Presented by: Abrons Arts Center, Perfect City/The Catcalling Project, and Photoville
(In)Visible Guides brings together photographer Destiny Mata and residents of a Lower East Side shelter for domestic violence survivors to explore notions of memory, safety, and loss.
Learn MorePresented by: Social Documentary Network and Zeke Magazine
2023 ZEKE Award winners include visual stories on resistance against extractive industries in Ecuador, violence against women in Ethiopia, the Vatican apology to the Indigenous community in Canada, a thriving Queer community in Appalachia and others.
Learn MorePresented by: Leica Camera & Photoville
Photographic images that encapsulate the stories, the people and the powerful landscape of Barbados, the Southeastern island in the Caribbean sea.
Learn MorePresented by: Parsons School of Design
A Quality Of Light – to channel Audre Lorde – “has direct bearing” on what the photograph brings forth into the world, and, in turn, on what the artist aspires to contribute to the complex image universe.
Learn MorePresented by: The Alice Austen House
All the Dreamers is a collection of candid portraits made on board the Staten Island Ferry between 2014 to 2022. Its images depict ferry riders in moments of repose and respite during an anxious time for the city, nation and world
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
Karabo Mooki’s work follows unique narratives and authentic emotions in nature, with a focus on distinctive casting and under-represented faces.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville with additional support by the Phillip & Edith Leonian Foundation
Another Perspective is a cross generational photo collaboration between three documentary photographers who all have direct experince with the criminal justice system.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville with additional support from the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York
As Free As A Bird is an ostensibly casual portrait of an invisible, closed community of mobile home dwellers in the Netherlands. A world in itself, containing free spirits not constrained by employment agreements or civic duties, with their own unwritten rules, taste and culture.
Learn MorePresented by: Hudson Yards Hell Kitchen Alliance & Photoville
In the journey to feel at home in our Asian American or Pacific Islander identities, we may encounter different versions of ourselves. Through this collaboration, nine Asian photographers share the histories, meanings and stories behind our names.
Learn MorePresented by: American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP)
The world is in a constant state of change, and we see it everywhere; from the smallest details in the biggest cities to the grand vistas of the wilderness. Join ASMP which also includes selections from members of NANPA as it displays a selection of works from its members that illuminate and reveal the changes happening all around us.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
Autistic Joy aims to empower and activate change – encouraging families and communities to engage in conversations about acceptance and joy starting with how Neurodivergent children are treated, valued and seen. This is one Black Autistic Boy’s journey.
Learn MorePresented by FRONTLINE PBS and the Ukrainian Association of Professional Photographers (UAPP)
Mstyslav Chernov and Evgeniy Maloletka photographed the siege of Mariupol from day one. They were the last journalists in the besieged city.
Learn MorePresented by: The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
The Schomburg Center shares images of the oldest photographs in their collection. Early photographs created space for black self-representation and offered a way to visualize Black humanity at a time when most African Americans were legally held as property.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
Using the color blue, which for hundreds of years has been associated with melancholy and sadness – Heather Evans Smith’s series, Blue, explores the depression many women often feel during mid-life.
Learn MorePresented by: National Geographic
It’s not just Stonehenge: New discoveries reveal an era when awe-inspiring monuments were all the rage.
Learn MorePresented by: Too Young to Wed
Broken Promises offers an intimate glimpse into the lives of women and girls in Afghanistan, and the devastating consequences of the rollback in their rights following the Taliban takeover in 2021.
Learn MorePresented by: Hudson Yards Hell Kitchen Alliance & Photoville
Calories of Power documents the efforts of a dedicated group of volunteers known by their community as Artists, Athletes, and Activists as they undertake a plant-based strategy to nourish communities in Manhattan & The Bronx with fresh fruit & vegetables.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
Indigo cultivation helped fuel American slavery. Today, women artists and homesteaders in South Carolina are writing a new chapter in indigo’s painful history.
Learn MorePresented by: Working Assumptions and Citizen Film
Working Assumptions is proud to partner with Citizen Film on American Creed: Citizen Power, a documentary initiative exploring American idealism and community leadership from a range of young adult perspectives. A selection of cast members are using our wrkxfmly assignment to tell visual stories about how they care for friends, families, home, communities, the land, and democracy itself.
Learn MorePresented by: Abrons Arts Center & Photovile
Clayton Patterson’s Front Door: Residents and Writers features rarely-seen images from the renowned photographer, who has documented the unique cultural ecosystem of the Lower East Side for over 40 years.
Learn MorePresented by: Queens Museum & Photoville
Inspired by the longing for ancestral remembrance through the traditional family album, the Clayton Sisterhood Project explores contemporary kinship, and the continuing legacy built by the photographer’s sisters and nieces from Queens, NY moving onto Clayton, North Carolina land together.
Learn MorePresented by: Melkweg Expo & Photoville, with additional support from the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York
Dear Mr. Welles investigates the impact of the radio broadcast: ‘The War of the worlds’ by Orson Welles by visualizing letters written to Orson Welles the days after the broadcast was aired.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
Eros And Its Discontents (2016-2023) documents individuals from the LGBTQIA+ community in India. This series of staged performative portraits show individuals who do not wish to put themselves in boxes, and thus their stories spill out of the frames and enter our imaginations.
Learn MorePresented by: Bronx Documentary Center
Everyday Bronx is an exhibition based on the popular Instagram account, which celebrates the daily life and beauty of The Bronx.
Learn MorePresented by: IN-Tech Academy MS/HS 368 & Photoville, in Partnership with PhotoWings
Faces of Us: Photographic Portraits and Personal Narratives by students of IN-Tech Academy MS/HS 368, The Bronx, NYC
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
Rhynna M. Santos’ mission is to use the art of photography to document Star Wars plus size and other diverse fans frequently overlooked from the view of mainstream fandom.
Learn MorePresented by: Haiti Cultural Exchange
Fanmi M, Men Yo! (“My Family, There They Are!”) is a series of abstract photographs of queer Haitians in history, culture, and the current reality. The work, created as a Lakou NOU 2022 artist-in-residence with Haiti Cultural Exchange, celebrates and acknowledges the fluidity of queer Haitians, honoring their ability to imagine and create kind futures for the queer community in New York, Haiti and around the world.
Learn MorePresented by: The Pulitzer Center, TIME, Rukhshana Media
After the fall of Kabul in August 2021, Afghan women are attempting to build new lives abroad. These are the stories of seven women’s journeys that took them around the globe.
Learn MorePresented by: William Alexander Middle School 51 and Photoville, in partnership with PhotoWings
Celebrating Middle School 51’s 40-year history of photographic education, students from M.S. 51 adjudicate a retrospective of darkroom and digital images created by students who have previously attended this renowned photography program in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Learn MorePresented by: The Alice Austen House
Jade Doskowʼs large-scale photographs of the iconic New York landfill-turned-park Freshkills make clear itsʼ paradoxical, ethereal beauty, while creating an important archive of a major chapter within the story of New York Cityʼs infrastructure.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
A personal record of the pandemic experience on the island of Manhattan connecting the 1918-19 influenza and COVID-19 outbreaks. Spanning a century, this visual essay documents the crises by questioning issues of individual and collective responsibility but also highlights new and long existing racial and socioeconomic disparities catalyzed by the epidemic.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
I went to the NRA convention without a particular story in mind that I wanted to tell, but within minutes of being inside the Indian Convention Center I figured it out. I would mainly focus on the many children I saw. It was very interesting to witness their absorption and interactions with the enormous amount of weapons on display.
Learn MorePresented by: Alice Austen House & Photoville
Nathan Kensinger’s work explores hidden urban landscapes, post-industrial ecologies, forgotten waterways, environmental contamination, and coastal communities endangered by sea level rise and climate change. His work encompasses photography, film, installation, curation and writing.
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A photographic journey through the golden age of hip-hop.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville with additional support from Leica Camera
This work focuses on the people of Sharon Chischilly’s home community, the Navajo Nation.
Learn MorePresented by: Chris Hondros Fund
Photojournalists use cameras to record and relay newsworthy events to the public. Whether it’s at someone’s home, a public sidewalk, a state capitol, or a conflict zone, photojournalists encounter a range of situations for which they must immediately decide what to include and exclude in a photograph. Every photo offers a multitude of details that can be investigated with a close read. How often do you make the effort to not just look at a photo, but rather look into it, asking yourself, “What is this photo doing, and how is it doing it?” This exhibition provides tools and questions to better understand photographs by engaging in this type of close reading.
Learn MorePresented by: ICP at THE POINT
ICP at THE POINT: Beauty in Being is an exhibition of photographs by students from the International Center of Photography’s partnership with THE POINT CDC, which celebrates local voices honoring the people, places, and things that keep us uplifted in our everyday lives.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
Xi Chen’s Inside Out depicts the exterior and interior of important New York City buildings in a single image, aiming to reflect both the presence of the building in its urban landscape and the human purposes it serves.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
Celebrating Le Grand Boubou: A dress that reinvents itself for centuries
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville with additional support from the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York
Inspiring stories about sex workers who are willing to serve persons with disabilities.
Learn MorePresented by: The Bob and Diane Fund
Losing Self celebrates the work of seven Bob and Diane Fund grantees telling poignant and personal stories about Alzheimer’s disease, dementia and the devastation it causes families, caregivers and those suffering from its tragic effects.
Learn MorePresented by: New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, Department of Photography & Imaging
The Department of Photography & Imaging presents a survey of work from faculty and staff spanning four decades and encompassing the varied nature of contemporary photographic practice. Curated by Editha Mesina.
Learn MorePresented by: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
From bustling markets in Africa to crowded metro stations in Asia, the photographs capture the essence of each destination and the diverse cultures that make them so special.
Learn MorePresented by: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
This is a love letter to our connection with the natural world, a way to realize we are not external to nature. Our place within it is filled with…moments.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
Nature Preserve depicts an imagined paradise filled with beauty and abundance, creating a fantasy of what could be if humans choose not to destroy the Earth’s ecosystems.
Learn MorePresented by: The Museum of Modern Art
New Photography 2023 explores the photographic work of seven artists, all at various stages in their careers, who are united by their critical use of photographic forms and their ties to the artistic scene in the port city of Lagos (Èkó), Nigeria.
Learn MorePresented by: The New York Times
New York City is home to a diverse array of spiritual and religious communities. In 2022 New York Times staff photographer James Estrin spent months exploring some of them, documenting more than 30 places of worship throughout the city.
Learn MorePresented by: The National Press Photographers Association sponsored by University of Georgia College of Journalism & Mass Communication and Sony Corp
The National Press Photographers Association is proud to present a selection of winners across all photo, video, and digital divisions from the 2023 Best of Photojournalism competition.
Learn MorePresented by: Harvest Collegiate High School and Photoville, in partnership with Photowings
Inspired by artist Wendy Ewald’s American Alphabets series, students at Harvest Collegiate High School explored language, identity, and culture through cyanotype self-portraits connected to a specific word.
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Surveillance films of individuals and events made by the NYPD in the 1960s and ’70s are matched with vintage audio excerpts from City-owned WNYC radio programs, creating unique and dynamic new content.
Learn MorePresented by: Black Women Photographers & Photoville
Explore Black femininity through the lens of four Black Women photographers. We invite you into a black woman’s home while you view photographs of the Our Black Experience.
Learn MorePresented by: NBC News & ProPublica
Each year, child protective services agencies inspect the homes of roughly 3.5 million children without a warrant. Only about 5% of these kids are ultimately found to have been physically or sexually abused.
Learn MorePresented by: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
Photography can come in many shapes and forms (even more so in today’s digital age), and as an art form there is no right or wrong. We need to understand the context and background behind why a photographer creates the work they create.
Learn MorePresented by: Picturing Black Girlhood
Now in its third iteration, Picturing Black Girlhood: Black Utopia how restages intimate Black girl narratives made through the reifying lens of Black women and genderqueer artists and the real-time experiences and perspectives of Black girls themselves while exploring the powerful connections between Black girlhood open space, and the natural world.
Learn MorePresented by: World Health Organization
On WHO’s 75th anniversary, this exhibition looks back at some of the highlights from our archives, with a focus on images and stories produced from the 1950s to the 1970s by some of our most prolific contributing photographers.
Learn MorePresented by: The Alice Austen House
The images that I make are drawn from my daily experiences and made in an intuitive and spontaneous manner. I am drawn to personal portraits, evocative gestures, and the small details in someone or something that I can use to make a visual statement on the world-at-large.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
This decade-long documentary photographic project follows the lives of Ngāi Tūhoe man John Teepa and his family as they live on traditional indigenous land in the remote mountains of Aotearoa New Zealand.
Learn MorePresented by: The New York Times
The New York Times photographers in and around Ukraine have chronicled the devastation and misery wrought by the biggest ground war in Europe since World War II.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
Affirmation of the third gender in Oaxaca, Mexico, and the redefinition of morality.
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What’s for sale at an animal café? Something very precious: Contact.
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Sowing Rice with Salt explores the impact of immigration on intergenerational relationships, through diptychs of archival images of immigrant parents and recreations of their children with written reflections.
Learn MorePresented by: Bard High School Early College Manhattan & Photoville, in partnership with PhotoWings
Speaking Portraits elevate our experiences, reveal hidden truths, and inform the viewer about what is most meaningful to us.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
Apart from the bodily characteristics of flexibility, strength and apparent double-jointedness, a contortionist requires years of dedication to extremes of discipline and training, often beginning in childhood, to acquire the fluid artistry needed to create a serpentine dance of the human body.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
A photo documentary of the Black cowboy and cowgirl culture throughout America.
Learn MorePresented by: The Creative Youth Society & Honeydark Creative Studios and Photoville, in partnership with PhotoWings
The Crown & Glory Project celebrates underrepresented young creatives in NYC, challenging them to create DIY crowns from unconventional and found materials, as well as create collaborative photo portraits wearing their crowns that capture their individuality and goals as future creative leaders.
Learn MorePresented by: Magnum Foundation
The Gay Space Agency confronts the American space program’s historical exclusion of openly queer astronauts, reimagining a history of the space program that celebrates queerness and highlights LGBTQIA+ role models.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
Rekha works long hours at a male dominated fish market under the scorching sun. Everything from her optimism to her colorful skirts set her apart. She works long hours and lives happily in a tiny slum. Despite what she has overcome in her life, she is resilient and cares for the others in her community. The goldfish signifies that you are called to help others, that change is always happening, and you must learn to go with the flow.
Learn MorePresented by: Arts Brookfield
Reteti elephant sanctuary takes in orphaned and abandoned elephant calves with an aim to release them back into the wild herds adjoining the Sanctuary.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville with additional support by the Phillip & Edith Leonian Foundation
The journey of Yenis Andrade, a young migrant woman from Venezuela, the birth of her new baby girl, and their first steps of her and her family rebuilding their lives with New York as their new home.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
We all have a lost love, a forgotten friendship, a missed connection. This portrait series asks the question, “What would you say to the one who got away?”
Learn MorePresented by: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
A peek into the kaleidoscope of festivals that paint the canvas of India.
Learn MorePresented by: The Alice Austen House
Gerard Franciosa (b.Queens, NY 1967) has been photographing for over 30 years. He is drawn to particular places, landscapes that reveal a personality and emit a force that excites him, scares him or gives him solace. His photographs index disturbances, both visual and perceived, caused by light, form and the geometry of chaos and stillness.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville with additional support by the Phillip & Edith Leonian Foundation
This Land is Your Land is an assemblage of appropriated materials, photography, and artifacts that ask the viewer to consider their own associations with the National Parks. Viewers are asked to acknowledge land and race as it applies to the nostalgia, colonization and learned truths.
Learn MorePresented by: Project MiRA & Photoville, in partnership with PhotoWings
Through Our Eyes uses formal collaborative portraits and single documentary images made by young women participants of Project MiRA to tell the story of resilience, joy, and struggle in the barrios of Caracas, Venezuela – a country that has been hit by a years-long crisis.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
This exhibit is connected to Queens through history, tradition, and intimate stories and experiences; three lens based artists – Anthoula Lelekidis, Salvador Espinoza, and Julie Thompson – explore themes of personal history of diaspora and memory, the impacts of development and gentrification, and the unique culture of local communities.
Learn MorePresented by: The Pulitzer Center
This collection of projects supported by the Pulitzer Center explores themes of cultural traditions and resistance, showcasing the resilience of communities around the world as they fight to preserve and revitalize traditions that sustain livelihoods and create hope for the next generation.
Learn MorePresented by: School of Visual Arts Continuing Education (SVACE)
Tributaries is a group exhibition featuring the works of three lens-based artists and members of the School of Visual Arts Continuing Education community, residency participant Murat Kahya, SVACE student Nivia Hernandez, and SVACE faculty member Esteban Toro.
Learn MorePresented By: New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Unsung Heroes of Public Health aims to reframe and widen the historical narrative of public health, by spotlighting individuals and organizations that have made significant contributions to public health milestones in New York City. For a city of 8 million, public health requires a multitude of approaches working together – community activism, research & innovation, information sharing and mentorship. These are stories of perseverance and dedication to shaping a healthier future for those to come.
Learn MorePresented by: National Geographic
A flat-topped peak high above the Amazon rainforest gives researchers a chance to identify new species and unlock secrets of evolution. The biggest challenge: getting there.
Learn MorePresented by: National Geographic
As lines have blurred between nature and city in the United States, we’ve created the perfect sanctuaries for urban carnivores. Here’s why.
Learn MorePresented by: Photoville
A multimedia exhibit consisting of intimate audio interviews and poignant medium format film portraits exploring the unique collective loss experienced by local burlesque performers during the first winter of the devastating Covid-19 pandemic.
Learn MorePresented by: War Toys
War Toys uses an art-therapy-based approach to safely collaborate with war-affected children and recreate their personal accounts through narrative photographs of locally sourced toys, placed and posed at the actual locations.
Learn MorePresented by: Indigenous Photograph & Photoville with additional support by Leica Camera
Bolivia’s Lake Poopó is drying up, most of all impacting the Indigenous Uru community who have historically lived beside it.
Learn MorePresented by: The Alice Austen House & Photoville
The images are part of a series of photographs that I have taken over the past two years at various beaches and state parks in Staten Island. Utilizing black and white, I was able to create wistful and romantic images that capture the essence of the environment, and the ambiguity that lies ahead.
Learn MorePresented by: Melkweg Expo & Photoville, with additional support from the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York
Marjolein Busstra followed the lives of minors entangled in complex networks of sexual violence. Can the old, unprocessed memory be overwritten and processed by going back to to the locations where they felt extremely unsafe, by the collaborative act of photographing?
Learn MorePresented by: Women Photograph
Excerpted images from What We See, Women Photograph’s first book: featuring the work of 100 members of our community and spanning 50 years of photographic history.
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