Progress Administration (WPA).

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One day, I will

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

Aged between 6-18 years old, the children and youths are photographed dressing up in the outfits of the adults they want to become. The photos highlight the vulnerability and also the great energy of today’s youth and how they can shape the future.

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PDN’s 30 2018: Our Choice of New and Emerging Photographers to Watch

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

Every year since 1999, the editors of PDN have selected 30 emerging photographers who represent a variety of styles and genres and have demonstrated a distinctive vision, creativity, and versatility. This year, the editors reviewed the work of close to 300 photographers from around the world.

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People of the Ferry

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

The NYC Ferry and the relationship with water — going back to Old New York before the bridges and subways were built — changed the way people think and feel about commuting. For a street photographer, it’s like new streets have opened up in New York City with the possibility of new angles and perspectives on well-known backgrounds, bridges and landscapes.

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Pilsen

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

In the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, the Chicago neighborhood of Pilsen saw its cultural peak as a mecca for Mexican-American immigrants in the Midwest. The 2.76-square-mile community has seen rapid development, study shows.

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Priya Ramrakha – the recovered archive

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

Ramrakha’s iconic images defied stereotype, censorship and editorial demand, capturing key moments from segregated colonial oppression in his home in Kenya, and tying those to moments of black struggle and surprising solidarities in the US in the 1960s.

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Reframing Mental Health: The Be Vocal Experience

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

Captured through photography and film, the men and women in “The Be Vocal Experience” exhibit have come together to combat inaccurate imagery and misperceptions around mental health.

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REFUGEE

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

REFUGEE was originally conceived and exhibited at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Los Angeles. The exhibit explores the lives of refugees from a host of diverse populations dispersed and displaced throughout the world. REFUGEE offers visitors insight into the plight of refugees, including their efforts to survive, their needs, their dreams, and their hopes for a better future.

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Safe Home

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

Following wars and the occupation of many areas of the country by ISIL, Iraq is littered with explosive devices, including thousands of IEDs. Major population centers and small villages are unsafe for the people returning home.

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Scenes Unseen: The Summer of ’78

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

Idled by a newspaper strike in the summer of 1978, eight New York Times staff photographers were enlisted by the New York City parks commissioner to document a summer in the city’s parks.

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Selected work from Untitled Folder

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

Students 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, 2018, as part of the annual School of Art and Design Graduating Student Exhibition. “Untitled Folder” was a collective showcase of individual long-term projects that directly reflect the photographic techniques and styles developed during the students’ years at FIT.

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Sensation Photography: Between or Border

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

Koreans who live in other countries range from first-generation immigrants who left their homeland a long time ago to third- or fourth-generation Koreans who may have seen Korea only on a map.

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Stitching Together: Garment Workers in Solidarity

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

On April 24, 2013, more than 1,000 lives were taken in the Rana Plaza Collapse. While history remembers this tragic event as the deadliest garment factory accident, activist and photographer Taslima Akhter reveals a story of dreams crushed by structural murder.

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Subject, Object, Creator

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

“Subject, Object, Creator” explores how the photographer’s gaze, shaped through gender, experience and character, molds broader visual representations surrounding identity.

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Telling a story and selling an idea: Teaching Creativity

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

The students’ work exhibited here centers around telling a story (HSFI) and selling an idea (Art & Design). Students who were juniors and seniors during the 2017-2018 school year will be present to show their work and discuss their relationships with their teachers and fellow students.

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The 2018 Blue Earth Project Creatives

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

Blue Earth Alliance believes visual storytelling inspires positive change. We provide fiscal sponsorship and other assistance to documentary photographers and filmmakers whose projects highlight critical environmental and social issues around the world.

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The Color Of…

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

The Color Of…is an aesthetic, technical and historical exploration of how color; capture, enhancement, interpretation and reproduction is influenced by culture, society and technological developments.

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The Evolution of Visual Culture

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

“The Evolution of Visual Culture” reveals how popular visual topics and styles are not created in a vacuum but instead are related to specific cultural and societal developments while also tracing their roots to previous photographic styles.

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The Geography of Hate

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

In 2000, Lynn Johnson began documenting the places where extreme acts of violence took place in the United States for her Master’s degree thesis at the School of Visual Communication at Ohio University.

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THE LIT LIST: 30 Under-the-Radar Photographers

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

This exhibition was curated from the winners of the inaugural LIT LIST, a list created by the Authority Collective, in partnership with Diversify.Photo, to highlight 30 talented photographers of color and other underrepresented identities.

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The McFarthest Place

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

“The McFarthest Place” documents the social, economic, and political mindset of the disappearing rural Midwest through one county in South Dakota.

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The Meaning of Now: Living Life with Cancer

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

This is a story about two people who have chosen to see their cancer diagnosis as a gift. Despite the physical and mental battle of coping with treatment and the side effects of chemo, Shirley and Tato have decided to use this time to ‘live’ with cancer instead of ‘dying’ from it.

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The NPPA’s 2018 Best of Photojournalism

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

NPPA’s Best of Photojournalism competition annually attracts the most talented professionals in four divisions – still, video, multimedia and editing – collectively representing nearly 100 categories.

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The Oldest Colony

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

“The Oldest Colony” is a meditation on the Puerto Rican identity as a product of the island’s political relationship with the United States as an unincorporated territory, and now as it morphs with the economic crisis and hurricane Maria’s aftermath.

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The Others

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

Three Estonian photographers open doors that lead into three different communities of the Others in Estonia.

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The Players’ Tribune: Through the Lens

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

Photographers from The Players’ Tribune focus their lenses on athletes off the field, after the buzzer, and away from the crowds; showcasing portraits of athletes of all sports from around the world, showing who they really are.

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The Power of Pink

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

In this photography series, we are excited to share the work of the young women photographers from Las Fotos Project in Los Angeles, California, and of A VOICE (Art Vision & Outreach In Community Education) from the Two Eagle River School on the Flathead Reservation in Montana.

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The Soul(s) of…

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

2018 is the 150th anniversary of W.E.B. Du Bois’ birth year. The title of the series pays homage to Du Bois, who often wrote about how extraordinary Black Americans are in the face of oppression.

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The VII Foundation

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

The VII Foundation presents projects.

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The Wall

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

At the juncture of San Diego, California; and Tijuana, Mexico, the border wall’s rusting steel bars plunge into the sand, extending 300 feet into the Pacific Ocean, and casting a long and conflicting shadow.

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This Time We Are Young

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

This project follows three Ugandan teenagers as they navigate the challenges and joys of youth.

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Too Far to Walk

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

Saving Mothers presents a series of photographs from a community in Northern Kenya where women suffer disproportionately from poor access to health services, discrimination, and at times, victimization by harmful traditions.

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Undocumented

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

As a special correspondent for Getty Images, I have spent much of the last decade photographing issues of undocumented immigration to the United States from Central America and Mexico. I’ve taken a broad approach, focusing on asylum seekers fleeing violence, migrants searching for economic opportunity, and the federal government’s response to pursue, detain, and deport them. Throughout, I have tried to humanize this story.

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Union of Concerned Photographers

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

Union of Concerned Photographers was an initiative started by WeTransefer bringing together world-renowned photographers to highlight key issues in climate change.

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Voyage à Dakar

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza

In “Voyage à Dakar” Dutch photographer Judith Quax and her Dutch-Senegalese son, Noah, travel over land in the opposite direction of the migratory flow from Amsterdam to Dakar in Senegal: the land of Noah’s father and his Senegalese family.

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2018: Sessions and Events

“The Geography of Hate” Talk

Immerse yourself in a visual story like no other with Lynn Johnson. In 2000 Lynn began documenting the places where extreme acts of violence took place in the United States for Master’s degree thesis at the School of Visual Communication at Ohio University.

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#WitnessBrooklyn Photowalk

From Brooklyn’s back alleys to its shadowed side streets, witness the city with a new perspective in an exciting photowalk with 13th Witness.

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ALTAR: Prayer, Ritual, Offerings

A panel discussion moderated by MFON co-founders, Laylah Amatullah Barrayn and Adama Delphine Fawundu, will feature contributing photographers sharing perspectives on photography and spirituality.

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An Afternoon with Jamel Shabazz

Acclaimed photographer Jamel Shabazz will discuss his career, including how his art has evolved, how he has been able to balance his commercial and his personal work and the lessons he’s learned along the way.

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Attacks On Press Freedom in Mexico

A conversation about the attacks on press freedom in Mexico with Alexandra Ellerbeck, Committee to Protect Journalists’ (CPJ) North America program coordinator, Mexican photojournalist Emmanuel Guillen Lozano, and Ginger Thompson, senior reporter at ProPublica.

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Bronx Junior Photo League

The Bronx Junior Photo League (BJPL) is a free after-school photography and journalism program serving middle through high school students at the Bronx Documentary Center, a non-profit gallery and educational space in the South Bronx.

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Camera Talk with Kishore Sawh

Explore the disconnect between emotion and tech in photography and how ‘experience & romance’ will define the next generation of cameras.

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Capturing Light Photowalk

Surround yourself in shades of gold in the beautiful city of Brooklyn during a sunset photowalk with Mat Rick, in partnership with ONA.

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Chance Encounters and Public Places: A Street Photography Workshop

Join Meryl Meisler and Tequila Minsky for an afternoon of exploring and practicing street photography.

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Changing the Game: Creative Ways to Get Noticed and Make Money

From brand ambassadors to teaching and fellowships opportunities to starting related businesses, learn how these creatives are redefining the game, making connections and attracting the clients they want. Walk away with tons of inspiration on how to innovate and rethink ways to build your own photography business.

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Color and Composure Photowalk

Find your visual identity, and discover your creative process in a photowalk with Joe Greer, in partnership with ONA.

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Connecting with Culture: A Conversation with Miranda and Stella

Join the conversation between Leica photographers, Miranda Barnes and Stella Johnson, as they discuss their experiences documenting and connecting with communities they themselves don’t belong to.

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Daylight Books Fall 2018 Launch

Daylight is pleased to team up with Photoville to present a launch and book signing location for our Fall 2018 titles! Located in the Photoville Beer Garden and featuring six new books, the artists will be on hand to sign books and answer questions!

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DUMBO at Dusk: A Low-light Twilight Photography Workshop

In partnership with the International Center of Photography (ICP), and taught by award-winning and internationally exhibited photographer Lynn Saville, this four hour photography workshop introduces students to the fundamentals of taking photographs at twilight.

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Expose the Night: Long Exposure Photowalk

Unravel the magic of night photography in an enchanting photowalk along the stunningly lit Brooklyn Bridge Park. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own tripod for long exposure photography.

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From Portrait to Pier: Capturing the Essence of the Sea

Break away from traditional landscapes, and learn how to create rich seascapes while capturing movement of silky waves with EJ Camp.

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Future Imagemakers Speak Out

In this panel, high school photographers from photography programs throughout New York City will present and discuss their work.

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Game Changers: A Sports Photography Workshop

Improve your sports photography by learning the techniques used by top sports photographers to capture peak action and images with emotion.

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How Do We Focus Our Gaze? Connecting Photography & Social Impact

Hear from CatchLight’s founder and fellows about our unique focus on solving the giant mismatch between artists and their potential for social impact by surrounding longform storytelling with resources, networks and leadership to bring to life and amplify the reach of their stories.

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How to Impress Photo Editors, Land a Job and Negotiate Your Best Deal

Most photographers will tell you that finding new clients and locking down quality work is an ongoing challenge — and a big one at that. In this panel, we’ll address this head on and share tips, advice and lessons learned from photographers, photo editors and art producers on how to land a job.

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ICP Community Programs: Teen Storytellers Impacting Change

ICP’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.

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In Conversation: Taslima Akhter and Robin Berson

Taslima Akhter and Robin Berson will be speaking in conversation about their processes as artists and activists working in the labor movement, advocating for the rights of garment workers.

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Inspired Live at Photoville

Join us for a fast-paced presentation by a unique group of cross-disciplined Photoville artists as they reveal their sources of creativity.

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Leica Storytellers: A Longer View

Witness the beauty and demise of nature seen through the eyes of D. Randall Blythe, as he speaks about the devastating environmental shortsightedness that has been the hallmark of human expansion in the modern age. Blythe’s images of resistance against the currently daunting scenario give us a sliver of hope.

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Leica Storytellers: Merging Art & Commerce To Feed My Soul And My Family

Learn strategies on selling work without selling your soul with renowned photographer Doug Menuez. Jump into the mind of Doug Menuez as he shares his experience of connecting timeless storytelling and commercial advertising to create meaningful moments in photography.

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Leica Storytellers: Modern Day Photojournalism

Africa Bureau Chief for VICE News, Jackson Fager, shares his journey from his most recent trip to Democratic Republic of Congo, covering Catch Fetish, also known as Voodoo Wrestling. Witness lighthearted moments of a war-torn country through the lens of the Leica SL, and discover how the evolution of photojournalism impacts your visual stories.

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Leica Storytellers: Prophet over Profit

Unveil visual stories of a cathartic journey, told through an unfiltered lens by Ryan Muirhead, in partnership with ONA.

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Leica Storytellers: The Art of Analog

Fall in love with film photography in this digital era, and find out why Stephen Vanasco chooses to create with both film and digital by understanding each as their own medium.

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Leica Storytellers: The Chronicles of the Evolving Photographer

With over a decade of working multiple high-profile celebrity events, learn why Philip Cuenco made the jump from DSLR to rangefinder. Philip will speak about his successes, failures and his continuous adaptation to new imaging technologies, adapting to demands from the social media world while still balancing his own passions and continuously growing as an artist.

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Leica Storytellers: The Power of Print

Discover the importance of bringing your photography to life through prints with Stephen Vanasco.

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Light, Landscape and Leica Photowalk

Explore DUMBO through the lens of a Leica and create stunning stills using natural light with Pei Ketron.

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No Plan B: The Talk

Learn about life on the road as an assignment photographer and the nuances of working at a large media company in this fun and lighthearted talk with renowned photographer David Carol.

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Nonprofit Storytelling: How Photographers and Marketers Inspire Change

In this panel, we’ll be joined by photographers and nonprofit directors to discuss how creatives and marketers work together to bring important stories to life and inspire action — all while navigating tight resources and budgets.

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NYU Future Imagemakers

Students from the 2018 workshop will discuss their work in this panel moderated by Lorie Novak, Professor of Photography & Imaging and Founder & Director of Future Imagemakers and Makeda Flood, a senior in the Department of Photography & Imaging and one of Future Imagemakers teachers.

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On Assignment: Fashion Photography in the Real World

Develop skills and confidence on set through productive teamwork and dedicated feedback sessions, and discover what it takes to make it in fashion photography today.

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On the Streets with Andre D. Wagner

Get up close and personal with New York City street photographer, Andre Wagner. He will discuss his work, process, and hold a conversation about using the street as an open studio.

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PDN’s 30: Advice for Emerging Photographers from Emerging Photographers

Photographers chosen for PDN’s 30: New and Emerging Photographers to Watch will share the useful lessons they learned as they launched their careers. The panelists will discuss planning and funding personal projects, their strategies for promoting their work to potential clients and galleries, and how they built a support network.

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Penumbra TinType Sessions

The Penumbra Foundation will set up a tintype booth at the 2018 Photoville festival.

Considered by many to be the Polaroid of the 19th century, the tintype is made almost instantaneously through a process that uses hand poured chemicals on an enameled sheet of metal. Tintypes, often found today in near original condition, were passed down as family heirlooms and valued for their time-tested archival stability.

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People, Portraits and Places Photowalk

Master the art of environmental portraiture using Brooklyn as your backdrop in a golden hour photowalk with Jose “Tutes” Tutiven, in partnership with ONA.

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Photography and Trauma: Psychological Stress and The Occupational Hazards of Exposure to Traumatic Imagery

This panel aims to highlight how common psychological stress and trauma is among journalists and discuss related topics: Why are photographers and photo editors at particular risk? What are the barriers to treating trauma and how do we address them? What resources are available?

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PhotoShelter Presents #CameraEatsFirst

Don’t miss the chance to enter PhotoShelter’s food photography Instagram contest — stop by their pop-up booth, #CameraEatsFirst where they’ll have fun props and pro lighting to capture your food truck finds. Every person who enters (21+) will receive a beer voucher, and you might even win a PhotoShelter account or a custom designed t-shirt.

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Place Makers: A Tabletop Styling and Photography Workshop

Build a photo-worthy place setting from the ground up with the guidance of tabletop and prop stylist Robin Zachary, and photographer and food stylist Kate Lewis, against the added bonus of a West Elm backdrop.

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Postcards from Brownsville: Photographing Community

Students will present their collaborative project, “Postcards from Brownsville” and discuss how their photographs can impact insider and outside perceptions of their community.

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Pursuing Long Term Projects and Books

Join Harvey Stein in a fast-paced talk about pursuing long term projects and turning them into the most meaningful and long-lasting venue: a book. He will show and discuss images from his newly published book, “Mexico Between Life and Death,” and describe some of his techniques to help you get your book published.

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Stunts and Stills Photowalk

Capture movement with Ben Franke and the Leica SL in an action-filled parkour photowalk.

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The Art of the Pitch: Preparing and writing proposals, grants, and more

Join Emma Raynes, Director of Programs at the Magnum Foundation and United Photo Industries and Photoville’s Co-Founder Laura Roumanos, in a 45 minute crash course that covers everything from searching for job and exhibition opportunities, responding to request for proposals and learning the tricks of the trade to writing the perfect grant submission.

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The Emotional Journey of Photographing a Face Transplant

Join Maggie and Lynn’s experience documenting the emotional two and a half year journey of Katie Stubblefield, the youngest face transplant patient in the U.S.

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The Geometry of Death and Re-Birth

X-Posure intern photographers present their second photo project, “The Geometry of Death and Re-Birth”. Each photographer explores their diverse and intersecting identities as an act of self-representation and advocacy.

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The Importance and How To’s of Archiving Work and Legacy

Suzie Katz, president and founder of PhotoWings, and Mary Engel, president and founder of American Photography Archives Group, will discuss the importance of archiving, the best techniques and platforms, and how to start thinking about the legacy you’ll leave behind.

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The Power of Pink

In this photography series we are excited to share the work of the young women photographers from Club Balam in Chiapas, Mexico, Las Fotos Project in Los Angeles, California, A VOICE-(Art Vision & Outreach In Community Education) from the Two Eagle River School on the Flathead Reservation in Montana, and work from our own photography program.

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The Rents Eats First: Housing Injustice in NYC

For millions throughout the US, the experience of affordable, stable and adequate housing is precarious at best. Homelessness, eviction, displacement, harassment, overcrowding and disrepair are increasingly common experiences.

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What makes a Portrait a Portrait?

Dive deep into the art of portraiture with Mark Mann to find the balance between self-expression as the photographer and authenticity in the sitter during this hands-on portrait shoot at the Leica Pavilion, in partnership with Loculars.

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Women Photograph Workshop @ Photoville

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