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Roy Baizan is a Mexican documentary photographer and arts educator whose work focuses on themes of community, environment, and identity. With over a decade of experience, Baizan has dedicated their career to empowering New York City youth through visual storytelling and community engagement. They have made impactful contributions as an educator and mentor with Bronx-based organizations such as The Bronx Documentary Center and The POINT, and the International Center of Photography (New York, New York), fostering opportunities and driving social change. In 2018, Baizan graduated from ICP’s Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism program supported by scholarships from The Wall Street Journal and ICP Board of Directors. Their photography has been featured in prominent publications, including The New York Times and Rolling Stone. Baizan’s achievements include the 2021 En Foco Photography Fellowship (Bronx, New York) and Magnum Foundation’s Photography and Social Justice Fellowship (New York, New York). In 2023, they were featured in the Museum of the City of New York’s (New York, New York) New York Now: Home photography triennial.
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Hira Hassan‘s photography centers on the lives of those who are often overlooked and misrepresented. Through her lens, she strives to capture both the beauty and reality of life in the Bronx, including the struggles and the relentless sense of community felt there. She is dedicated to documenting ongoing grassroots activism in its many forms. Alongside this, her work highlights joyful moments and aims to preserve history with care. Her vision is to showcase the determination of individuals and communities in the Bronx to fight for positive change, despite systemic barriers, while using photography as a tool to connect with people.
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Shammara McKay is a New York City photographer with a passion for capturing the beauty of everyday life. She first picked up a camera in 2011, but it wasn’t until a trip to Barbados 6 years later that her love for documenting spontaneous observations on the street was sparked. Ever since then, Shammara has been focused on immortalizing candid, fleeting moments that might otherwise go unnoticed.
Shammara’s work has been exhibited at Sarah Gormley Gallery, Women Street Photographers and published within multiple magazines.
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Abigail Montes is a documentary photographer and educator proudly from the South Bronx. She holds an AAS from LaGuardia Community College, a BFA from Saint John’s University, and a Certificate of Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism from the International Center of Photography (ICP).
Since 2013, Montes has dedicated herself to youth-centered initiatives utilizing the camera as a tool for change. Most notably she served as Co-Coordinator of ICP at THE POINT (2019-2025), facilitating free photography courses in the South Bronx, teaching the fundamentals of photography with social justice, self-esteem, community, and collaboration as thematic anchors.
In 2024, Montes joined the Seis Del Sur photo collective, documenting the struggles and resilience within the Puerto Rican diaspora of the South Bronx and striving to inspire the next generation of visual storytellers.
Montes will graduate with an MFA in Photography from the Yale School of Art in 2027.
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Emily Sujay Sanchez, is a Dominican-American photographer whose work centers on intimate visual storytelling. Through her lens, she captures emotionally resonant, often unfiltered moments. Sanchez’s practice is deeply influenced by her connection to the communities she photographs, often blurring the boundaries between observer and participant. Her work serves as both visual documentation and social commentary, encouraging reflection on issues of belonging, inequality, and shared humanity.
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Sofie Vasquez is an Ecuadorian artist from The Bronx, New York. Practicing as a documentarian, she creates long term bodies of work that resonate with the values of preserving specific histories as well as recording new chapters of them. She works primarily as a photographer and experiments with graphic design, filmmaking, alternative process, and writing; all to aid her projects in the way that can best support them.
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Brooklyn-born street and documentary photographer Michael Young, now living in the Bronx with his wife, Kenya, is passionate about light and shadow. His powerful images have appeared in The New York Times, Black and White Magazine, and “South Bronx Rising” (Third Edition). He has exhibited at notable venues such as The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba, The Bronx Documentary Center, and Photoville. In addition to his work as an educator, Michael serves as a curator and contributor for the Everyday Black America Instagram account.
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Jan Chrisann Edward is a New York City–based photographer originally from the Caribbean. Her practice explores themes of family, faith, and identity through the lens of personal and collective memory. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum at FIT, Russell Sage College, and AM:PM Gallery, among other spaces, and has been awarded by Fotografiska. She earned her BFA in Photography and Related Media from the Fashion Institute of Technology in May 2026.
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Chris Cook (b. 1992) is an artist from Brooklyn whose work focuses on the topics people face in the world today. Skilled in photography, Cook has documented significant events, including the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020. His monograph, “Black Lives Matter” (2022), is part of collections at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian, The British Library, and Yale University. Chris Cook’s works have been exhibited at Welancora Gallery and Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba. Cook has participated in artist residencies at the Saltonstall Foundation (2021) and received the AIM Fellowship at the Bronx Museum (2020). His work has been featured in the Washington Post and a National Gallery of Art video documentary.
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Saskia Kahn (b. New York, NY) is a photographer and educator interested in the impact our physical surroundings have on identity. She creates street portraits and works with experimental photographic printmaking. NYC Parks exhibited her portraits as an outdoor installation of seawater-damaged portraits, anticipating future climate disasters. In 2025, she was awarded a Rubys Artist Grant to support “I can smell the water,” a photobook project influenced by her family’s history of displacement from the Baltic Sea to the shores of Brooklyn. Her photography project “Skatepark Baltimore” was awarded Best Photography Thesis in the 2022 Global Design Graduate Show. She has led free photography workshops in Baltimore, MD; Hudson, NY; and Yaoundé, Cameroon, using collaborative tools like photovoice to invite participation from the people she photographs. Her photographs have appeared in The New York Times, The Brooklyn Rail, and BmoreArt. Kahn lives in Baltimore, MD, and teaches photography at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
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Based in Brooklyn, New York, Valery Rizzo is a commercial and editorial portrait, food and lifestyle photographer, with a special interest in urban agriculture. Her work appears across the globe. Valery is co-editor and principle photographer for her first book, Urban Farmers, published by gestalten. Wonderland. Brooklyn 2007 – 2023 recently published by Kehrer Verlag, marks Rizzo’s second photobook and first monograph, documenting Brooklyn during a time of rapid transformation. Select clients include, T The New York Times Style Magazine, D La Repubblica, Der Spiegel, Harper’s Magazine, Forbes,, The New Yorker, Dwell, Expedia, Google, Roadbook, Bloomberg Pursuits, BACSAC Paris, Homes & Gardens, Gestalten Books, Télérama, and many others.
Her photographs have been exhibited at The Museum of the City of New York, MTA Arts for Transit, Photoville, The powerHouse Arena, Soho Photo, FotoDC, United Photo Industries, The Somerville Toy Camera Festival, Rayko Photo Center, Umbrella Arts, and Trieste Photo Festival. Her work is part of the Permanent Collection of the Museum of the City of New York and the Brooklyn Navy Yard Archives.
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Tamar Shemesh is a visual storyteller and international development practitioner whose work is grounded in long-term, close engagement with communities. A graduate of the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York, she also holds a B.A. in Sociology and Anthropology from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and an M.A. in Sustainable Development from the University of Padova. Informed by anthropological research and participatory methodologies, her documentary work explores identity, femininity, and cultural practice within religious contexts. Shemesh is a member of Diversify Photo, an NPPA mentee, and an Eddie Adams Workshop alumna. Her work has appeared in TIME, DIE ZEIT, ELLE Magazine, and Ha’aretz, among others.
Photo credit: Danielle Amy
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Adreinne Waheed is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, NY, whose work is a testament to the beauty, brilliance, and resilience of Black people across the diaspora, inviting viewers to engage with themes of identity and cultural heritage.
Ms. Waheed’s career spans over two decades as an accomplished photo editor for publications including Vibe, Essence, and TimeInc Books. Her images have been featured in major outlets such as The New York Times, National Geographic, British Vogue, Cosmopolitan, i-D, and Photo District News.
The Waheed Photo Archive, established in 2010, is a comprehensive collection of found photographs documenting African American life from the Civil War era to the 1990s. The archive was acquired by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) in 2015.
Her creative journey includes accolades such as the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts SIP Fellowship (2019) and the Svane Family Foundation ARK Commission (2020/21). Her self-published coffee table book, Black Joy and Resistance (2018), received critical acclaim.
Her first solo museum exhibition, The Audacity to Thrive, opened February 2, 2024, at the Charles H. Wright Museum in Detroit and ran through October 27, 2024, offering a profound exploration of Black joy and perseverance.
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Harvey Wang has published six books of photography including Harvey Wang’s New York (1990), From Darkroom to Daylight (2015) and with co-author David Isay, Flophouse: Life on the Bowery (2000) He has exhibited widely at museums, including MoMA, the Smithsonian, the New-York Historical Society, and the Museum of the City of New York. In addition to his portrait photography, he has exhibited work from his life in New York City, particularly in the East Village and Brooklyn in the 1970s and 1980s Harvey Wang’s New York was named one of the “Ten Best Books about New York City” by The Guardian newspaper.
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Photographer originally from Belarus, now based in New York, working between reality and imagination through experimental use of materials. Their images sit between the tangible and the abstract, shaped by curiosity, intuition, and constant change.
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Souad Barry is an NYC based photographer who aims to authentically portray the people and places of the world as seen through her lens. Originally from the DMV area, but having spent most of her lifetime in Houston, Texas, she stays on the move, documenting the many faces of the world. From lifestyle portraits, to vast landscapes, telling stories through her photographs is her passion and is the cornerstone of what drives her vision and photography.
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Andrew Kung is a photographer living and working in New York. His work often centers on contested ideas of place, identity, and belonging. From subverting the male gaze to exploring the absences and omissions in Asian American history, he often draws upon personal experiences to present a reimagined cultural citizenship.
Andrew has previously been awarded and exhibited by Light Work, NYSCA/NYFA, Houston Center of Photography, LensCulture, Blue Sky Gallery, Photolucida, En Foco, PhotoVogue, British Journal of Photography, and WePresent.
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Igor Martiniouk is a Ukrainian-American photographer from New York. He participated in the Eddie Adams Workshop and graduated from the Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism Program at the International Center for Photography (ICP) in 2025. At ICP, he captured the resilience of Ukrainian youth in his long-term project, DIA/spora. DIA/spora was featured in the ICP student exhibition “Look Up.” Before this, Igor received a BA in History at Vassar College, where he focused on conflict, colonization, and media production. In addition to his own photography work, Igor curated and opened three exhibits, “Ukraine Before and After February 24th,” “Glory to the Heroes,” and “Unbreakable,” where he collaborated with award-winning photographers such as Oksana Parafeniuk, Nicole Tung, and Andriy Dubchak to bring awareness to the ongoing Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine. During his studies, Igor documented student life for his school’s communications department and served as the photo editor at the student-run paper, the Miscellany News.
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I’m a self taught photographer from Harlem, New York. I speak English, Spanish, and French, three different rhythms chasing the same hunger.
My work drifts toward subcultures and the people who define themselves on their own terms. I’m interested in trust, and in the quiet intimacy that appears when performance fades and something honest takes its place.
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Willie Velazquez (b. 1987) is a photographer based in Queens, New York. His work focuses on candid photography and public life across the city.
His images are driven by observation and timing, often highlighting subtle interactions, gestures, and moments that unfold in fast-moving environments. His approach is direct and intuitive, prioritizing authenticity over staging.
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Elias Williams is a photographer, producer and perfumer born, raised and working in New York City. Through long-term portrait-based projects he celebrates historically underrepresented communities referencing lived experiences through the nuances of music, pride, race and resilience. When not photographing, he makes music and fragrance oils under the name Chromatiq Blq.
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Owise Abuzaid is an Egyptian photographer and filmmaker based in New York. He started photographing in 2011, documenting the Arab Spring in Cairo, which shaped his interest in documentary making. His recent work often explores identity and culture. He predominantly focuses on the Muslim Arab community as it resonates most with him.
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Anthony Artis is a New York–based photographer whose work is rooted in care, presence, and a deep commitment to community. He uses photography to preserve, honor, and celebrate the richness of the Black diaspora, centering everyday moments with intention, dignity, and warmth.
Working across portraiture and documentary photography, Artis captures intimate and communal experiences, moments of stillness, connection, and cultural expression that might otherwise go unseen. His images carry a quiet reverence, grounded in the belief that Black life, in all its forms, deserves to be held with honesty and care.
For Artis, photography is both a gift and a responsibility. It is a practice of gratitude, an offering back to God, to his community, and to the generations whose stories shape the present. His work has been exhibited and presented through cultural institutions and publications.
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Janice Chung is a Korean American photographer from Queens, New York City. Her work examines nostalgia, home, and cultural memory within Korean American communities. Through intimate documentary, she explores how everyday spaces, family histories, and shifting landscapes shape diasporic identity. Her photography has appeared in Vogue, New York Magazine, The New York Times, Hyperallergic, and DAMN° Magazine.
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Maureen Drennan is a photographer born and based in New York City. She has been honored to have work included in exhibitions at the Museum of the City of New York, National Portrait Gallery, Tacoma Art Museum, Art Museum of South Texas, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Dresden Technische Sammlungen, Dorsky Museum, Ackland Museum of Art, Municipal Art Society of New York, Aperture, Mrs. Gallery, Transmitter Gallery, Field Projects, Partners and Son, Center for Photography at Woodstock, and Houston Center for Photography. Her images have been featured in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The New York Times, California Sunday Magazine, Photograph Magazine, Huffington Post, Art 21 Magazine, UK Telegraph, Refinery 29, Narratively, and the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. She teaches photography at LaGuardia Community College in Queens, New York.
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Salvador Espinoza is a photographer born and raised in Long Island City, New York. His work has won awards from The Queens Council on the Arts as well as The New York City Council and has been published in the New York Times, NPR, BBC News, Rolling Stone and Mass Appeal.
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Using an old wooden 4×5 camera and B&W films, I have been taking environmental portraits of people in Jackson Heights and other part of NY and in Japan and some other places since 1995.
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Marco Postigo Storel is a Spanish-Brazilian photographer and photo editor currently working at CNN. His interests are in producing stories related to social and international issues, and has bylines at The New York Times, NPR, El País, and The Associated Press.
In 2024, Marco earned his Master of Science degree at Columbia University – Graduate School of Journalism, as a John Chancellor Scholar, where he worked on stories about the pro-Palestine university encampments, and the New York City migrant influx. Later in the year he assisted Professor and Documentary Photographer Nina Berman teaching a class focused on Photojournalism skills for students in the Master of Arts program.
In 2021, he was happy to be offered a temporary position at NPR as a visuals editor, where he worked with the international desk on topics like the Taliban take over and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
That same year, Marco earned a degree in International Photojournalism at the University of Missouri. During those years, he worked as a staff photographer and photo editor for the Columbia Missourian on stories about the COVID-19 pandemic, the Black Lives Matter protests, and the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election.
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Lila Barth (b. 1994) is a photographer based in New York City. A graduate of the Fashion Institute of Technology, she has pursued stories that have appeared in publications including The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post. Her work has been exhibited internationally, from Austria to the American Midwest, as well as in New Orleans and Brooklyn. She is the recipient of the New York Times Award at the Eddie Adams Workshop XXXIII.
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Irma Bohórquez-Geisler is a photographer, biologist, professor, traditional craftsperson, and cultural leader for Mexican-Americans on Staten Island. She immigrated to New York from Mexico City in 1991. She holds a doctorate in ecological entomology from Oxford University. She is the founder, artistic and program director of the annual Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) festival. Her photographs were featured in the New York Times in 2016, the 12th Julia Annual Margaret Cameron Award in Barcelona, and the first and second Alice Austen Triennial in 2019. She was awarded the Gabriela Mistral, Julia de Burgos, Frida Kahlo Award in 2017 as a photographer and cultural leader who preserves and promotes Mexican values and cultural heritage for younger generations of Mexican-Americans in New York. In 2011, New York City Councilwoman Debi Rose conferred on Bohórquez-Geisler the Staten Island Women Who Preserve History Award. Her photographs have been exhibited at numerous contemporary art galleries and museums. She has been awarded many grants for her photography, and for presenting Mexican traditions in the community, as well as many museums and schools.
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Olga Ginzburg is a Belarusian-American photographer based in New York City. With an interest in open-ended narrative and its potential for subtle and layered meaning, her work explores notions of place, identity, home, community, and biculturalism. A graduate of the City College of New York, her work has twice been included in the Triennial at the Alice Austen House Museum (2019 and 2023). An editorial photographer, her clients include The New York Times, The Financial Times, Bloomberg, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, among others.
Olga’s work has been featured on ABC’s Eyewitness News 7, exhibited in Photoville, and in 2025 was part of Dear New York, a monumental photo installation by Humans of NY in Grand Central Terminal. Currently, a selection of her photographs can be seen at the Staten Island Museum’s Triennial exhibition, Here You Are. She is working on her first documentary film— an extension of the intimate work she has been making on Staten Island since 2016.
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Jean Richard Marques (b. 1995) is a visual artist, educator, and photographer based in Staten Island, NY. Their work explores themes of family, home, and memory using a myriad of analog photographic techniques and alternative processes. In 2019 they earned their MFA degree in Photography and Related Media from Rochester Institute of Technology. Jean has been exhibiting their work since 2016, with exhibitions in Miami, Fl, Rochester NY, New York City, and Portland, OR. Notable recent exhibitions include: Photoville NYC Photo Festival in 2023 on Staten Island, and Triennial #4 Resilient Communities at the Alice Austen House and Museum (AAH) in 2026 (Exhibition is on view until May 26th). In March of 2025, Jean was the Photographer in Residence for WORTHLESS STUDIOS, where they produced their most recent body of work No Exit as well as taught film photography workshops to local youth, in partnership with the AAH.
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Paul Moakley is a documentary photographer and filmmaker raised on the South Shore of Staten Island, New York. He has worked professionally as a journalist and filmmaker for over two decades. His earlier work centered on long-term documentary projects focused on his family and a private school, exploring themes of subjectivity, identity, and the politics of one’s lived experience. Rooted in close observation, long durations, and accumulation, his practice reflects a sustained interest in how environments shape individual and collective narratives. In recent projects, Moakley has expanded this approach into public spaces, continuing to examine connection and community through collaborative and participatory processes.
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Christine Osinski‘s work has been included in exhibitions at The Brooklyn Museum; The National Portrait Gallery, DC; The Alice Austen House Museum; New Britain Museum of American Art; Sasha Wolf Gallery; Clamp Art; Joseph Bellows Gallery; Blue Sky Gallery; Paris Photo and AIPAD, NYC. Photographs and reviews of her work have appeared in : The New York Times; The New Yorker; The New York Times Sunday Magazine; BBC News; The Daily Telegraph; The Guardian; The Wall Street Journal; vogue.com; Slate; American Photo; Boston Glove; Philadelphia Magazine and others.
Her book SUMMER DAYS STATEN ISLAND was short-listed for the Paris Photo/ Aperture Foundation First Book Award.
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Nina Perricone is a photographer, curator, and advisory board member to the International Photographic Council. She is the current Curatorial director of Blush Magazine at FIT. Her photographic work has been featured at Shrishti Institute of Art in Bengaluru for their Being Hyper Human exhibition, the 2025 Global Citizen Festival as a part of their Young Artist Collective, Adidas’ Fashion Week event, Re:Fresh, the Port Authority Bus Terminal, ASmith Gallery, and in two recent exhibitions at the Museum at FIT and Art and Design Gallery. She will receive her BFA in Photography and Related Media from The Fashion Institute of Technology in Spring 2026.
