Through live projections and music, photojournalist Tamir Kalifa weaves his images with his original songs, tracing stories of migration, survival, loss, and hope. WITNESS is a powerful multimedia performance that invites audiences into the intimate moments behind the headlines.
Speakers: Tamir Kalifa
Location: Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
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Through live projections and music, photojournalist Tamir Kalifa weaves his images with his original songs, tracing stories of migration, survival, loss, and hope. WITNESS is a powerful multimedia performance that invites audiences into the intimate moments behind the headlines.
Tamir Kalifa is a photojournalist currently based between Berlin, Germany, and Austin, Texas. He is committed to work focused on human rights and the lasting effects of gun violence as well as stories at the intersection of political and environmental issues. He believes compassionate visual storytelling can raise questions that lead to a better understanding of ourselves and one another. Tamir is a winner of the American Mosaic Journalism Prize and is a frequent contributor to The New York Times, The Washington Post, Texas Monthly and others. He is also a multi-instrumentalist and wrote, recorded, and performed original music as a member of Mother Falcon, an Austin, Texas-based orchestral indie-rock ensemble.
The Chris Hondros Fund was established to honor two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and Getty Images photojournalist Chris Hondros, killed on April 20, 2011 while on assignment in Misurata, Libya. CHF honors Hondros’s legacy by highlighting the ways in which photojournalism brings to light shared human experiences which might otherwise go unreported or unnoticed. As part of the fund’s Education and Awareness program, we support photography and visual education for youth, photographers, and nonprofits.
Founded in 2011 in Brooklyn, NY, Photoville was built on the principles of addressing cultural equity and inclusion, which we are always striving for, by ensuring that the artists we exhibit are diverse in gender, class, and race.
In pursuit of its mission, Photoville produces an annual, city-wide open air photography festival in New York City, a wide range of free educational community initiatives, and a nationwide program of public art exhibitions.
By activating public spaces, amplifying visual storytellers, and creating unique and highly innovative exhibition and programming environments, we join the cause of nurturing a new lens of representation.
Through creative partnerships with festivals, city agencies, and other nonprofit organizations, Photoville offers visual storytellers, educators, and students financial support, mentorship, and promotional & production resources, on a range of exhibition opportunities.
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