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Exhibitions Tagged #Storytelling

Sunday Leagues: The Meadow in Motion

Travers Park
 archive : 2025

Sunday Leagues: The Meadow in Motion is a photographic project capturing the energy, passion, and community of soccer in Flushing Meadows Park, where working-class immigrants compete, reconnect with their roots, and find belonging in NYC.

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In This Together

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2025

In This Together brings us images of Eddie Adams Workshop alumni, exploring the many ways community evolves and how connection shapes our lives.

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Heritage in Focus

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2025

Heritage in Focus was launched in 2022 as an innovative fellowship offering emerging photographers the opportunity to document historic places and their stewards.

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Long Distance

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2025

Long Distance features three projects about travel, distance, and connection created by members of the SVA MPS Digital Photography community – a current student, an alum, and a faculty member.

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Mister Rogers, Is Your Neighbor Worth Loving?

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2025

Fred McFeely Rogers was an inspiring presence on public television in Pittsburgh, PA, for over 30 years. At the center of his message to children was this: you are valuable—each and every one of you—regardless of your age or height, your race or religion, your abilities or challenges.

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Boy Wonder

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2025

Boy Wonder invites viewers into a nostalgic exploration of boyhood through photography. With a focus on the unrestrained imagination, fearless energy, and creative spirit of childhood, the series celebrates the magic of make-believe, playful rebellion, and the joy of discovery. Through powerful visuals, it offers a tender reflection on resilience, innocence, and the wonder that defined our early years.

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The New Black West: Photographs from America’s Only Touring Black Rodeo

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2025

As long as there have been cowboys, there have been Black cowboys. The New Black West celebrates the modern Black cowboys of the Bill Pickett Invitational Rodeo and the community that comes together to witness their achievements year after year.

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We Belong: Making the Invisible visible!

The South Street Seaport
 archive : 2024

Lucia Bawot aims to shed light on the lives of Colombian women coffee farmers and pickers, challenging stereotypes and giving voice to those who have been silenced.

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L’Dor Vador

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2024

L’dor Vador (‘From Generation to Generation’) is a project which captures the coming-of-age experience of Jewish youth through the quintessentially Jewish-American ritual of sleep-away camp.

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American Muslim Experience

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2024

A photo documentary unveiling the rich mosaic lives of American Muslims, challenging stereotypes and fostering empathy to promote inclusivity and understanding.

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The Limitless Project

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2024

The Limitless Project introduces us to neurodiverse young people who help us understand, through the language of imagery, how they see the world.

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End of the Line

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2024

“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.

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Finding Home

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2024

Finding Home is a project about the reestablishment of the 273 students and staff of Afghanistan’s National Institute of Music in Portugal.

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Elsewhere

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2024

In the heart of the Australian Outback, a 12-hour drive west of Sydney and three hours from the nearest supermarket, a small remote community lives in underground caves to shield themselves from the harsh climate of the desert.

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Local Newsrooms

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2024

As the journalism industry shrinks, this project captures local newsrooms to engage communities in the search of and support for trusted local news while raising awareness for a national audience that may not realize what has already been lost, and what is at stake.

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1in6by2030

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2024

1in6by2030 is a multi-year, global visual storytelling project, involving photographers around the world. Launched in 2023 by Ed Kashi, Ilvy Njiokiktjien and Sara Terry, all contributing photographers to the VII Foundation, 1in6by2030 documents an unprecedented era in the history of humankind: by the year 2030, 1 in 6 people in the world will be over the age of 60.

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Through Our Eyes: A Collective Portrait of Caracas

Travers Park
 archive : 2023

Through Our Eyes uses formal collaborative portraits and single documentary images made by young women participants of Project MiRA to tell the story of resilience, joy, and struggle in the barrios of Caracas, Venezuela – a country that has been hit by a years-long crisis.

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New Photography 2023

The Museum of Modern Art
 archive : 2023

New Photography 2023 explores the photographic work of seven artists, all at various stages in their careers, who are united by their critical use of photographic forms and their ties to the artistic scene in the port city of Lagos (Èkó), Nigeria.

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As Free As A Bird

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2023

As Free As A Bird is an ostensibly casual portrait of an invisible, closed community of mobile home dwellers in the Netherlands. A world in itself, containing free spirits not constrained by employment agreements or civic duties, with their own unwritten rules, taste and culture.

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Ruatoki

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
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This decade-long documentary photographic project follows the lives of Ngāi Tūhoe man John Teepa and his family as they live on traditional indigenous land in the remote mountains of Aotearoa New Zealand.

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We Don’t Talk

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2023

Marjolein Busstra followed the lives of minors entangled in complex networks of sexual violence. Can the old, unprocessed memory be overwritten and processed by going back to to the locations where they felt extremely unsafe, by the collaborative act of photographing?

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Lisette

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2023

Inspiring stories about sex workers who are willing to serve persons with disabilities.

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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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Everything in Between: A Spectrum of Emerging Visions

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2022

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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The Everyday Projects 2021 Grant Winners & Finalists

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 1
 archive : 2022

Presented by The Everyday Projects and Photoville

A sampling of images from the 2021 winners and finalists of the inaugural Everyday Projects Grant, which focuses on early-career photographers working in their own communities.

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Mixed Identity: Hybrid Portraits

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 2
 archive : 2022

Presented by Riverdale Avenue Middle School and Photoville, in partnership with PhotoWings

Recipient of the 2022 Photoville & Photowings Educator Exhibition Grant

Expand students’ creativity.

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The Power Of Telling Your Own Story

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Fulton Ferry Landing
 archive : 2020

The Standing Strong Project is an ongoing, multi-media, and community-based project that aims to uplift Indigenous peoples in reclaiming their narrative by creating a safe space to make their own image.

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Duggal Presents its Annual Photo Contest: Capture The Moment

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 3
 archive : 2020

Duggal Visual Solutions has been at the forefront of innovation in visual communication and multimedia solutions for more than half a century, partnering with clientele from the independent photographer to the world’s most recognized museums and galleries. Our annual Capture the Moment Photo Contest is held in honor of our late visionary founder, Baldev Duggal.

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Subject, Object, Creator

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2018

“Subject, Object, Creator” explores how the photographer’s gaze, shaped through gender, experience and character, molds broader visual representations surrounding identity.

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Foreseen: New narratives from the African Photojournalism Database

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2018

This exhibition showcases the work of African visual storytellers selected from the African Photojournalism Database (APJD). At the core of the APJD is the mission to celebrate refreshing and diverse stories told by photographers often overlooked by the global media industry—stories that are not widely seen in the current, exclusive media landscape.

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Summer Come Back

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2017

“Summer Come Back” is an exhibition comprised of work by select Wonderful Machine member photographers from around the globe. Covering a range of commercial specialties, the work on display aims to savor the last moments of summer — hanging on to the heat and humidity, and celebrating the little things in life.

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Insider/Outsider

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2017

Who has the right to tell a story? Are there limitations on objectivity as an insider, or sensitivity as an outsider? Presented as two parallel exhibitions, “Insider/Outsider” seeks to start a conversation about how photographers tell stories, how they define their own relationships to the people and issues they cover, and how their lives impact the stories they tell.

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Strength | Fortitude | Spirit

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2016

Sports are woven into life and culture on every level, from professional to high school to community leagues proving to be a common human thread steeped in tradition. The imagery of a baseball diamond, whether it’s perfectly manicured or a neighborhood sandlot conjures personal memories we can instantly relate to. Here you will see unique stories told in a photo narrative style that bring to life people and places that sports fans do not always get to see or go.

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Narratively: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Stories

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
 archive : 2014

An epidemic of suicide among Indian farmers. Decades on the water with the last fishermen of Long Island. An ex-con who breaks back into his old prison cell. Narratively offers an in-depth look at humanity in all its gritty, edgy, complicated beauty. Photo courtesy of Doug Kuntz.

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Storytelling @ MediaStorm

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
 archive : 2014

MediaStorm is an award-winning film production and interactive design firm whose work gives voice and meaning to the most pressing issues of our time.

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Stories from Maine

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
 archive : 2014

We are proud to have participated in Photoville since its inaugural year! Salt is known for great storytelling and Maine is one of the most unique New England states. Enjoy the great storytelling of Salt documentarians and let us introduce you to the people of and parts of Maine that we find most intriguing.

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Events and Sessions Tagged #Storytelling

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