Remsen Wolff (1940-1998) was a New York artist and poet who created the “Special Girls – A Celebration” series in the 1990s, featuring portraits of individuals challenging gender from Amsterdam and New York.
“I insist on having their beauty shown,” – Remsen Wolff, 1998.
Learn MoreThis photographic series explores the subtle boundary between invitation and distance within domestic space. Most of the subjects are portrayed in their living rooms—the area traditionally reserved for receiving guests—positioning the viewer as a visitor momentarily welcomed into an intimate environment.
Learn MoreI turn my lens toward Staten Island, a place that exists on the edge of New York City and yet feels worlds apart. The island’s contradictions fascinate me: its deep-rooted sense of community alongside political division, its suburban quiet against the backdrop of the city’s noise.
Learn MoreThe Community Gardener Portrait Project features portraits and accompanying interview excerpts produced over the past eight years by Zachary Schulman. The project explores the creation, stewardship, and impact of community gardens and gardeners across New York City.
Learn MoreSince 2019, CatchLight’s Local Visual Desk and Report for America have partnered to support visual journalism in local newsrooms throughout the country. Their photographs illuminate and preserve the unique and shared moments that shape our communities and our understanding of one another.
Learn MoreCafecito: What Keeps Us breaks the rules of the traditional exhibition, celebrating lo-fi production, personal archives, and the messy humanity behind images that outlive us.
Fresh Mercado is a visual culture platform translating creative intelligence for the future of image-making, helping professionals, artists, and in-house teams navigate the intersection of photography, design, and AI.
Learn MoreThe ÅFRÖSWÈ̩DÉ̩ photography project visualizes and celebrates what integration feels like, when we can seamlessly blend all facets of our identities without having to choose one or the other.
Learn MoreNow+Then is a teen art project that explores archival family photos through research, interviews, and artmaking.
Learn MoreA student-led portrait exhibition where Central Brooklyn youth photograph one another and reflect on love, peace, power, and freedom, inviting the public into a shared space of listening, recognition, and self-defined storytelling.
Learn MoreA visual journey following cumbia across six countries, capturing the people, places and traditions that sustain the music as it evolves across borders and generations to remain a powerful expression of culture and identity.
Learn MoreAmares Azielos is a collaborative cyanotype project with young migrants in prison, reclaiming visibility, memory, and agency through shared photographic creation and collective authorship.
Learn MoreOzark Life weaves together everyday moments from my family and community in rural Arkansas as the changing seasons and passage of time move us through life in the hills we call home.
Learn MoreRed Hook Art Project (RHAP) presents I Am Not Broken, a 2026 art series designed to empower students to explore, express, and share their personal narratives through art by confronting the challenges and complexities of their lives while amplifying the strength, resilience, and creativity inherent in their communities.
Learn MoreAs the United States marks its 250th anniversary, women of the Blackfeet Nation are working to revive a medicinal plant pushed toward extinction by the country’s expansion.
Learn MoreThe Aftermath Project is a non-profit organization driven by the idea that “War is only half the story,” supporting photographers committed to telling the other half of a conflict’s story through grants and educational programming.
Learn MoreA documentary photography and storytelling project centering BIPOC entrepreneurs who manufacture in New York City, showcasing how they transform passion into production while navigating the challenges of building businesses in one of the world’s toughest markets.
Learn MoreAs the American Southwest endures the worst drought in 1,200 years, a story told through two communities illustrates the deep inequities in water access, and a supply divided along racial lines.
Learn MoreAs photography fragments and evolves in our post-truth space, Cafecito: A Proclamation of Presence celebrates image-makers who boldly proclaim their stories through their visual language, asserting presence & power while weaving threads of understanding between communities.
Learn MoreHeritage in Focus was launched in 2022 as an innovative fellowship offering emerging photographers the opportunity to document historic places and their stewards.
Learn MoreAs most New Yorkers have a long, loving, and even passionate relationship with what they call “their” local bodega, Mahka Eslami’s Bodega Boys series intimately portrays the many members of the Yemeni-American community in Brooklyn who operate these colorful cornerstones of the New York experience.
Learn MoreBoy Wonder invites viewers into a nostalgic exploration of boyhood through photography. With a focus on the unrestrained imagination, fearless energy, and creative spirit of childhood, the series celebrates the magic of make-believe, playful rebellion, and the joy of discovery. Through powerful visuals, it offers a tender reflection on resilience, innocence, and the wonder that defined our early years.
Learn MoreWhat we inherit is an artistic exploration of my Japanese heritage using images of kimonos and scrapbooks from the 1930s-60s that I inherited from my grandparents.
Learn MoreThe Alice Austen House education team worked with PS 60, The Alice Austen School 4th Grade students on a photographic unit inspired by Alice Austen and their own cultural heritage.
Learn MoreThis project demonstrates how elements of culture, such as traditional religious practices and dominant notions of beauty, grooming, and embellishment, influence fashion styles.
Learn MoreHome Reimaginings explores how we see/interpret concepts of home.
Learn MoreA photo documentary unveiling the rich mosaic lives of American Muslims, challenging stereotypes and fostering empathy to promote inclusivity and understanding.
Learn MoreFinding Home is a project about the reestablishment of the 273 students and staff of Afghanistan’s National Institute of Music in Portugal.
Learn More“Made Of Smokeless Fire” is an exploration of LGBTQIA+ identities within Muslim culture in France, which are often underrepresented and simply ignored. France has the largest proportion of Muslims in the Western world, estimated at 8.8% of the population, or 5.57 million people. But islamophobia is still omnipresent
Learn MoreMigrant Herbalism is a project that examines the belief system of traditional Indigenous and Afro-descendant Latin American medicine and how their knowledge, healing practices, and rituals have migrated with forced displacement to the United States.
Learn MoreInspired by the longing for ancestral remembrance through the traditional family album, the Clayton Sisterhood Project explores contemporary kinship, and the continuing legacy built by the photographer’s sisters and nieces from Queens, NY moving onto Clayton, North Carolina land together.
Learn MoreIn the journey to feel at home in our Asian American or Pacific Islander identities, we may encounter different versions of ourselves. Through this collaboration, nine Asian photographers share the histories, meanings and stories behind our names.
Learn MoreIndigo cultivation helped fuel American slavery. Today, women artists and homesteaders in South Carolina are writing a new chapter in indigo’s painful history.
Learn MoreICP at THE POINT: Beauty in Being is an exhibition of photographs by students from the International Center of Photography’s partnership with THE POINT CDC, which celebrates local voices honoring the people, places, and things that keep us uplifted in our everyday lives.
Learn MoreRekha works long hours at a male dominated fish market under the scorching sun. Everything from her optimism to her colorful skirts set her apart. She works long hours and lives happily in a tiny slum. Despite what she has overcome in her life, she is resilient and cares for the others in her community. The goldfish signifies that you are called to help others, that change is always happening, and you must learn to go with the flow.
Learn MoreA Quality Of Light – to channel Audre Lorde – “has direct bearing” on what the photograph brings forth into the world, and, in turn, on what the artist aspires to contribute to the complex image universe.
Learn MorePhotographic images that encapsulate the stories, the people and the powerful landscape of Barbados, the Southeastern island in the Caribbean sea.
Learn MoreNow in its third iteration, Picturing Black Girlhood: Black Utopia how restages intimate Black girl narratives made through the reifying lens of Black women and genderqueer artists and the real-time experiences and perspectives of Black girls themselves while exploring the powerful connections between Black girlhood open space, and the natural world.
Learn MoreAffirmation of the third gender in Oaxaca, Mexico, and the redefinition of morality.
Learn MoreKarabo Mooki’s work follows unique narratives and authentic emotions in nature, with a focus on distinctive casting and under-represented faces.
Learn MoreFanmi M, Men Yo! (“My Family, There They Are!”) is a series of abstract photographs of queer Haitians in history, culture, and the current reality. The work, created as a Lakou NOU 2022 artist-in-residence with Haiti Cultural Exchange, celebrates and acknowledges the fluidity of queer Haitians, honoring their ability to imagine and create kind futures for the queer community in New York, Haiti and around the world.
Learn MoreEveryday Bronx is an exhibition based on the popular Instagram account, which celebrates the daily life and beauty of The Bronx.
Learn MoreWorking Assumptions is proud to partner with Citizen Film on American Creed: Citizen Power, a documentary initiative exploring American idealism and community leadership from a range of young adult perspectives. A selection of cast members are using our wrkxfmly assignment to tell visual stories about how they care for friends, families, home, communities, the land, and democracy itself.
Learn MoreA photo documentary of the Black cowboy and cowgirl culture throughout America.
Learn MoreCelebrating Le Grand Boubou: A dress that reinvents itself for centuries
Learn MoreFaces of Us: Photographic Portraits and Personal Narratives by students of IN-Tech Academy MS/HS 368, The Bronx, NYC
Learn MoreSpeaking Portraits elevate our experiences, reveal hidden truths, and inform the viewer about what is most meaningful to us.
Learn MoreA peek into the kaleidoscope of festivals that paint the canvas of India.
Learn MorePresented by The Division of Continuing Education at the School of Visual Arts
SVACE is pleased to present Throned, a solo exhibition by SVACE and SVA MFA Photography and Related Media alumna Tiffany Smith, featuring a selection of photographs taken from the artist’s ongoing series which showcases a variety of portraits portraying community members.
Learn MorePresented by Caribbean Equality Project and Queens Museum
Live Pridefully: Love and Resilience within Pandemics is an interdisciplinary exhibition presented by the Caribbean Equality Project. The exhibition celebrates queer and trans Caribbean resilience through a racial justice lens, while fostering critical conversations related to pride, migration, surviving colliding pandemics, and coming out narratives.
Learn MoreLakou 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.
Learn MoreMonuments examine passive relics of America’s racist past in the Confederacy, the dynamic changing of these landscapes, and who will be honored now.
Learn MorePortraits of traditional peoples of the Amazon, and their sacred territories.
Featuring photographer Mohammed Q. Amin discussing his exhibition Live Pridefully: Love and Resilience Within Pandemics
Learn MoreFeaturing photographer Tiffany Smith discussing his exhibition Throned
Learn MoreJoin National Geographic photographers Philip Cheung, Kris Graves, and Daniella Zalcman in conversation with National Geographic Executive Editor Debra Adams Simmons, as they discuss their ongoing projects visualizing racist and discriminatory histories through a new lens.
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.
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