I Hope Summer Never Ends
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
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Obidigbo Nzeribe imbues his portraiture with the fleeting feeling of summer. As a fashion photographer, he pushes the edges of creativity through collaboration in set design and experimentation with generative AI tools.
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Maiden Name
Alice Austen House
Presented by The Alice Austen House and NYC Parks
Having grown up on Staten Island, David Lê uses its urban fabric as a backdrop for his Maiden Name Spring-Summer 2022 lookbook.
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Live Pridefully: Love and Resilience within Pandemics
Brooklyn Bridge Park – New Dock Street
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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Teaching Creativity: Making Art In A Pandemic
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 3
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.
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Redefining Beauty
Washington Street and Prospect Street
Beauty standards are at once a celebration of femininity, and an agent of conformity. Around the world, technology and social media have put the power to define beauty in the hands of the people. We are in an expansive moment where everyone is beautiful.
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The Last Season I & II
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
The Last Season I & II by Harmen Meinsma focuses on the cultural diversity of Rotterdam-West (NL) and the inhabitants of the campsite Hoek van Holland (NL) by selecting extraordinary personalities that he meets on the streets and photographing them using exaggerated styling and glamorous lighting. It’s a celebration of being older, different, and of not being afraid to stand out in a crowd.
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Walk This Way
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
Walk This Way takes us on a 30+ year visual exploration of April Walker’s rich history and fashion journey. From Walker’s roots in Brooklyn, to her trailblazing Walker Wear fashion brand, to her agility as an entrepreneur, Walk This Way cements history with iconic moments in time.
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The Palace Wild
Annenberg Space for Photography
Haddon documents the collaboration where the human figure as armature helps to breathe life into the original stories that the clothing is longing to tell.
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to live & die in LA
Annenberg Space for Photography
In the Pull-Up series, close-up photographs of the waist area become landscape inspired compositions: bands of color formed by shirt, underwear, and low-slung pants.
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Telling a story and selling an idea: Teaching Creativity
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
The students’ work exhibited here centers around telling a story (HSFI) and selling an idea (Art & Design). Students who were juniors and seniors during the 2017-2018 school year will be present to show their work and discuss their relationships with their teachers and fellow students.
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Boda Boda Madness
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
Meet Mad Max Driver, Machette, Vibze, Ghost Rider, Red Devil, Lion and The Rasta Driver! These motor drivers proudly cruise through Nairobi wearing dazzling outfits on their matching bikes. The outfits are designed by Ugandan-Kenyan fashion designer Bobbin Case in the context of the collaborative project, “Boda Boda Madness” by Bobbin and Dutch artist Jan Hoek.
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Selected work from FIT Graduating Show 2017
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
Students graduating from the Photography and the Digital Image Bachelor of Fine Arts program at the Fashion Institute of Technology exhibited their senior thesis projects in a group-curated show on the school’s campus in May 2017, as part of the annual School of Art and Design Graduating Student Exhibition.
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Faithfully
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
This collection of portraits was taken in Lalibela, Ethiopia. I took these pictures in one of the biggest markets in the city of Lalibela. As a fashion designer and photographer, I found people that visually caught my attention. I wanted to show colorful and stylish people in different ages. Basically, I was looking for fashion inspiration in the area, because people wear their best clothes when they go to the market.
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Global Goods, Local Costs: Fashion’s True Price
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
Global Goods, Local Costs: Fashion’s True Price is a visual exploration of the human lives affected by the production of the clothing and accessories we wear every day.
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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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Sep
142019
Walk This Way
Join Vikki Tobak, author of Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop, as she interviews April Walker, lifestyle entrepreneur, author, health/wellness advocate, and creator of one of the first urban fashion brands, WalkerWear.
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Sep
222018
On Assignment: Fashion Photography in the Real World
Develop skills and confidence on set through productive teamwork and dedicated feedback sessions, and discover what it takes to make it in fashion photography today.
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Sep
152017
A Conversation with Deb Willis & Brendan Wattenberg
In this conversation, Deborah Willis speaks with Brendan Wattenberg, managing editor of Aperture Magazine, about the iconic images central to Willis’s career, tracing themes of representation and beauty in historic archives, photojournalism, fashion, and fine art photography from the nineteenth century to the present.
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Sep
142017
New York Magazine Presents: The 43-Day Fashion Shoot
To celebrate New York Fashion week, Photoville is partnering with New York Magazine and their Director of Photography Jody Quon in a discussion about the magazine’s history and approach to fashion. The talk will feature Holly Andres’ “The 43-Day Fashion Shoot,” a photo portfolio commissioned by the magazine, which sent Andres around the nation to meet American women and their Americas, dressing them in some of the season’s clothing.
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Sep
232016
Photography Wide Open
Stretch your imagination and prepare yourself for an incredible journey into the wide open world of photography with fashion and fine art photographer Mark de Paola. Using his wealth of still and motion imagery, Mark will demonstrate how his use of the Leica Noctilux allows him to dance on the threshold of exposure and minimum focus distances to render his style and approach to portraiture.
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Sep
272014
Breaking Into Fashion
In this seminar, we’ll be discussing the overall landscape of fashion photography and how it’s changed over time. We’ll talk about the ins and outs of assisting, developing your style, portfolio reviews, and provide valuable tips and insights gained from years of experience shooting fashion editorial and advertising campaigns.
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Sep
192014
Fashion Photographer Meets Photo Editor: A Love Story
If there were an award for coolest fashion photographer, Melissa Rodwell might just take the cake. As a trailblazing fashion photographer and educator, Melissa joins Eryka Clayton, the photo editor at The Collective Magazine, to offer a behind-the-scenes look at how photographers and their editors work closely together to map out and execute stellar ideas.
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Sep
292013
Lighting for Fashion
Students will be led through different lighting systems to produce images for both commercial and editorial use. Explore lighting, posing, and styling techniques for catalog and artistic fashion imagery.
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Jun
282012
The Art of Fashion Portraiture
Fashion is much more than glossy magazines and designer labels. Discover how to translate a portrait into an iconic fashion image.
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