Perspective Playgrounds: A Journey Through Urban Illusions

From gravity-defying illusions to mind-bending distortions, each photograph offers a fresh perspective on the urban environment. Martin Lindner challenges us to reconsider our perceptions and embrace the boundless creativity to see the world in new and unexpected ways and redefining reality as a playground for imagination.

Material

Material, by the artist Elizabeth Casasola, won Best Latam Women’s Project 2023 in Enfoque – Conecta Internationalization Platform and Network for Latin American Photography, Bogotá International Festival, Latin American Photography Foundation. It was also exhibited in the Second Javier Ramírez Limón Photography Contest at the Museo de Arte de Sonora.

Vivarium

Vivarium is a series of constructed dioramas by Dutch artist Dirk Hardy. For each Episode, Hardy meticulously designs, crafts and photographs a new world in his studio, creating meaningful narratives around topics like racial profiling, gender roles, modern working conditions and more.

Beings

Throughout these years, without planning it, my son Elías and I have constructed an extensive collection of fantastical beings that take shape in our images.

Herbolario Migrante (Migrant Herbalism)

Migrant Herbalism is a project that examines the belief system of traditional Indigenous and Afro-descendant Latin American medicine and how their knowledge, healing practices, and rituals have migrated with forced displacement to the United States.

Children of Indigo

Indigo cultivation helped fuel American slavery. Today, women artists and homesteaders in South Carolina are writing a new chapter in indigo’s painful history.

The Art of the Contortion

Apart from the bodily characteristics of flexibility, strength and apparent double-jointedness, a contortionist requires years of dedication to extremes of discipline and training, often beginning in childhood, to acquire the fluid artistry needed to create a serpentine dance of the human body.

Speaking Portraits

Speaking Portraits elevate our experiences, reveal hidden truths, and inform the viewer about what is most meaningful to us.

Photography Reimagined

Photography can come in many shapes and forms (even more so in today’s digital age), and as an art form there is no right or wrong. We need to understand the context and background behind why a photographer creates the work they create.

The Black Cowboys of America

A photo documentary of the Black cowboy and cowgirl culture throughout America.

The Crown and Glory Project

The Crown & Glory Project celebrates underrepresented young creatives in NYC, challenging them to create DIY crowns from unconventional and found materials, as well as create collaborative photo portraits wearing their crowns that capture their individuality and goals as future creative leaders.

Blue

Using the color blue, which for hundreds of years has been associated with melancholy and sadness – Heather Evans Smith’s series, Blue, explores the depression many women often feel during mid-life.

Tributaries

Tributaries is a group exhibition featuring the works of three lens-based artists and members of the School of Visual Arts Continuing Education community, residency participant Murat Kahya, SVACE student Nivia Hernandez, and SVACE faculty member Esteban Toro.

War Toys: Children’s Stories of Survival and Loss

War Toys uses an art-therapy-based approach to safely collaborate with war-affected children and recreate their personal accounts through narrative photographs of locally sourced toys, placed and posed at the actual locations.

The Creative Ambassadors Project

Presented by Sharon Miller for Honeydark Studios and Photoville

The Creative Ambassadors Project is an impactful photo series showcasing underserved New York City youth in powerful editorial-style portraits based on their creative career aspirations.

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.

Routine Crusher

Winner of the 2012 Pulse Prize, Estonian photographer Sigrid Viir delights in creating new situations that surprise, amuse, and make us feel uncomfortable, all at the same time. In “Routine Crusher,” she plays around with everyday objects and understanding.