In 2026, Photoville and PhotoWings are embarking on a collaborative, intergenerational photography project. Bridging Generations is a year-long initiative in two locations—New York City and the Bay Area—that centers on intergenerational exchange, oral history, community storytelling, and creative collaboration.
At an organized Intergenerational Learning Day at Henry Street Settlement on the Lower East Side, the initiative brought together high school students and local older adults who participated in a two-way learning model. Each participant brought a personal photograph and a story to share with their partner. Through sharing lived experiences, oral history interviews, and a collaborative art project creating cyanotype images, participants fostered new, intergenerational connections. Participants had their portraits taken together and reflected upon their experiences both in group exercises and through video recordings.
The next Intergenerational Learning Day will take place in the Bay Area this fall. In addition to the photo exhibit, a companion video featuring conversations between students and older adults will be shared online. Bridging Generations aims to create empathy, trust, and mutual respect, and hopes it inspires others to seek intergenerational sharing in their own communities.
Artist Bios
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Lanna Apisukh
Lanna Apisukh is a portrait and documentary photographer based in New York City. With a background in skateboarding and an extensive athletic career as a former elite gymnast, she is drawn to photographing dynamic individuals, communities and subcultures. Her work explores people and their relationship to place, culture and identity through bold and colorful storytelling.
Lanna is a Bachelor of Arts graduate of the University of Washington and has expanded on her photography education at the Fashion Institute of Technology. Her subjects span from TV personalities, skateboarders and celebrity chefs to artists, everyday New Yorkers and their surroundings.
As a Thai-American and the daughter of immigrant parents and former restaurant owners and cooks, Lanna had also developed a deep appreciation for food at a young age and its connection to family and culture which can be seen in her profiles with restaurants.
Lanna is a member of Diversify Photo and became a FUJIFILM ambassador in 2020. She is a frequent contributor at The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, New York Magazine and The New Yorker. In addition to her photography work, she has provided mentorships and creative education to her Brooklyn community through Contact Photo, Seeing Collective and The Bridge program.
Organizations
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Photoville
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.
For more information about Photoville visit, www.photoville.com
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PhotoWings
PhotoWings believes that photography has the power to influence the world. As such, we invest in strategic collaborations and programs that help make photography better understood, created, utilized, seen and saved. We also have a rich archive with hundreds of hours of original interviews and partner presentations from both within and outside the photo world, as well as curricula, tool kits, resources and community activities. We believe that meaningful engagement with photography can foster deep thinking, communication and help people better understand and navigate the world.
PhotoWings has been a proud partner of the Eddie Adams Workshop since 2015, and of Catchlight and Photoville since 2017. -
Henry Street Settlement
Henry Street Settlements Henry Street Settlement’s mission is to open doors of opportunity for Lower East Side residents and other New Yorkers through social services, arts, and health care programs. The organization is distinguished by its commitment to listening to and learning from our neighbors—and then acting to meet the most pressing needs of our community.
Bridging Generations: An Intergenerational Learning and Storytelling Project
Featuring: Lanna Apisukh
Locations
ON VIEW AT: #4-5
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Brooklyn, NY 11201
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The views and opinions expressed in this exhibit are those of the exhibition artists and partners and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of Photoville or any other participants and partners of the Photoville Festival.
