Olmsted’s Enduring Gift
Litchfield Villa Lawn, Prospect Park
Presented by The New York Times
Additional Support by Prospect Park Alliance and NYC Parks
The man behind many of the nation’s beloved public spaces, Frederick Law Olmsted, was born 200 years ago. His creations are more essential to modern American life than ever.
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Sustainable Solutions to the Climate Crisis
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
Presented by Social Documentary Network, ZEKE Magazine
These documentary exhibits explore sustainable solutions to the climate crisis: the Indigenous People’s Burn Network in the western United States; Nemo’s Garden in Italy — the world’s first underwater greenhouse; the African Women Rising’s Permagarden Program in Uganda, and others.
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Everything in Between: A Spectrum of Emerging Visions
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
Presented by NYU Tisch Department of Photography and Imaging and Photoville, in partnership with PhotoWings
Recipient of the 2022 Photoville & PhotoWings Educator Exhibition Grant
Twelve high school photographers present unique perspectives and artistic approaches to stories about the environment, relationships, fashion, dreams, immigration, mental health, and more.
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Made in Land: Spoken Memories
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
Presented by The 400 Years Project and Photoville
Indigenous artists Dakota Mace and Tahila Mintz engage alternative photographic processes and use soil, plants, water, and sun directly in the image-making process to tell stories about the past, present, and future of the land — stories that connect them to their ancestors, and to themselves.
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Solastalgia
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
Presented by The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Solastalgia documents the relationship between people and their environments, focusing on the distress caused by a changing climate. It reveals the threats to our planet that affect us all — from Indigenous communities in the Amazon and alpaca farmers in Peru, to the Arctic and the United States.
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Unsettled
Old Fulton Street and Prospect Street
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.
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These Years
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 3
An exhibition of works by SVACE’s transcultural and transgenerational community that address the global events of the last five years, in celebration of the fifth anniversary of our annual Art & Activism events series.
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Trump Revolution: Climate Crisis
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 6
Through photos, words, and multimedia, the Bronx Documentary Center exhibition, Trump Revolution: Climate Crisis, documents the current president’s overturning of decades of American environmental policy, and its profound effects on American society, and our planet at large.
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Stories for the Arctic Refuge
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
Stories for the Arctic Refuge explores the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge along with the hundreds of species that depend on it, as well as the Gwich’in and Iñupiat people who rely on it to live, and the big industries that threatens its existence.
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Waterkeeper Warriors
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
Meet the Waterkeeper Warriors who are fighting horrific acts of pollution and environmental injustice to protect every person’s right to clean water. Photographed by twenty Culture Trip photographers around the globe, with stories told by notable voices.
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With Water, Without Water
Annenberg Space for Photography
With Water/Without Water is a group exhibition that collectively tells the story of the importance to California of this vital but limited resource.
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California Calamities: A State of Emergency
Annenberg Space for Photography
During the past two years, California has experienced some of the deadliest calamities in the state’s 169-year history.
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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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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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Carbon’s Casualties: How Climate Change is Upending Life Around the World
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
Through intimate photographs and dramatic drone footage, Josh Haner explores this pressing reality, bringing to light the life-changing effects of climate change in communities around the globe.
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Killing the Black Snake: Resistance at Standing Rock
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
The protest against plans to pass the Dakota Access pipeline underneath the Missouri River, just north of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota, was considered by many involved to be the time of that prophesy. Indigenous people from around the globe, but especially North America, “heard the call” and traveled to North Dakota to set up a resistance camp against the pipeline.
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MVP: The Millennium Villages Project
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
In 2015, the nations of the world agreed to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals and move humankind toward prosperity, social inclusion, and environmental sustainability. Can United Nations goals actually make a difference? The evidence is powerful and encouraging.
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Where Will We Go: The Human Consequences of Rising Sea Levels
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
For two years, I have been looking at the global consequences of rising sea levels caused by climate change. Today, no one doubts that glaciers the world over are retreating and, even more worryingly, that Greenland and Antarctica are melting at an increasing pace. The question: how fast ?
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Toxic Sites US
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
Toxic Sites US (toxicsites.us) is an online data visualization and sharing platform for the over 1300 Superfund sites or the worst toxic contamination sites in the US as designated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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EverydayClimateChange / Photographers from 6 continents documenting climate change on 7 continents.
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
EverydayClimateChange (@everydayclimatechange) Instagram feed photographers share photographs made on 7 continents to present visual evidence that climate change doesn’t just happen “over there” but that climate change is also happening “right here.”
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Traces: Navigating the Frontline of Climate Change
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
One in five people in the world get their water from great Asian rivers linked to the Qinghai-Tibet plateau in northwestern China. Here beneath a gently undulating landscape, spring the headwaters of the Yellow River, which sweep three thousands miles across China on their way to the sea. When they make it.
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Ocean Beach
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
As a photographer Douglas is interested in the cottages still showing signs of a bygone era when wood paneling, vibrant colors, and kitsch decorations were the order of the day. He always felt it was a race against time to visually preserve the cottages. That was based on the rapid pace of cottages being renovated and modernized to attract more potential vacationers on the competitive rental market.
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How Sandy Hit Rockaway
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
Almost a year after Hurricane Sandy hit the coastal areas of New York and New Jersey, the road to recovery is still long and hard. With so many images in the mass media depicting landscapes of devastation and disaster immediately after Hurricane Sandy, How Sandy Hit Rockaway focuses on the people affected by the disaster and the unique obstacles to recovery facing each individual.
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Fractured: The Shale Play
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
The rush to drill down and explode the ground in pursuit of energy is transforming the natural landscape in rural America. Photographing this kind of industrial activity presents a paradox.
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Tent Life: Haiti
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 3
In “Tent Life: Haiti,” the Open Society Foundations will present American photographer Wyatt Gallery, who spent a year documenting the tragic living conditions in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake.
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Oct
22021
Presentation And Discussion With The 2021 ZEKE Award Recipients
Three ZEKE Award recipients will present their winning projects and discuss doing documentary work in different parts of the world.
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Sep
202019
Documenting Inequality and Climate Change: The Double Threat to Life on Earth
Learn how to sustain your ongoing visual story with New York photographer and curator Rene Perez. In this talk, Rene will analyze how his life-long fascination with the magic hour became a long-term photo project.
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Sep
162018
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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Sep
162018
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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Sep
132017
Climates in Conflict
From Afghanistan to Colombia and Somalia, environmental changes have dire implications for security and are harbingers of global risks to come. What’s being done to address these concerns? What more can be done? How can visual storytelling help?
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Sep
192015
Documenting Natural Resources and Climate Change: Photography as a Tool for Education and Activating Change
In effort to create direct dialogue between journalists and policy makers, photographers Mustafah Abdulaziz and James Whitlow Delano will discuss their ongoing photography projects on water and climate change with moderator, Janos Pasztor, UN Assistant Secretary-General for Climate Change.
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Sep
212014
Land Grabbing: Raising Awareness with Multimedia
Using land grabbing as a case study, photographer Alfredo Bini and media executive Greg Moyer meet with non-profit organizations and researchers to discuss the potential for issue-based multimedia storytelling.
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