Nature Seen with Lifestyles For The Disabled. Highlights from the photography program.
Learn MoreGrowing With the Landscape Side by Side, weaves a natural setting of hope and resilience to the local landscape of Staten Island, and its regrowth since the Clean Water Act of 1972.
Learn MoreDazzling in flight, mysteriously resistant to disease, and vital to ecosystems around the globe—bats are a scientific wonder.
Learn MoreA photographic celebration of the 40th anniversary of Alice Austen House Museum.
Learn MoreAEROGLYPH is a solo exhibition by Reuben Wu featuring light-based landscape works that merge technology and nature—transforming remote environments into otherworldly scenes through drone light interventions and photography.
Learn MoreFrom the harbor views of Austen’s front doorstep to the international waters of her extensive travels, Picturing the Water explores Austen’s deep connection to waterways and the vessels that traverse them.
Learn MoreEach year these iconic butterflies undertake one of the most extraordinary—and increasingly dangerous—journeys on the planet. Now, scientists and citizens are joining forces to help them thrive.
Learn MoreThe all-girls photography club at the Urban Assembly Institute of Math and Science for Young Women creates cyanotypes with hydroponic lab equipment in an effort to artfully catalog the plants that are growing at their school.
Learn MoreAn exhibition of Alice Austen’s nature photography from the Victorian era.
Learn MoreThe return of the National Bison Range to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes is a powerful example of landback in action, restoring Indigenous stewardship, cultural heritage, and ecological balance.
Learn More“Brady’s Pond” is an ongoing collection of images made from recurring walks through Staten Island’s sliver of public access land along the pond’s northeast shore.
Learn More“Far Apart” is a photographic love letter to Shore Road Park, a narrow strip of playgrounds, wooded paths, and ball fields in Brooklyn that overlooks Staten Island and the Verrazano Narrows, the waterway that leads into New York Harbor.
Learn MoreIn the spotted hyenas’ world, females rule. That may be the secret to their success.
Learn MoreMineral Matter is a photography series by artist Brooke Holm that explores the interplay between Iceland’s dynamic river deltas and traces of humankind’s curiosity.
Learn MoreThis collection of images is a glimpse into Tekpatl’s relationship with traditional food systems and the natural world through his perspective and the teachings of others.
Learn MoreSome of Mother Nature’s most incredible moments are fleeting and unpredictable. Those “blink and you’ll miss it” moments are among the most special that we can experience in this life. With this collection, Tiffany Nguyen takes us on a journey alongside to capture the magical feeling of Earth’s rare moments.
Learn More“Waha واحة” (oasis in Arabic) is a four-year photographic research project aimed at understanding the complex relationship between people, their environment, and the history of the territories they inhabit.
Learn More‘Our Interconnected World’ showcases stunning images that are not just photographs; they are windows into ecosystems, cautionary tales of human impact, and visual invitations to take action.
Learn MoreA flat-topped peak high above the Amazon rainforest gives researchers a chance to identify new species and unlock secrets of evolution. The biggest challenge: getting there.
Learn MoreThis is a love letter to our connection with the natural world, a way to realize we are not external to nature. Our place within it is filled with…moments.
Learn MoreTributaries 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.
Learn MoreThis Land is Your Land is an assemblage of appropriated materials, photography, and artifacts that ask the viewer to consider their own associations with the National Parks. Viewers are asked to acknowledge land and race as it applies to the nostalgia, colonization and learned truths.
Learn MoreThe world is in a constant state of change, and we see it everywhere; from the smallest details in the biggest cities to the grand vistas of the wilderness. Join ASMP which also includes selections from members of NANPA as it displays a selection of works from its members that illuminate and reveal the changes happening all around us.
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Samuel Partal makes photographs of the post-natural landscape. He lives and works in Staten Island, New York.
Learn MorePresented by Arts Brookfield, in partnership with Photoville
It was the longest night of the year here on the Weddell Sea. On the solstice, the sunset and sunrise happen side by side on the horizon — only two hours apart. The colors of the sunset merged into the colors of the sunrise. It felt surreal — the neon colors, the symmetry, and the pieces of ice — like a dream on a distant planet.
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Presented by National Geographic
The vast and varied ecosystem of thousands of plant and animal species is a place of astonishing resilience — but it needs the support of Kenyans and Tanzanians to survive.
Learn MorePresented by Visual Thinking Collective and Photoville
Nature Nurtures features the work of 12 photographers who have documented how nature inspires and sustains them, brings solace to others, and is a powerful antidote to the stresses of contemporary life.
Learn MoreAcross 41 years of photographing in Prospect Park, Jamel Shabazz has captured reunion picnics, musicians, races, dog walks, and so much more in the beloved park he calls his “Oasis in Brooklyn.”
Learn MoreSecrets of the Whales plunges viewers into the epicenter of whale culture, to experience the extraordinary communication skills and social structures of five whale species: orcas, humpbacks, belugas, narwhals, and sperm whales.
Learn MoreAlice Austen House presents Gale Wisdom, botanical photograms.
Learn MoreUNSETTLED 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.
Learn MoreDialogue with Plants documents the Shipibo-Konibo Indigenous people’s use of traditional plant-based medicine, while revealing the threats to the knowledge and use of the diverse flora as elders and Indigenous leaders face the COVID-19 pandemic.
Learn MoreThe Four Elements from the Visual Thinking Collective showcases four bodies of work—the elements visually interpreted by: Nadia Aly (Water), selected by Lauren Steel; Oded Balilty (Earth), selected by Sarah Leen; realities:united (Air), selected by Shannon Simon; and Marcus Yam (Fire), selected by Elizabeth Krist.
Learn MoreClimate Archive by Suzette Bousema explores ancient ice cores from Antarctica and Greenland, as a visual representation and future prediction of climate change.
An underwater photo journey of the amazing marine wildlife at home in the waters of New York.
Fifty photographs representing the collaborative work of teen women photographers from five national and international partner organizations.
Claire Rosen offers a new perspective on tradition with portraits of creatures photographed against complementary backdrops with reproductions of historic wallpaper popular during the Victorian era.
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.
In this exhibition, Roger Fishman shows the raw power and exquisite, abstract beauty of water, through aerial photos and video from Greenland and Iceland, with the goal of engaging the public in a discussion on how each of us can transform ourselves, and the world we live in, for the betterment of all.
Learn MoreOur exhibition aims to highlight the importance of land existing for its own sake through a series of diptychs that pairs sweeping video of so-called useless stretches of wilderness with actors voicing first-hand accounts from the people speaking about the importance of these resources.
Via Baltic is a contemporary photography and film collaboration created by artists from Estonia and Mexico, and is inspired by The Baltic Way, when 2.5 million people held hands on 23 August 1989 in peaceful protest of the Soviet Union.
André Feliciano will present a new Photographic Greenhouse where nature becomes the photographer and we are free to pose without being judged.
Learn MoreClaire Rosen offers a new perspective on tradition with portraits of creatures photographed against complementary historic reproduction wallpaper popular during the Victorian Era.
Learn MoreThe TRANSFORMATION: Water as Art project’s intent is to inspire and motivate us to protect this most valuable resource for life, and to view it in a new light.
Learn MoreUNDER THE STARS encompasses explorations of the American West under the night sky, from moon-filled canyons to remote mountaintops devoid of light pollution.
Learn MoreWith Water/Without Water is a group exhibition that collectively tells the story of the importance to California of this vital but limited resource.
Learn MoreBlue 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.
In this project, gold is a metaphor for wealth and lust. However it also allows us to discuss the extinctions of species, tribes and ecosystems that disappear because of our madness for wealth and our desire to rule over everything. The new gold is asymbol of the disappearance of what I consider our true riches.
Learn MoreThrough 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.
Learn MoreThe UNEARTH project began in 2015 as a collaboration between six documentary photographers and the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) in order to provide a visual record of Myanmar’s resource sector.
Learn MorePhotographer Ami Vitale has recently turned her lens to documenting compelling wildlife stories and spent three years documenting these fascinating bears. “Rewilding Pandas” appeared in the August 2016 issue of National Geographic magazine.
Luceo’s 2016 Photoville exhibition explores the visual theme of designs of white presented by winter in far northeastern Montana. Located 300 miles from a major city, on the flat, windswept plains of one of the coldest and most geographically isolated areas of the lower 48, the Upper Missouri River Basin is defined by its relationship with the cold.
Learn MoreFlora & Fauna, presented by the photography website Feature Shoot, is a show about plants and animals curated by Feature Shoot’s 25K+ Instagram followers.
Learn MoreWhat interest me the most are intersection points of society and nature – says Kowalski – it is where interesting things happen: disorder in harmony, emergence of new forms.
Learn MoreOne 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.
Learn MoreThis project spotlights man’s cultivation of nature. It features gigantic outdoor monocultures in the United States, or under glass and plastic in the Netherlands and Spain.
Create cyanotypes on fabric and paper to capture the souls of medicinal herbs.
Learn MoreAcross 41 years of photographing in Prospect Park, Jamel Shabazz has captured reunion picnics, musicians, races, dog walks, and so much more in the beloved park he calls his “Oasis in Brooklyn.”
Learn MoreJoin photographers Anand Varma, Esther Horvath, and Max Aguilera-Hellweg in conversation with Senior Photo Editor Todd James as they discuss their work in scientific photography, and how they tackle each story’s unique visual challenges.
Learn MoreListen in as internationally recognized, award-winning National Geographic contributing photographer, Lynn Johnson and acclaimed photo editor Elizabeth Krist sit down for a discussion of the projects they have worked on together.
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