Presented by: The Beacon High School Photography Program and Photoville, in partnership with PhotoWings
#FilmIsNotDead is a celebration of analog photography and images created through alternative processes by NYC public high school students from The Beacon School, where students work in the traditional darkroom and alternative process, leaning into analog photography in a digital culture.
Learn MorePresented by: The Aftermath Project
The Aftermath Project is a non-profit organization driven by the idea that “War is only half the story,” supporting photographers committed to telling the other half of a conflict’s story through grants and educational programming.
Learn MorePresented by: Pulitzer Center
20/20: 20 Years, 20 Photos highlights the work of Pulitzer Center grantees whose images illuminate the most defining issues of our time. Spanning continents, cultures, and communities, this work translates distant and often abstract realities into tangible, deeply personal, and relatable stories.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
A Great Day in Ñiu Yor (AGDÑY) is a photography community project amplifying the voices, achievements, and collective presence of Latine and Indigenous artists, leaders, and change-makers in New York City.
Learn MorePresented by: HERShot! Productions and Photoville, in partnership with PhotoWings
Inspired by Art Kane’s iconic “A Great Day in Harlem” photograph, the HERShot girls collective partnered with Snug Harbor and UTA to create a new portrait series featuring Staten Island’s jazz musicians.
Learn MorePresented by: The Alice Austen House
A Map of the World is a collaborative portrait project inspired by a short stretch of beach on Staten Island’s South Shore and the community drawn to it. Beginning two years after the deep isolation of the pandemic and amid a tense political climate in the United States, the project emerged from a desire to reconnect—with people, place, and shared space.
Learn MorePresented by: The Aftermath Project and Photoville
Celebrating the signature photographic voice of Sara Terry, who probed the nature of things that had broken—from personal relationships to whole societies—and how they might be repaired.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville and Magnum Foundation
As the American Southwest endures the worst drought in 1,200 years, a story told through two communities illustrates the deep inequities in water access, and a supply divided along racial lines.
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The ÅFRÖSWÈ̩DÉ̩ photography project visualizes and celebrates what integration feels like, when we can seamlessly blend all facets of our identities without having to choose one or the other.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville, in partnership with PhotoWings
Amares Azielos is a collaborative cyanotype project with young migrants in prison, reclaiming visibility, memory, and agency through shared photographic creation and collective authorship.
Learn MorePresented by: Magnum Foundation and The Commonwealth Fund
“Asthma Boulevard” documents the human cost of the industrial port and oil complexes in Southern California, where communities are bound together by generations of environmental pollution.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville and Galería Sura
Mahnaz and Somayeh Ebrahimi present a vision of survival through art and visual poetry within a context of gender apartheid and extreme living conditions. Their photographs pay homage to Afghan women, transformed into almost mythological figures in a landscape of both hope and turmoil.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville with additional support from The Economic Hardship Reporting Project
Beyond Respekt follows youngsters in East Los Angeles from 1994 to 2025, growing into adulthood amid gangs, hardship, strong families, and rich Latine culture. For over thirty years, Rodríguez and Carmilla Floyd have documented their lives as they become adults, parents, and, in some cases, grandparents.
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Birds of a Feather is an interactive, large-scale outdoor book sculpture that reimagines Claire’s recent photography book. Inspired by the large scale of Audubon’s Elephant Folio, the work takes the familiar intimacy of a book and expands it into an unexpected scaled object designed for collective engagement.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville, PhotoWings, and Henry Street Settlement
Bridging Generations is a year-long initiative centered on intergenerational exchange, community storytelling, and creative collaboration. Young people and local older adults from the Lower East Side partnered to share personal histories, collaborate artistically, and forge new, intergenerational connections.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville with additional support by the Phillip & Edith Leonian Foundation
An immersive container installation that transforms the sea from a site of rupture into a living cosmological archive. Step into the sea as memory, ritual, and ancestral passage.
Learn MorePresented by: The Alice Austen House
While frequently photographed, this body of work turns away from spectacle to focus on the cultural identity of Staten Island’s community. It is the people, passengers and crew alike, whose quiet perseverance imbues the crossing with meaning.
Learn MorePresented by: NPR
A visual journey following cumbia across six countries, capturing the people, places and traditions that sustain the music as it evolves across borders and generations to remain a powerful expression of culture and identity.
Learn MorePresented by: Jon McCormack, Photoville, and South Street Seaport Museum
“Elements of Wonder: When Nature Becomes Art” invites a slow and attentive way of seeing. These images ask us to pause, to look more deeply, and to remember our place within a living, breathing system far larger than ourselves.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
In “South Street,” photographed in the 1980s, Mensch documented the forces at work to transform the waterfront at the Fulton Market from a nocturnal workingman’s culture to a commercial mall and shopping destination.
Learn MorePresented by: Leica
False Prophet Radio—Searching for the soul and Identity of America
Learn MorePresented by: Parsons School of Design
Fault Lines brings together the work of first- and second-year MFA Photography students at Parsons School of Design, offering a collective snapshot of a program grounded in experimentation, critical inquiry, and the continual redefinition of photographic practice. Positioned within an innovative fine arts and experimentaframework, the MFA challenges students to push beyond conventional image-making, engaging photography as a fluid, expanded field that intersects with installation, moving image, sculpture, and emerging technologies.
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Fighting fiercely and without reservation, the women boxers in this series discover and expand the limits of not only their determination, will, and bodies, but of society’s expectations for them.
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Focus on the Vote tells the stories of those working to advance, protect, implement and participate in the vote.
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A love letter in images, Framing Fatherhood: A Celebration of Black Fathers gathers the work of 15 prominent Black male photographers to declare, with tenderness and defiance, that Black joy, Black legacy, and Black fatherhood demand to be witnessed.
Learn MorePresented by: ProPublica and High Country News
Free Range, presented by ProPublica and High Country News and featuring photography by Roberto “Bear” Guerra, explores the cost of ranching on public land across the West.
Learn MorePresented by: Fresh Mercado and Photoville
Cafecito: What Keeps Us breaks the rules of the traditional exhibition, celebrating lo-fi production, personal archives, and the messy humanity behind images that outlive us.
Fresh Mercado is a visual culture platform translating creative intelligence for the future of image-making, helping professionals, artists, and in-house teams navigate the intersection of photography, design, and AI.
Learn MorePresented by: The Seaport, Photoville and Goal Click
From New York to the Himalayas, people from around the world capture their soccer lives and communities.
Learn MorePresented by: National Geographic
Scientists say that the fires ravaging the western United States are burning differently these days. For photographer Matt Black, documenting the aftermath requires a new approach as well.
Learn MorePresented by: Red Hook Art Project and Photoville, in partnership with PhotoWings
Red Hook Art Project (RHAP) presents I Am Not Broken, a 2026 art series designed to empower students to explore, express, and share their personal narratives through art by confronting the challenges and complexities of their lives while amplifying the strength, resilience, and creativity inherent in their communities.
Learn MorePresented by: The International Center of Photography
ICE in Communities presents recent work by Jeenah Moon and Yuki Iwamura documenting the tensions brought to community life by agents from ICE (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement).
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
Bolivia has been considered a society that preserves its traditions and culture. However, a large community of young Bolivians has created its own culture, which contrasts with traditional Bolivian society.
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Landing is a collaborative photo-documentary project that looks at the purposeful escape skateboarding provides to a handful of Palestinian skaters.
Learn MorePresented by: Melkweg Expo and Photoville, with additional support by Dutch Culture USA
In 1935, Nazi Germany launched Lebensborn to create a ‘racial elite’. Birth was controlled and children abducted and ‘Germanized.’ Berkers traces how this ideology shaped lives through portraits, testimonies, objects, and the lingering presence of this precarious past in former Lebensborn homes and their surroundings.
Learn MorePresented by: En Foco, Inc.
Legacy Lab: Archive Edition draws from the En Foco archives and artworks developed through the Legacy Lab workshop series to examine how family photographs, personal histories, and creative practices transform into shared cultural memory, preserving and activating underrepresented histories.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
Little Boxes is a photo novel set in Palm Springs, where a photographer searches for traces of Marilyn Monroe while moving through suburban landscapes, as Malvina Reynolds’ song “Little Boxes” runs quietly beneath the story of an American dream slowly dissolving in the background.
Learn MorePresented by: Ember Charter Schools For Mindful Education, Innovation, & Transformation and Photoville, in partnership with PhotoWings
A student-led portrait exhibition where Central Brooklyn youth photograph one another and reflect on love, peace, power, and freedom, inviting the public into a shared space of listening, recognition, and self-defined storytelling.
Learn MorePresented by: Pratt Center for Community Development
A documentary photography and storytelling project centering BIPOC entrepreneurs who manufacture in New York City, showcasing how they transform passion into production while navigating the challenges of building businesses in one of the world’s toughest markets.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
A photographic time capsule of a pre-gentrified South Brooklyn Memorial Day parade that preserves a neighborhood and a moment now largely vanished.
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Mikayla Raines’ “Save A Fox Rescue” is not a sanctuary; the nonprofit’s purpose is to rescue foxes bred for fur coats, and for the foxes to be adopted to vetted educated caretakers, after their necessary medical care and rehabilitation.
Learn MorePresented by: The Alice Austen House
This photographic series explores the subtle boundary between invitation and distance within domestic space. Most of the subjects are portrayed in their living rooms—the area traditionally reserved for receiving guests—positioning the viewer as a visitor momentarily welcomed into an intimate environment.
Learn MorePresented by: Leica Gallery New York
Misty Copeland’s final day of performance, captured from morning until her final bow.
Learn MorePresented by: The Neighborhood
“Moses of the City” is a modern day interpretation of the Exodus story, using original writing with staged images alongside documents of protest from 2020-2021.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
Mother and Son is a staged photographic series about living with and caring for a 90-year-old mother in a Queens apartment, where everyday family life becomes a humorous and tender exploration of caregiving, role reversal, and intimacy.
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My Love Letter to Queens explores the life and energy of Queens, New York, through street photographs that spotlight the everyday, the vibrant, and the quietly remarkable in the borough’s daily rhythm.
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Nothing Gold Can Stay is a documentary photography project examining the social and environmental aftermath of economic globalization in former industrial towns; tracing resilience, decline, and transformation in communities shaped—and scarred—by coal and steel.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville, in partnership with PhotoWings
Now+Then is a teen art project that explores archival family photos through research, interviews, and artmaking.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
“Odd Apples” is a celebration of the apple, a humble fruit whose unique wonders and idiosyncrasies are often overlooked and flattened by commercialization and commodification. The project documents the unusual, stunning, and strange world of apples outside of the grocery store.
Learn MorePresented by: National Geographic
By capturing the same thing from very different perspectives, a NASA astronaut and an intrepid photographer create a whole new way of seeing our world.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
Ozark Life weaves together everyday moments from my family and community in rural Arkansas as the changing seasons and passage of time move us through life in the hills we call home.
Learn MorePresented by: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and Photoville, with additional support by DutchCultureUSA
This series of portraits, which ten Dutch secondary vocational students created of each other, explores their individual perspectives on gender and identity.
Learn MorePresented by: CatchLight and Report for America
Since 2019, CatchLight’s Local Visual Desk and Report for America have partnered to support visual journalism in local newsrooms throughout the country. Their photographs illuminate and preserve the unique and shared moments that shape our communities and our understanding of one another.
Learn MorePresented by: VSCO
VSCO is a complete photography platform—including editing tools, portfolio sites, client workflows, and community—that helps photographers hone their craft, grow their network, and build a photography business on their terms.
Learn MorePresented by: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, with additional support by the Phillip & Edith Leonian Foundation
Pioneers in American dance, including Pearl Primus, Geoffrey Holder, Carmen De Lavallade, and Joe Nash, illustrate a soaring legacy of expressive movement and expert technique in this curated selection of mid-20th-century photographs.
Learn MorePresented by: Puppies Behind Bars
Puppies Behind Bars trains incarcerated individuals to raise service dogs, facility dogs, and explosive detection canines which we donate to veterans and first responders. The dogs enter prison when they are eight weeks old and live there for approximately two years. During that time, their raisers learn what it means to contribute to society, rather than take from it.
Learn MorePresented by: The Guardian
The Black Panther “cubs,” the children of the 1970s Black self-determination movement, reflect 50 years on with the blessings and burdens of their extraordinary childhoods, and with a promised future that never came.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
Red Summers VR is an installation of 360 immersive short films that examine the history of mob violence in America during WWI, from 1917-1921, examining the similarities between the social and political issues of that time and the issues society currently faces.
Learn MorePresented by: The Hudson Yards Hell's Kitchen Alliance & Photoville
Using a hand held mirror in locations around New York, photographer Stefan Falke invites distant buildings, structures, or other visuals into the main photo to create a viewing experience that requires a second look. His goal is to visually loosen up the obvious, to create images that will surprise and intrigue the viewer, and himself.
Learn MorePresented by: Art Start and Photoville
Art Start’s mission is to use the creative process to nurture the voices, hearts, and minds of historically under-resourced youth, offering a space for them to imagine, believe, and represent their creative vision for their lives and communities.
Learn MorePresented by: National Geographic
A Japanese photographer hacked his camera—and revealed a strange and curious scene right underfoot.
Learn MorePresented by: St. Ann's Warehouse
This curation of photographs brings together Elizabeth Renstrom’s exploration of women’s beauty rituals across both online and offline spaces, juxtaposing intimate, unguarded moments of care and transformation with their curated digital counterparts, and revealing how identity, performance, and perception are continually shaped between private realities and public, image-driven worlds.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
Sheila in Technicolor is my mother in my ear saying, “Don’t you want to add a little color?”—an homage to my mother and acceptance of the colorful life I have had.
Learn MorePresented by: The Remsen Wolff Collection and Photoville, with additional support by DutchCultureUSA
Remsen Wolff (1940-1998) was a New York artist and poet who created the “Special Girls – A Celebration” series in the 1990s, featuring portraits of individuals challenging gender from Amsterdam and New York.
“I insist on having their beauty shown,” – Remsen Wolff, 1998.
Learn MorePresented by: Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
Award-winning photographer Moises Saman joined Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) on a 50-mile journey from Sudan’s Darfur region to towns in eastern Chad to bear witness with communities caught in cycles of war and displacement. His images shine a light on people somehow finding ways to survive, even as the international community has mostly turned away from one of the world’s biggest humanitarian emergencies.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville with additional support by the Phillip & Edith Leonian Foundation
Exploring the strangeness lurking behind the ordinary in everyday life.
Learn MorePresented by: The New York Times
For many, the Trump administration’s resolve to deport millions of undocumented immigrants has called the American dream into question. Are the iconic words inscribed on the Statue of Liberty — of a nation open to the “huddled masses yearning to be free” — a solemn promise, or outdated poetry?
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
The Avilas, a tight-knit Texas family, navigate the immigration system after Margarita is detained. Between work, school, church, and family milestones, they support each other through months of uncertainty as immigration policy continues to upend family life across the country.
Learn MorePresented by: Alice Austen House
The Bedroom Series considers the female bedroom as both refuge and record, a space that holds the emotional weight of becoming. Through light and shadow, each photograph reflects the tension between expectations of maturity and the persistence of innocence.
Learn MorePresented by: The Alice Austen House
Over the past year, this project documents the ongoing repainting of the Verrazzano–Narrows Bridge, observing a familiar landmark in a prolonged state of transition.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
The Community Gardener Portrait Project features portraits and accompanying interview excerpts produced over the past eight years by Zachary Schulman. The project explores the creation, stewardship, and impact of community gardens and gardeners across New York City.
Learn MorePresented by: ProPublica
Trump officials eradicated the world’s largest humanitarian agency, slashing thousands of lifesaving programs and putting millions at risk. ProPublica reporters and photographers showed that even as senior officials cut these programs, they had been warned that people would die.
Learn MorePresented by: Press Club Polska
Through the lenses of leading Polish photojournalists, “The Eyes of War” presents a powerful visual narrative of Russia’s war against Ukraine. The exhibition explores human resilience, the devastating impact of conflict, and the essential role of independent journalism in defending truth.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
“If you put in the work, you’ll see the progress”
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My series combines photography with interviews where couples together for over fifty years talk about their love.
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After 24 years in the Army, a service member started therapy for the first time. His therapist asked him to start writing down his thoughts. His wife, a photographer, picked up her camera to tell this chapter of their story.
Learn MorePresented by: ICP at THE POINT
ICP at THE POINT: The Shape of Our Stories is an exhibition of photographs by students from the International Center of Photography’s partnership with THE POINT CDC.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
The SKIN IM IN: Breaking Beauty Barriers is an editorial-style portrait series by artist Pri the Honeydark celebrating the beauty, resilience, and stories of individuals living with visible skin and body conditions while challenging traditional beauty standards.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
After the fall of the Assad regime, I returned to Syria to photograph a country suspended between grief and hope, where personal memory and national transformation collide.
Learn MorePresented by: Leica
The Two Walls: The Migrant Crisis at the Mexican Border
Learn MorePresented by: Vital Strategies on behalf of the D4H Initiative
This exhibit explores what is lost when deaths go uncounted and how visual journalism, paired with stronger cause-of-death data, can help make invisible lives visible and inform more equitable public health decisions.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
The Wild Within brings new life to abandoned architectural spaces.
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As the United States marks its 250th anniversary, women of the Blackfeet Nation are working to revive a medicinal plant pushed toward extinction by the country’s expansion.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
In this series, cross-stitch embroidery has been sewn directly into personal photographs appearing as pixelization. By combining the visual language of digital imaging with analog processes, a connection is made between forgetting and file corruption, referring to photography’s tendency to displace, rather than preserve, memory.
Learn MorePresented by: Magnum Foundation and The Commonwealth Fund
In a South Texas county with one of the nation’s highest known rates of Alzheimer’s, these images bear witness to dementia’s weight on families while honoring the unexpected moments of beauty, humor, and connection that still break through.
Learn MorePresented by: The Hudson Yards Hell's Kitchen Alliance and Photoville
VEHICLE. The Chosen Ones is a multidisciplinary series that frames blackness as the engine of cultural momentum. The combination of photography, film, and painting explores this reality through the visual language of classic cars, auto shops, and fine tailoring. It enforces the truth behind the Black community’s non-monolithic nature.
Learn MorePresented by: Black Women Photographers & Photoville
What We See When We Are Seen is an exhibition curated by Polly Irungu celebrating the New York-based members of Black Women Photographers (BWP).
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville and the Lucie Scholarship Fund
The people of Ukraine, exhausted, displaced, and grieving, embrace calmness and fortitude, even as they face some of the darkest days of the war.
Learn MorePresented by: MPB and Vital Impacts, with additional support from PhotoWings
Wild Hope illuminates the resilience of nature and humanity, offering hope, empathy, and a call to protect the living world.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
“Winslow Gray Road” documents a daughter’s relentless pursuit of truth and meaning in the wake of her father’s unsolved homicide, exploring and weaving together the intersections of grief, memory, and healing.
Learn MorePresented by: Alice Austen House
I turn my lens toward Staten Island, a place that exists on the edge of New York City and yet feels worlds apart. The island’s contradictions fascinate me: its deep-rooted sense of community alongside political division, its suburban quiet against the backdrop of the city’s noise.
Learn MoreFor her acclaimed Pit Bull Flower Power series, Sophie Gamand photographed adoptable shelter pit bulls. The portraits led to countless adoptions, and spurred efforts to destigmatize an animal whose reputation for violence might say more about humans than the dogs themselves.
Learn MoreKlaus Enrique’s The Arcimboldo Series brings a fantasy back to life.
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