Featuring: Emilio Albores-Falk, Ashton French, Hannah Dawes, Amitis Hajheidari, Athena Jensen, Lailatul Aldria, Naomi Clemente Maeda, Jordan-Paige Gibson, Sabine Bomse, Emma Giersdorf, Lieselle Bimpeh, Naqaa Elzoeiry, Samantha Wang, Jade Mota, Gabrielle Madron-Chao, Aleksandra Glacel Tyrtyshnaya, Mao Ohue
Now+Then is a teen art project that explores archival family photos through research, interviews, and artmaking. Students explored various contemporary photographers’ work that engages directly with archives including: Kyle Lui’s Sowing Rice with Salt, Keisha Scarville’s Passports, Dawoud Bey’s Birmingham Project, Anthoula Lelekidis’ Collage, and Joshua Rashaad McFadden’s I Am a Man. They brainstormed all they knew about a chosen photograph or family member, then conducted interviews to fact check and gain a deeper understanding—all while asking, “How does learning about my family’s history impact the way I see myself?” Primary source interviews and research were the foundation for thoughtful and deeply personal artmaking. Through an extraordinary range of photographic approaches, these students created a collective portrait of immigrant family life as varied and vital as New York City itself. Each image is an act of preservation, honoring a history as singular as the journey that brought it here.
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.
Now+Then
Featuring: Various Artists
Curated by: Alexis Lambrou
Locations
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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.
Recipient of the 2026 Photoville & PhotoWings Educator Exhibition Grant.
