Messages To Those We’ve Lost: 9/11 Memorial Railings

Wooden railings from 9/11 commemoration events—covered in handwritten messages from victims’ family members—have been photographed and transcribed by the NYC Department of Records and Information Services to preserve the messages as a memorial to those we’ve lost.

On Turning Ten: An i3 Family Album

For 10 years, the SVA Masters in Digital Photography i3 Lecture Series has strived to be an open and inclusive forum for our industry. This anniversary exhibition celebrates our community with selected works from past speakers, and explores themes of family, love, and interconnectedness.

Small Details

Created in community with students and teachers at Digital Arts and Cinema Technology High School, Small Details highlights acts of resistance and change through lens-based media. Each piece documents a “small detail” displaying moments and actions of change. Through exhibiting our complex world views, our hope is to uplift others to reflect on the many ways they can create change.

Stoop Stories: City Kids

Stoop Stories™ is a documentary storytelling platform designed to connect, support, and celebrate our New York City neighbors— especially those hardest hit by the pandemic and systemic inequities.

System Error

System Error highlights the work of important activists who are on the ground working to reform our prison systems. Our exhibit hopes to inspire others as it it did us—you do not need to be on the frontline or have a personal connection to bring change.

Teaching Creativity: Making Art In A Pandemic

Teachers at two New York City public high schools share work made by their students during the pandemic. Students turned their lenses inward and made work exploring domestic life—sharing their photography with family and friends during this challenging school year.

Congo In Conversation

Congo in Conversation is an innovative collaborative chronicle, presented by the Carmignac Photojournalism Award and Finbarr O’Reilly. It addresses the human, social, and ecological challenges that the Democratic Republic of Congo faces today.

dándoles sus flores (giving them their flowers)

giving them their flowers is a multimodal youth-led storytelling exhibit honoring matriarchs of color through collaged photographs and oral histories.

Dialogue With Plants

Dialogue with Plants documents the Shipibo-Konibo Indigenous people’s use of traditional plant-based medicine, while revealing the threats to the knowledge and use of the diverse flora as elders and Indigenous leaders face the COVID-19 pandemic.

The People That Are Within These Frames: A Community Offers Self-Portraits

The Bronx Documentary Center’s both senior and junior photo leagues were asked by the New York Times to make self-portraits; how they defined self-portrait was up to them. Their resulting images are an insight into who they are and what they’ve reflected on at home during the time of COVID-19.

These Years

In Our Eyes

In Our Eyes highlights photography from New York City public middle school students who see the light in themselves and the world around them.

Duggal Presents its Annual Photo Contest: Capture The Moment

Underwater Wildlife New York

Winners of 2020 ZEKE Award for Documentary Photography

Your Shot. Your Story.

Explore before and after photo transformations to see how easy it is to edit your own photographs with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.

Seeds of Resistance

Tent Life: Haiti

In “Tent Life: Haiti,” the Open Society Foundations will present American photographer Wyatt Gallery, who spent a year documenting the tragic living conditions in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake.

Magnum Foundation Presents Bruce Gilden & Sim Chi Yin

The Magnum Foundation will present Magnum award-winner Bruce Gilden and his series “No Place Like Home: Foreclosures in America” as well as Beijing-based Sim Chi Yin, member of the VII Photo Agency Mentor Program, and her series “China’s Rat Tribe,” which peers into the lives of young migrant workers literally living underground in Beijing.

Cruel & Unusual

“Cruel and Unusual,” curated by Hester Keijser and Pete Brook, and presented by Noorderlicht, takes a gripping look behind prison walls through the work of eleven photographers, including Amy Elkins, Brenda Ann Kenneally, Deborah Luster, and Lizzie Sadin.

Raskols: The Gangs of Papua New Guinea

In “Raskols: The Gangs of Papua New Guinea,” Australian photographer Stephen Dupont presents a series of portraits that explores the world of cults, custom and tribal culture in Papua New Guinea.

Routine Crusher

Winner of the 2012 Pulse Prize, Estonian photographer Sigrid Viir delights in creating new situations that surprise, amuse, and make us feel uncomfortable, all at the same time. In “Routine Crusher,” she plays around with everyday objects and understanding.

A Decade of War

The New York Times will present a group exhibition that spans from the 9/11 disaster to the present, with emphasis on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. It aims to show the scope of their toll, both at home and abroad.

The exhibition will include work by photographers Lynsey Addario, Stephen Crowley, Tyler Hicks, Chang Lee, and Joao Silva among others.

Work from the 2011 Tierney Fellows

“Work from the 2011 Tierney Fellows” showcases a group of emerging photographers, all recent recipients of the 2011 Tierney Fellowship.

Phoot Camp 2012

“Phoot Camp 2012” is a group exhibition created during Phoot Camp, a creative retreat and photography workshop hosted by Laura Brunow Miner, founder of Pictory and former editor in chief of JPGMagazine.

Underage: work by young photographers

Feature Shoot presents “Underage: work by young photographers,” which highlights 5 young photographers who document the joys and travails of growing up; a time of first loves, experimentation, and the search for belonging.

The Curator

Photo District News (PDN), the award-winning monthly magazine for the professional photographer, will present winners from “The Curator“, PDN’s annual platform for outstanding and undiscovered fine art.

Becoming Visible

In “Becoming Visible,” Josh Lehrer has created a portrait series of homeless transgender teens using platinum and palladium printing techniques.

Let’s Face It

Highlights from the Fotofestival Naarden are showcased in “Let’s Face It.” The Fotofestival Naarden is a month-long event that helps to promote the work of contemporary Dutch photographers.

Between Destinations

In “Between Destinations,” presented by United Photo Industries, American photographer Candace Gaudiani has created a series of images taken through and framed by train windows across the United States.

Worshippers

High Noon Culture & Art Corp presents “_Worshippers_” from Chinese artist Li Hao. The work explores the lives of worshippers of Jokhang Temple, a Tibetan Buddhist temple in Lhasa.

Random Interference

In “Random Interference,” presented by United Photo Industries, Lorie Novak explores the afterlife of images and the experience of looking at photographs as a disruptive encounter. The installation will include a time-based projection as well as approximately 5,000 front-page sections of The New York Times saved since March 1999 when NATO bombed Belgrade during the Kosovo war.

The Wonder of Women

Curator Aloys Ginjaar will present a group show of 28 Dutch photographers that pays tribute to women titled “The Wonder of Woman.”

Geometria

La Fototeca will present “Geometria,” an exhibition of eight emerging photographers from Guatemala.

Charterparty

Work from current MFA Photography students at Parsons The New School of Design will be featured in the exhibition “Charterparty: Works by 1st and 2nd year MFA Photography students from Parsons The New School for Design“.

Documenting Maine

“Documenting Maine” showcases the work by students of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies and introduces the viewer to the unique landscape of Maine.

Blinded By the Light

Rock Paper Photo will present “Blinded By the Light,” a group show of new and iconic music photography. The exhibition features the work of 25 photographers and spans the 1960s to the present.

East River Ferry Images

The East River Ferry is presenting a community-sourced exhibition of photos taken from East River Ferry vessels or of East River ferry vessels.

2084

The School of Visual Arts (SVA) will present “2084“, an independent curatorial initiative by Assembly Projects, focusing on photography and multimedia.

NYC Lomowall

Based in Vienna, the experimental photography collective Lomography will present a collection of analog photos either inspired by or taken in New York City.

Photo Stand-ins

Dumbo Arts Center will present an outdoor interactive project based on tourist photo stand-ups. Invited artists will create their own non-traditional versions, in the shape of crystalline forms, mutants, a statue of the Greek sculpture Winged Victory, and more.

Dying Breed: Photos of Bedford Stuyvesant

Brooklyn-based photographer Russell Frederick will present work from “Dying Breed: Photos of Bedford Stuyvesant ” documenting a culturally diverse community at risk. The work raises important questions on the evolution and potential breakdown of traditional neighborhoods.

Andre Feliciano’s Greenhouse

Brazilian artist André Feliciano has been commissioned by United Photo Industries to create an interactive art installation featuring over 3,000 of his signature fabricated “camera flowers,” with cameras blooming out of 20 varieties of plants including tulips, lilies, sunflowers and myriads. These colorful sculptures will fill a custom built greenhouse.

A widely collected artist in his native Brazil, Feliciano’s installation will be the first public viewing of his work in America.

Elliniko

“Elliniko” is an ongoing project by Greek photographer Alexandros Lambrovassilis, documenting the declining state of the former international airport of Athens. A once powerful symbol of an era that marked Greece’s transition to modernity the airport’s infrastructure was effectively abandoned in 2001, despite its underlying real estate value.

THE FENCE at Photoville

In celebration of the launch of PHOTOVILLE, United Photo Industries joined forces with Photo District News and Brooklyn Bridge Park to curate and produce THE FENCE, a summer-long outdoor photo exhibition that attracted an audience of more than one million visitors!