Jasmine Abdelkarim, 11th Grade, High School of Telecommunication Arts and Technology
Porsha Adoghe, 11th Grade, Western High School
Ari Birnbaum, 10th Grade, High School for Math, Science, and Engineering at CCNY
Melissa Chen, 11th Grade, Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts
Queena Chen, 11th Grade, Fort Hamilton High School
Kalee Cheung, 11th Grade, High School of Art and Design
Naidelyn Contreras, 10th Grade, East Side Community High School
Jeslyn Escano, 10th Grade, St. Jean Baptiste High School
Tiareth Lopez-Cruz, 10th Grade, Somerville High School
Dillion Nelson, 11th Grade, High School of Art and Design
Kenzie Steinberg, 11th Grade, Hastings High School
Lauren Yu, 10th Grade, Bergen County Academies
“All of our projects are different. They range from one place or idea to another and aren’t really ‘this’ or ‘that.’ Like in a color spectrum, you aren’t certain when the colors blend from one to another.” – Naidelyn Contreras, 10th Grade
These projects by NYU Tisch Future Imagemakers explore people and places, familiar and strange, in New York City and beyond. Twelve emerging photographers used their cameras to delve into the depths of the mind and imagination, and to carefully observe and comment on relationships — between humans and the environment. Their lenses focused on family, friends, dreams, nature, fashion, immigration, mental health, and more. While each Imagemaker’s artistic approach is unique, all of these projects are bound by a sense of curiosity and a willingness to embrace ambiguity, connection, and discovery. Students come from different high schools — and some from different states — but worked together in this program to build a collective, creative response to their worlds.
Future Imagemakers at NYU Tisch Photography & Imaging is a free digital program for New York City area high school students offered in the Department of Photography and Imaging (DPI) at New York University and part of Tisch Future Artists. The collaborative workshop is taught by DPI faculty and students. We at Future Imagemakers are passionate about image-making, self-expression, and social justice. We believe in the power of photography to celebrate diversity and intersectionality, and to address racism, gender discrimination, and all forms of intolerance. We seek to expand boundaries and learn from each other.
Artist Bios
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NYU Tisch Future Imagemakers
Future Imagemakers at NYU Tisch Photography & Imaging is a free digital program for New York City area high school students offered in the Department of Photography and Imaging (DPI) at New York University and part of Tisch Future Artists. The collaborative workshop is taught by DPI faculty and students. We at Future Imagemakers are passionate about image-making, self-expression, and social justice. We believe in the power of photography to celebrate diversity and intersectionality, and to address racism, gender discrimination, and all forms of intolerance. We seek to expand boundaries and learn from each other.
Organizations
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NYU Tisch Department of Photography and Imaging
The Department of Photography and Imaging (DPI) at Tisch School of the Arts at New York University is a four-year B.F.A. program situated in New York City. Centered on the making and understanding of images, DPI offers students both the intensive focus of an arts curriculum with a grounding in the liberal arts. We embrace multiple perspectives, and our majors work in virtually all modes of analog and digital photo-based image making, multimedia, new media, and post-photographic 3D simulation technologies. The studio work is accompanied by a wide-ranging critical studies curriculum. Our alums have gone on to work in a wide variety of creative fields. They are artists, documentary makers, journalists, fashion and editorial photographers, film makers, cinematographers, educators, writers, activists, craftspeople, coders, web designers, art directors, graphic designers, book designers and publishers, art historians, curators, art dealers, arts administrators, archivists, and more.
Like all the departments at Tisch, our students come from all over the world with different outlooks and desires. We embrace those differences, and we are proud that there is no single defining look to our student work. We foster personal vision and offer a curriculum that is demanding but allows students the flexibility to take advantage of courses throughout the university. We want DPI to be a site of invention where our students are encouraged to think and see as well as engage with and understand the power of visual culture. We believe in the power of photography to celebrate diversity and intersectionality, and to address racism, gender discrimination and all forms of intolerance.
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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
We’re honored to continue our partnership with Photoville for our 7th consecutive year, and to celebrate Photoville’s 12th edition! Each year Photoville provides so many rich, unique, and diverse experiences in and around photography–PhotoWings is thrilled to help enrich this community as Education Partners.
Our mission is to highlight and help facilitate the power of photography to influence the world. We help photography to be better understood, created, utilized, seen, and saved. We are dedicated to utilizing the power of photography to further deep thinking, communication, and action.
The PhotoWings Outreach Program and our extensive media archive have myriad educational applications and possibilities, including projects from partners that cross disciplines, generations, and cultures. We also create toolkits/curricula for replication, adaptation and/or inspiration.
PhotoWings has partnered to document the Photoville Talks for the past five years, to expand the ways the global community can be a part of these important dialogues. Explore the collection of Photoville Talks today!
Be sure to check out all the Photoville Resources that have been supported in partnership with PhotoWings
And for more information about PhotoWings, you can visit http://photowings.org/
Everything in Between: A Spectrum of Emerging Visions
Featuring: NYU Tisch Future Imagemakers
Curated by: Jessica Bal Emily Contreras Gómez Chrissy Nelson Momo Takahashi
Locations
View Location Details Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza1 Water St
Brooklyn, NY 11201
This location is part of Brooklyn Bridge Park
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Recipient of the 2022 Photoville & PhotoWings Educator Exhibition Grant
Future Imagemakers is a free digital program for New York City area high school students offered in the Department of Photography and Imaging (DPI) at New York University and part of Tisch Future Artists. The collaborative workshop is taught by DPI faculty and students. We at Future Imagemakers are passionate about image-making, self-expression, and social justice. We believe in the power of photography to celebrate diversity and intersectionality, and to address racism, gender discrimination, and all forms of intolerance. We seek to expand boundaries and learn from each other.
Heartfelt thanks to Director of Future Imagemakers Lorie Novak; DPI Chair Deborah Willis, Ph.D.; Patti Pearson; Sheril Antonio, Ph.D.; Dean Allyson Green; DPI Staff Niki Kekos, Jacob Watkins, Adam Ryder, Jordan Cruz, and Edgar Castillo for their support throughout this semester’s Future Imagemakers workshop.
