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Exhibitions Tagged #Cultural Representation

Clayton Sisterhood Project

Roy Wilkins Park
 archive : 2023

Inspired 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.

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Asian Photographers Share the Stories Behind Their Names

Bella Abzug Park
 archive : 2023

In 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.

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Children of Indigo

Old Fulton Street and Prospect Street
 archive : 2023

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

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ICP at THE POINT: Beauty in Being

Baretto Point Park
 archive : 2023

ICP 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.

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Fanmi M, Men Yo!/My Family, There They Are

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2023

Fanmi 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.

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The Sea of Devotees

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2023

A peek into the kaleidoscope of festivals that paint the canvas of India.

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Speaking Portraits

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2023

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

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Faces of Us: Portraits and Personal Narratives

IN-Tech Academy MS/HS 368
 archive : 2023

Faces of Us: Photographic Portraits and Personal Narratives by students of IN-Tech Academy MS/HS 368, The Bronx, NYC

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Le Grand Boubou (The Grand Dress)

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2023

Celebrating Le Grand Boubou: A dress that reinvents itself for centuries

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The Black Cowboys of America

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2023

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

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Citizen Power: Youth Perspectives on Care & Citizenship

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2023

Working 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.

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The Goldfish Project

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2023

Rekha 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.

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Everyday Bronx

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2023

Everyday Bronx is an exhibition based on the popular Instagram account, which celebrates the daily life and beauty of The Bronx.

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Amandla

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2023

Karabo Mooki’s work follows unique narratives and authentic emotions in nature, with a focus on distinctive casting and under-represented faces.

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Sandunga Nunca Muere

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2023

Affirmation of the third gender in Oaxaca, Mexico, and the redefinition of morality.

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PICTURING BLACK GIRLHOOD: Black Utopia

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2023

Now 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.

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A Love Letter To Barbados

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2023

Photographic images that encapsulate the stories, the people and the powerful landscape of Barbados, the Southeastern island in the Caribbean sea.

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A Quality Of Light

Old Fulton Street and Prospect Street
 archive : 2023

A 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.

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Throned by Tiffany Smith

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 1
 archive : 2022

Presented 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.

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Live Pridefully: Love and Resilience within Pandemics

Brooklyn Bridge Park – New Dock Street
 archive : 2022

Presented 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.

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Lakou NOU 2021

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Fulton Ferry Landing
 archive : 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.

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Reclaiming History

Washington Street and Prospect Street
 archive : 2021

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

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Seeds of Resistance

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 3
 archive : 2020

Portraits of traditional peoples of the Amazon, and their sacred territories.

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Events and Sessions Tagged #Cultural Representation

Jun 102022

Photoville Education Field Trips: Mohammed Q. Amin

Featuring photographer Mohammed Q. Amin discussing his exhibition Live Pridefully: Love and Resilience Within Pandemics

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Jun 82022

Photoville Education Field Trips: Tiffany Smith

Featuring photographer Tiffany Smith discussing his exhibition Throned

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Oct 32021

New Authors, Old Histories

Join 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.

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Sep 162017

Reclaiming Photography

A 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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