What does it mean to enter into collaboration in the photographic process? Join us to hear five women talk about their projects and practices that are rooted in working with others.
Presenters: Cinthya Santos Briones Jasmin Chang Gabriella Demczuk Hannah Price Karen Miranda-Rivadeneira
Location: St. Ann’s Warehouse
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Photoville Talks at St. Ann’s Warehouse are produced by United Photo Industries and supported in part by PhotoWings and the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation.
Cinthya Santos Briones, Jasmin Chang, Gabriella Demczuk, Hannah Price, and Karen Miranda Rivadeneira are five photographers who have often woven the vision and voices of others into their projects, by collaborating with those they photograph, working with archival materials, teaming up with other artists, and fundamentally engaging communities in telling their own stories.
Join us to learn more about how photographers can create collaboratively, and open up a solitary discipline to new ways of photographing.
Cinthya Santos Briones is an interdisciplinary artist, researcher, and educator of Nahua Indigenous heritage based in New York. Trained in Ethnohistory and Anthropology, she spent over a decade conducting research at Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH), focusing on Indigenous migration, codices, textiles, and traditional medicine. Her multidisciplinary practice engages participatory art and collective storytelling, weaving nonlinear narratives through photography, archival materials, writing, ethnography, drawing, collage, embroidery, and popular education. Her work centers community voices and fosters social engagement.
Cinthya holds an MFA in Creative Writing and Photography from Ithaca College, as well as a Certificate in Documentary Practice and Visual Journalism from the International Center of Photography (ICP). She currently serves as faculty in the Studio Arts Practice MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) and as Associate Director of Outreach and Partnerships at the Mexican Studies Institute. She has also been a guest artist at Columbia University and Rutgers University.
Her work has been supported by numerous fellowships, grants, and residencies, including the Magnum Foundation, En Foco, National Geographic Research and Exploration, We Women, City Artist Corps, Wave Hill House Winter Residency, the Mellon Artist Fellowship at the Hemispheric Institute of NYU, BRICLab Contemporary Art, Talk of the Town AIR at El Museo del Barrio, NYSCA, and the Indigo Arts Alliance Mentorship Residency, among others. She was also a finalist for the CPW Saltzman Prize and Emerging Photographer of the Year, New York (2026).
Her photography and writing have appeared in publications such as The New York Times, PDN, California Sunday Magazine, Vogue, Open Society Foundations, BuzzFeed, The Intercept, The New Yorker, and The Nation. As a writer, she has contributed to both academic and journalistic outlets, including NACLA, The Nation, and La Jornada.
Cinthya has exhibited her work in solo and group exhibitions at institutions including Sky Blue Gallery (Portland, OR), The Latinx Project at NYU, the International Center of Photography, El Museo del Barrio, the Museum of the City of New York, the Trout Museum (Wisconsin), the Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery at Stony Brook University, and MoMA PS1. She has also presented artist talks at institutions such as Columbia University, NYU, Boston College, CUNY, SUNY New Paltz, and Dutchess Community College.
She is co-author of The Indigenous Worldview and Its Representations in Textiles of the Nahua Community of Santa Ana Tzacuala, Hidalgo and co-creator of the documentary The Huichapan Codex.
In addition to her artistic practice, Cinthya has worked as a community organizer with pro-immigrant organizations in New York, addressing issues related to detention, education, and sanctuary. She has also volunteered to accompany migrants to immigration court and asylum proceedings, and serves as a guardian for unaccompanied migrant children.
Cinthya is a member of Colectiva Infancia, a collective of anthropologists engaged in ethnographic and visual research on childhood, migration, violence, urban studies, and epistemologies of the Global South.
Jasmin Chang is a Taiwanese-American artist and organizer who grew up in California and has called New York City home since 2011. Her practice explores photography, storytelling and art-making as portals to connect people. She spearheaded Photoville’s education and community initiatives for its first ten years. She is a member of Friends of Commodore Barry Park and the Fort Greene Park Conservancy.
Gabriella Demczuk is a Lebanese-American photographer, printmaker, and journalist based between Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, Maryland. Born in Sweden but raised in Luxembourg, Belgium, and later the United States, she studied fine arts and journalism at George Washington University, and photography at Parsons School of Art and Design in Paris.
Gabriella has been recognized by the White House News Photographers Association, American Photography, as a Presidential Scholar in the Arts, POLITICO Playbook’s Power List, and by Pictures of the Year International (POYi). Gabriella was named a finalist for the Inge Morath award from the Magnum Foundation, she was selected as an Emerging Talent by Getty Images Reportage, and as one of PDN’s 30 Emerging Photographers of 2018. She was recently selected as the British Journal of Photography’s Ones to Watch for 2019.
Raised in Fort Collins, Colorado, Hannah Price (b. 1986) is a photographic artist and filmmaker primarily interested in documenting relationships, race politics, and misperception. Price is internationally known for her project City of Brotherly Love (2009-2012), a series of photographs of the men who catcalled her on the streets of Philadelphia. In 2014, Price graduated from Yale School of Art’s MFA photography program, receiving the Richard Benson Prize for Excellence in Photography. Over the past nine years, Price’s photos have been displayed in several cities across the United States with a few residing in the permanent collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Price became a Magnum nominee member in 2020 and currently lives and works in Philadelphia, PA.
Karen Miranda-Rivadeneira is an Ecuadorian-American photographer currently living between New Mexico and New York. She graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 2005. During that time, she focused on performance art, and trance states. In pursuit of these interests, she has collaborated with indigenous communities and members of her family to create photo-based projects.
From the Mam to the Mandaeans, she has spent more than a decade living between the Amazon, the Andean highlands, and New York City.
Karen has been exhibited widely, in places like the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington, D.C., and the Musée du Quai Branly biennial, where she received an artist-in-residence fellowship in 2017. She has had solo shows in New York City, and her book Other Stories/Historia Bravas was published in 2018 by Autograph ABP, about her collaborative photographic project with her family.
Women Photograph is a nonprofit that launched in 2017 to elevate the voices of women and nonbinary visual journalists. The private database includes more than 1,400 independent documentary photographers based in 125+ countries and is available privately to any commissioning editor or organization. Women Photograph also operates an annual series of project grants, a year-long mentorship program, an annual skills-building workshop, and collects data on hiring and publishing statistics in the visual media industry. Our mission is to shift the makeup of the photojournalism community and ensure that our industry’s chief storytellers are as diverse as the communities they hope to represent.
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