Featuring: Patrick Curling, KC Cox, Nya Holland, Nash Gluchowski, River Johnson, Aubrey Stubbs, Ellie Sun, and Erik Yang
The Issaquah High School Photo Club presents Kids of the Garage, a documentary series capturing the raw energy, style, and spirit of today’s teenagers through a retro street lens. Inspired by the timeless essence of youth culture, this project blends past and present, reviving the rebellious nostalgia of teenage life while documenting what it means to be young in 2025.
Set against the backdrop of the Issaquah Teen Café, this series explores the spaces where friendships are forged, music blares, and creativity thrives. Through candid photography and documentary storytelling, Kids of the Garage celebrates the rituals, aesthetics, and emotions that define teenagehood—whether it’s slushie runs, board games, the freedom of exploration, chill hangs, or the quiet moments of self-discovery.
By embracing the visual language of past generations, this project serves as both a love letter to teenage nostalgia and a snapshot of youth culture today. Kids of the Garage reminds us that, no matter the decade, being a teenager is about finding your place, your people, and your voice.
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 Photoville since 2017.
Kids of the Garage
Featuring: Various Artists
Locations
View Location Details Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza1 Water St
Brooklyn, NY 11201
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Recipient of the 2025 Photoville & PhotoWings Educator Exhibition Grant.
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.
