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Exhibitions Tagged #Water

Far Apart – Revelation and Refuge in an Urban Green Space

Alice Austen House
 archive

“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.

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Brady’s Pond

Alice Austen House
 archive

“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.

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New York Waterfront Diary

Alice Austen House
 archive

I discovered the waterfront in my early twenties when I moved to Brooklyn. At the time, much of it was abandoned and falling apart. Knowing it would vanish, I felt an urge, almost a duty, to document it.

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Tributaries

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2023

Tributaries 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.

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Water is a Women’s Issue

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2019

Fifty photographs representing the collaborative work of teen women photographers from five national and international partner organizations.

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Waterkeeper Warriors

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2019

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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TRANSFORMATION: Water as Art

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2019

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.

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With Water, Without Water

Annenberg Space for Photography
 archive : Photoville LA

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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TRANSFORMATION: Water as Art

Annenberg Space for Photography
 archive : Photoville LA

The 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.

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A Possible River

Annenberg Space for Photography
 archive : Photoville LA

Following the Los Angeles River from its origin to the sea, A Possible River is a meditation on Southern California’s most poignant symbol of human efforts to dominate the natural environment in the pursuit of development.

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The Oldest Colony

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2018

“The Oldest Colony” is a meditation on the Puerto Rican identity as a product of the island’s political relationship with the United States as an unincorporated territory, and now as it morphs with the economic crisis and hurricane Maria’s aftermath.

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Water Stories: A Photographic Exhibition

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2016

In Water Stories, Mustafah Abdulaziz presents powerful images, from across four continents, documenting the global water crisis. The installation will feature 70 large-scale photographs on the East River waterfront, presented in massive light boxes visible from Manhattan.

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Where Will We Go: The Human Consequences of Rising Sea Levels

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2016

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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A Century on the Brooklyn Waterfront

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2015

The NYC Municipal Archives invites you to explore a hundred-year history of the Brooklyn waterfront through photographs dating from 1870 to 1974.

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Submerged

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2015

Submerged is a video installation that envisions our world from the constantly shifting perspective of just below the rippling surface of a quiet pond.

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Traces: Navigating the Frontline of Climate Change

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
 archive : 2014

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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Drawn to Water: NYC H2O

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
 archive : 2013

To celebrate the success of Drawn To Water (a floating photographic exhibition) the East River Ferry invited photographers to share their favorite photos that illustrates the relationship between NYC and H2O.

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River Gambia: A 1044km African Odyssey

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
 archive : 2013

When photographer Jason Florio got word that plans were afoot to create a massive hydro-electric dam on the River Gambia – one of Africa’s last free-flowing major rivers – he knew he wanted to attempt to follow the river’s course, before the natural flow was choked. Conservationists fear the dam will have massive environmental impact on many communities, as well as wildlife that rely on the natural flow and seasonal rise and fall of the water.

 

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Events and Sessions Tagged #Water

Sep 142018

From Portrait to Pier: Capturing the Essence of the Sea

Break away from traditional landscapes, and learn how to create rich seascapes while capturing movement of silky waves with EJ Camp.

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