New York Waterfront Diary

I discovered the waterfront in my early twenties when I moved to Brooklyn. At the time, much of it was abandoned and falling apart. Knowing it would vanish, I felt an urge, almost a duty, to document it.

Lesbian Avengers 1994 Protest for Alice Austen and Gertrude Tate’s Lesbian Visibility. Alice Austen Park.

Documentary photographs by Saskia Scheffer capturing the historic 1994 Lesbian Avengers protest at the Alice Austen Museum Park.

Brady’s Pond

“Brady’s Pond” is an ongoing collection of images made from recurring walks through Staten Island’s sliver of public access land along the pond’s northeast shore.

Far Apart – Revelation and Refuge in an Urban Green Space

“Far Apart” is a photographic love letter to Shore Road Park, a narrow strip of playgrounds, wooded paths, and ball fields in Brooklyn that overlooks Staten Island and the Verrazano Narrows, the waterway that leads into New York Harbor.

Reflections on Harbour

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.

Freshkills

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.

All the Dreamers

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

The Sound of Shadows

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.

Etiolai

Presented by The Alice Austen House and NYC Parks

Samuel Partal makes photographs of the post-natural landscape. He lives and works in Staten Island, New York.

Dynamic Relationships

Presented by The Alice Austen House and NYC Parks

Thomas Giarraffa tells stories with his photography, creating surreal environments to comment on his past and the world he inhabits.

Staten Island Photographers

Presented by The Alice Austen House and NYC Parks

A group exhibition of eight Staten Island-based photographers curated by the Alice Austen House.

Maiden Name

Presented by The Alice Austen House and NYC Parks

Having grown up on Staten Island, David Lê uses its urban fabric as a backdrop for his Maiden Name Spring-Summer 2022 lookbook.

The Nature Of Light

Alice Austen House presents Gale Wisdom, botanical photograms.