1000 Years Of Joys And Sorrows

In his widely anticipated memoir, “1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows,” world-renowned artist and activist Ai Weiwei tells a century-long epic tale of China through the story of his own extraordinary life and the legacy of his father, while also illuminating his artistic process.

A Beautiful Ghetto

Devin Allen asks us to see beyond the violence and poverty that all too often defines the “ghetto.”

A Compassionate Lens: Chris Hondros Fund, Ten Years On

Reflecting on 10 years since Hondros’s death, we asked the fund’s founders and awardees to select one of his photographs and share their thoughts about his prolific work—which continues to bring shared human experiences to light.

A New Beginning

A new beginning is part of the transmedia project Shadow Game by Eefje Blankevoort and Els van Driel, produced in close collaboration with journalist and translator Zuhoor al Qaisi.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Ambassadors: Stories From Around The World Featuring Aundre Larrow & Luisa Dorr

Explore stunning and compelling visual stories of love, resilience, joy, and humanity as told by our Lightroom Ambassadors.

Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Ambassadors: Stories From Around The World Featuring Michael Aboya & Monaris

As We Are: Collaborative Portraits With Uganda’s Gulu Women With Disabilities Union

A series of collaborative portraits made with the Gulu Women with Disabilities Union (GUWODU) in Gulu, Uganda celebrating individuality and personal expression. From the custom-made outfits to the vibrant backdrops, the women guided every decision to best represent their individual stories and styles.

Boss Workers

American work has gotten increasingly unstable. It’s no wonder an increasing number are drawn to a model of working that gives them back some power. Welcome to worker co-ops—businesses where the workers literally own the place. Now, they are springing up across the nation.

Bronx Life

Four decades of my Bronx life: street life from a native son who lived through the fires and came back to document it.

Community Heroes: Bedford-Stuyvesant And Crown Heights

Community Heroes is a community organizing and public art project celebrating the everyday heroes of our neighborhoods.

Community Heroes: Fort Greene

Local artists, youth, and community members come together to celebrate those dedicated to strengthening and supporting Fort Greene, focusing on long-term historic residents. This is an ongoing annual collaboration with the Fort Greene Park Conservancy and Friends of Commodore Barry Park.

Congo In Conversation

Congo in Conversation is an innovative collaborative chronicle, presented by the Carmignac Photojournalism Award and Finbarr O’Reilly. It addresses the human, social, and ecological challenges that the Democratic Republic of Congo faces today.

dándoles sus flores (giving them their flowers)

giving them their flowers is a multimodal youth-led storytelling exhibit honoring matriarchs of color through collaged photographs and oral histories.

Dialogue With Plants

Dialogue with Plants documents the Shipibo-Konibo Indigenous people’s use of traditional plant-based medicine, while revealing the threats to the knowledge and use of the diverse flora as elders and Indigenous leaders face the COVID-19 pandemic.

Diaspora On The Frontlines

I am sharing the stories of Filipino nurses—a diaspora immensely affected by losses during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is my hope to share the lives behind the statistics and inform others on the colonial history that brought us here to America.

Essential, But No Guarantees

The service industry jobs that keep New York City’s heart ticking took a huge hit during the pandemic, leaving many people struggling. Meet some of those workers.

Eyewitness: Who Tells The Stories Of Our Time?

Eyewitness: Who Tells the Stories of Our Time? showcases the work of Eli Hiller, Sarahbeth Maney, and Joana Toro—recipients of the 2020 Eyewitness Photojournalism Grant, whose works center underreported stories across the United States.

Foreign Correspondent, Photographer, Storyteller: The Life And Legacy Of Christopher Dickey

Christopher Dickey’s pictures capture moments as though he is taking copious notes, wanting to freeze a point in time so as not to forget it.

FRIENDS, ART FOR HUMANITY: Reflections From Filipino American Frontline Healthcare Workers

Filipino healthcare workers are reflecting on the impactful moments of the last year, sharing their stories of pain, courage and resilience as frontline workers in New York City.

Give Her, Her Flowers

Give Her, Her Flowers is a series of collages that revolve around honoring Black women—giving them their flowers while they’re still alive to enjoy them. Featured are advertisements of Black women from a Gold Medal Hair Products catalog (circa 1980s), paired with a variety of flowers from different advertisements.

Goodbye Salad Days: Kevin Faces Adulthood

Goodbye Salad Days: Kevin Faces Adulthood features handmade dioramas as the backdrop for hamster Kevin’s humorous attempts to navigate a quarter life crisis. Dealing with dating, a dead-end job, his first gray hairs, and a blooming existential crisis, Kevin is stuck between youth and whatever comes next.

Here Is Where We Shall Stay

Pat Kane’s project Here is Where We Shall Stay focuses on how Dene people in the Northwest Territories of Northern Canada are moving towards meaningful self-determination by resetting the past atrocities of settler colonization.

Humans Of Dementia (2021)

This contest sheds light on a dark disease by telling the beautiful stories of people whose lives are not defined by the disease. By bringing these stories out from the shadows, together we remove the shame and stigma often surrounding an Alzheimer’s diagnosis.

In A Sense

In A Sense features the work of current MFA photography students from Parsons School of Design in New York City. It highlights various ways of seeing, representing, and creating within the medium of photography.

In Our Eyes

In Our Eyes highlights photography from New York City public middle school students who see the light in themselves and the world around them.

In Their Hands: Women Taking Ownership Of Peace

Through the lens of local women photographers, we seek to elevate, amplify and increase the visibility of women’s participation in—and their essential contributions to—peace and security.

Kensington Cares এলাকার যত্নে কেন্সিংটন / Kensington Se Cuida

When COVID-19 hit Kensington, people took care of one another. The Kensington Cares exhibit celebrates this collective movement on the Avenue C Plaza—a place of resilience and creativity.

Lakou NOU 2021

Lakou NOU features collaborative community-based art projects that explore what it means to be Haitian American—to belong to two cultures, two worlds—and to be Black in America while also staying true to your heritage.

Legacy

Lion’s Tooth Legacy Photo Project, uplifts the stories of seven immigrant and first generation youth photographers. Stories that reflect on the intersections of family, ancestors, joy, race, gender, faith and radical self-love as a way to deconstruct the legacy we choose to carry, heal and part ways from, but also build as future ancestors.

Living Lullabies

Living Lullabies illuminates critical concerns for women and children around the world by drawing on the storytelling from families’ nighttime rituals. It explores how caregivers prepare children for sleep in environments fraught with hazard, and highlights the unique role the lullaby plays in placemaking.

Messages To Those We’ve Lost: 9/11 Memorial Railings

Wooden railings from 9/11 commemoration events—covered in handwritten messages from victims’ family members—have been photographed and transcribed by the NYC Department of Records and Information Services to preserve the messages as a memorial to those we’ve lost.

Michelle V. Agins: A Retrospective Of A Pioneering New York Times Photographer

Michelle V. Agins has been a staff photographer for the New York Times for more than 30 years. This retrospective celebrates her work and her ongoing commitment to the photojournalism community.

Mystery Of The Disguised

Mystery Of the Disguised is a visual exploration of the construction of an imaginary with the oral story of a town in Veracruz called Coyolillo, an Afro-Mexican community in the south of Mexico—reframing their history to one of freedom.

On Turning Ten: An i3 Family Album

For 10 years, the SVA Masters in Digital Photography i3 Lecture Series has strived to be an open and inclusive forum for our industry. This anniversary exhibition celebrates our community with selected works from past speakers, and explores themes of family, love, and interconnectedness.

Paradise Lost & Found: Bushwick

Paradise Lost & Found: Bushwick is a snapshot of this section of Brooklyn during the tumultuous 1980s and early 1990s. Carrying a point-and-shoot camera to her job as an art teacher at IS 291 – Roland Hayes, Meryl Meisler’s images—kept secret for decades—are a personal memoir. Upon her retirement from teaching, she began releasing them into the world.

Preventing Overdose Deaths: How To Save And Uplift Lives

Staff, volunteers, and participants at community-based health and social justice organizations in Connecticut, Michigan, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania share their ideas about how to reduce overdose deaths and improve the lives of people who have been harmed by punitive drug policies, discrimination, and poverty.

Prospect Park: My Oasis In Brooklyn

Across 41 years of photographing in Prospect Park, Jamel Shabazz has captured reunion picnics, musicians, races, dog walks, and so much more in the beloved park he calls his “Oasis in Brooklyn.”

Rebel Vision

Reclaiming History

Monuments examine passive relics of America’s racist past in the Confederacy, the dynamic changing of these landscapes, and who will be honored now.

Rooted

Rooted is a series of images that uses cyanotype imaging of protests layered with plant silhouettes as an exploration of Indigenous identity—bearing witness while documenting the historic year the communities in Minnesota experienced in 2020.

Runa Kawsay: The Roots That Sustain Us

Runa Kawsay explores the nuances of Indigenous Kichwa identity from the personal experiences of the Kichwa community living in Turtle Island (North America).

Secrets of the Whales

Secrets of the Whales plunges viewers into the epicenter of whale culture, to experience the extraordinary communication skills and social structures of five whale species: orcas, humpbacks, belugas, narwhals, and sperm whales.

Self-Preservation

Black Women Photographers aims to disrupt the notion that it is difficult to discover and commission Black creatives. It is dedicated to providing a resource for the industry’s gatekeepers.

Small Details

Created in community with students and teachers at Digital Arts and Cinema Technology High School, Small Details highlights acts of resistance and change through lens-based media. Each piece documents a “small detail” displaying moments and actions of change. Through exhibiting our complex world views, our hope is to uplift others to reflect on the many ways they can create change.

Stoop Stories: City Kids

Stoop Stories™ is a documentary storytelling platform designed to connect, support, and celebrate our New York City neighbors— especially those hardest hit by the pandemic and systemic inequities.

System Error

System Error highlights the work of important activists who are on the ground working to reform our prison systems. Our exhibit hopes to inspire others as it it did us—you do not need to be on the frontline or have a personal connection to bring change.

syzygy, the vision

In this self-portrait series entitled syzygy, the vision, Flash is observing the straight-line configuration of our pasts, presents, and futures. This multi-dimensional contemplation considers vast dimensions of intersectional disadvantages, cultural conflicts, and unsettling legacies.

Teaching Creativity: Making Art In A Pandemic

Teachers at two New York City public high schools share work made by their students during the pandemic. Students turned their lenses inward and made work exploring domestic life—sharing their photography with family and friends during this challenging school year.

Ten Years Of War Through The Eyes Of 16 Syrian Photographers

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) coordinates the global emergency response to save lives and protect people in humanitarian crises.

The Atlantic’s Inheritance: A Project About American History, Black Life, And The Resilience Of Memory

The Atlantic’s Inheritance is an ongoing reporting project that endeavors to fill the blank pages of Black history: to piece together, through reporting and data, the crucial events and conversations that have been intentionally left out of America’s story.

The Four Elements

The Four Elements from the Visual Thinking Collective showcases four bodies of work—the elements visually interpreted by: Nadia Aly (Water), selected by Lauren Steel; Oded Balilty (Earth), selected by Sarah Leen; realities:united (Air), selected by Shannon Simon; and Marcus Yam (Fire), selected by Elizabeth Krist.

The International Photo Festival Leiden Presents: 15 Talented Photographers From Europe

The International Photo Festival Leiden (IPFL) offers emerging European photographers a stage in the first phase of their professional career. The IPFL creates an international platform with a high visibility and advertising value. The photographers show their work and get into contact with a broad and international photography-loving audience.

The Last Chapter Of War In Afghanistan

America may be ending the 20-year “endless war,” but the way it is leaving Afghanistan will certainly mean the start of another phase of fighting in this war-torn country.

The Last Dagestanese Tightrope Walkers

The Luupe Presents: Food Visions

Visions of Food, curated by The Luupe, is an exhibition of women and non-binary photographers reimagining how we see and experience food.

The Makin’

The People That Are Within These Frames: A Community Offers Self-Portraits

The Bronx Documentary Center’s both senior and junior photo leagues were asked by the New York Times to make self-portraits; how they defined self-portrait was up to them. Their resulting images are an insight into who they are and what they’ve reflected on at home during the time of COVID-19.

The Port Authority Of NY&NJ: Moving The Region For A Century

A chronicle of the centennial of the Port Authority, including the creation of container shipping, the raising of a bridge to accommodate newer, larger ships, and the Port Authority’s continuing investment in port facilities that remain as vital for commerce today as they did 100 years ago.

These Years

Through A Circular Lens

Unsettled

UNSETTLED is a project on change. The project documents the effects of shifting environmental, ecological, political, and economical decisions on the environment and its society. Approached from the harbor expansion zone of Antwerp in Belgium, it portrays a topic of global relevance.

Views From Coney Island

Despite the incessant predictions of its demise, Coney Island continues to attract visitors of all races, social classes and ethnicities, who, seeking respite from their quotidian stresses and routines, come together and inject the veins of “America’s Playground” with its celebrated joie de vivre.

W. Eugene Smith Grant For Humanistic Photography, 2021 Finalists

WEINDE

WEINDE is an iteration of Afro Diaries. It is a mixed-media collage series of photography reflective of African emancipation, flight, futuristic cities, travel, and spirituality.

Women In The Face Of History

Women Of Arctic Science

Women On The Move