“Los Inocentes (The Innocents)” is a documentary photoessay that focuses on the resiliency of children who live in urban communities in less-than-ideal circumstances, but who prevail and thrive beyond their environments in the South Bronx, Spanish Harlem (El Barrio), and the Lower East Side (Loisaida).
Learn More‘Chef’ not ‘Cook’: The Process to Plate is a photo series that tells the story of eight industry-leading African-American chefs across New York.
Learn MoreUnions are popular but facing decades of decline. We asked photographers to document this unique moment for the American worker.
Learn MoreA photo documentary unveiling the rich mosaic lives of American Muslims, challenging stereotypes and fostering empathy to promote inclusivity and understanding.
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 MoreThe Limitless Project introduces us to neurodiverse young people who help us understand, through the language of imagery, how they see the world.
Learn More“End of the Line” is a composite portrait of New York City through the lens of the 44 communities that lie at the last stops of NYC subway lines, from the Rockaways to the Bronx to Staten Island.
Learn MoreA dialogue between two independent, conceptually entwined projects, by a group of Dutch photographers and by American artist Kennedi Carter.
The Dutch photographers’ work features prominent models of color, in the style of Rembrandt and his contemporaries, to counter the erasure of non-white people throughout Dutch history. Similarly, Carter’s work brings focus to Blackness, belonging, wealth and power, through the visual style of European royalty combined with contemporary Black aesthetics.
Learn MoreCafecito: Building Community to Break Barriers celebrates the work of 36 photographers who were Cafecito initiative participants, showcasing their stories of belonging and human connection. Cafecito demonstrates how the power of community and creativity can collectively inspire change for the current state of the intersectional creative industry.
Learn MoreWITNESS explores the intersectional vantage point of the Black femme-identifying artist—inviting the viewer to bear witness to what they may not otherwise see on their own.
Learn MoreRhynna M. Santos’ mission is to use the art of photography to document Star Wars plus size and other diverse fans frequently overlooked from the view of mainstream fandom.
Learn MoreExplore Black femininity through the lens of four Black Women photographers. We invite you into a black woman’s home while you view photographs of the Our Black Experience.
Learn MoreSpeaking Portraits elevate our experiences, reveal hidden truths, and inform the viewer about what is most meaningful to us.
Learn MoreThe Crown & Glory Project celebrates underrepresented young creatives in NYC, challenging them to create DIY crowns from unconventional and found materials, as well as create collaborative photo portraits wearing their crowns that capture their individuality and goals as future creative leaders.
Learn MoreInspired by artist Wendy Ewald’s American Alphabets series, students at Harvest Collegiate High School explored language, identity, and culture through cyanotype self-portraits connected to a specific word.
Learn MoreThis work focuses on the people of Sharon Chischilly’s home community, the Navajo Nation.
Learn MoreInspiring stories about sex workers who are willing to serve persons with disabilities.
Learn MorePresented by The Alice Austen House with Photoville and NYC Parks
The Alice Austen House presents Staten Island photographer Jahtiek Long’s photography, showcasing the places and experiences that may be at times overlooked, but deserving of representation and the opportunity to be a part of the narrative of Staten Island, New York.
Learn MorePresented by Sharon Miller for Honeydark Studios and Photoville
The Creative Ambassadors Project is an impactful photo series showcasing underserved New York City youth in powerful editorial-style portraits based on their creative career aspirations.
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 MoreKennedi Carter (b. 1998) explores ideas of Blackness related to wealth, power, respect, and belonging in her new series of photographs. Carter dressed friends and acquaintances in historically-inspired costumes that represent wealth and power.
The trailblazing women photographed for this project are bringing change to the construction industry of New York. They are building the future of the construction trades.
Typecast is a satirical portrait series addressing cultural stereotypes perpetuated by the entertainment industry.
Learn MoreSelf Inverted tackles the personal tension commonly felt by gay Chinese individuals struggling with self-acceptance, and acceptance from their family and society.
Typecast is a satirical portrait series addressing cultural stereotypes perpetuated by the entertainment industry presented as a Photo Cube exhibition and day portrait session.
Learn More“IN/VISIBLE” is an attempt to increase visual literacy by highlighting photographs made by individuals from groups underrepresented in mass media.
Learn More“Hot Mamma” aims to create an experience where women from different age groups and backgrounds can “feel themselves” while they are being photographed.
Learn More“Her Take: (Re)Thinking Masculinity” is a continuation of the conversation begun by the seven women photographers of VII when they first met nearly a year ago, as the agency voted in six new female members. The exhibition is a reflection of their commitment, with the agency’s support, to help forward inclusive conversations about gender, power, and representation.
Learn MoreThe Department of Photography & Imaging at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, in collaboration with United Photo Industries and For Freedoms’ 50 State Initiative, presents “cit.i.zen.ship: reflections on rights by teen photographers” with photographs, collages, and videos by high school students from across the U.S. that speak directly to the current moment that students, educators, and artists alike are experiencing and responding to.
Learn More“Room” is a series of portraits, self-portraits and letters, exploring the passage from girlhood to womanhood.
Learn MoreThis story, which appeared in National Geographic’s “Gender Revolution” issue, was an opportunity to meet people from the United States, Jamaica, the Dominican Republic and Samoa, who had the courage to make themselves visible. Please consider their lives. Perhaps someday, courage will not be necessary to simply be one’s self.
Learn MoreA cutting-edge and inspiring group of artists share their perspectives to provoke thought and action, driven by their innovative catalogues of documentary photography and photojournalism.
Learn MoreCreative and innovative panelist navigate the complexities of identity, unravel historical narratives, and celebrate the multifaceted experiences of womanhood.
Learn MoreThe symposium keynote discussion featuring Dr. Deborah Willis and Joy Gregory as they explore the vital role of archiving, preserving, and exploring photography and visual culture within African American, Black British, and the broader African diaspora.
Learn MoreThe one-day symposium will include a series of panel discussions, featuring scholars, artists, curators and centered around archiving and elevating the voices of women and non-binary of photographers of African descent, as part of Photoville’s annual Festival in New York City.
Learn MoreFeaturing photographer Sharon Miller discussing his exhibition The Creative Ambassadors Project
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 MoreGain insight into how you can create compelling, realistic images taken from your own life and experiences.
Learn MoreICP Curator at Large Isolde Brielmaier leads a conversation on the connections between the past, present, and future of imagemaking.
Learn MoreChallenge the ideas and frequency of notions surrounding black masculinity in an intimate visual series by award-winning photojournalist and documentary photographer, Vanessa Charlot.
Learn MoreWhat does today’s Black Hollywood look like through the lens of a seasoned Black photographer?
Learn MorePhotographer and Educator Cheriss May shares her experiences, responsibility, and connection to telling the story of national reckoning on race and justice from the lens of a Black woman.
Learn MoreUsing Tyler Mitchell’s exhibition, I Can Make You Feel Good, at the International Center of Photography (ICP), as a springboard, photographers Quil Lemons and Arielle Bobb-Willis will share their work and have a conversation led by ICP’s curator-at-large, Isolde Brielmaier.
Learn MoreFeaturing: Ismail Ferdous, Wayne Lawrence, Ruddy Roye, Jennifer Pritheeva Samuel, Daniella Zalcman
Learn MoreJoin the conversation between Leica photographers, Miranda Barnes and Stella Johnson, as they discuss their experiences documenting and connecting with communities they themselves don’t belong to.
Learn MoreX-Posure intern photographers present their second photo project, “The Geometry of Death and Re-Birth”. Each photographer explores their diverse and intersecting identities as an act of self-representation and advocacy.
Learn MoreIn 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.
Learn MoreWith this panel discussion, we aim to provide the audience with a better understanding of how and why the lack of diverse voices in the media leads to “outsiders” being tasked with documenting communities other than their own.
Learn MoreVisionaries is excited to return to Photoville this year to present Hyphenated, featuring first and second generation American photographers who explore themes of identity, memory, home and belonging through their work.
Learn MoreSince the @everydayafrica feed launched on Instagram two years ago, the concept has grown into a global movement of photographers using daily-life imagery to fight stereotypes on a community, city, country, or continent level: from @everydaybronx to @everydayasia, from @everydaylatinamerica to @everydayiran, from @everydayusa to @everydayeasterneurope, and dozens more.
Learn More