Photoville is a New York-based non-profit organization that works to promote a wider understanding and increased access to the art of photography and visual storytelling by producing a free annual festival, amplifying impactful narratives, and connecting artists to a wide global audience by activating accessible public spaces via large scale exhibitions.
Proudly devoted to cultivating strategic partnerships and creative collaborations with community spirit, UPI approaches its mission of cultivating a wide, diverse audience for powerful photographic narratives by working closely with visual artists, city agencies, nonprofit organizations and educators worldwide to create new exhibition and public art opportunities that showcase thought-provoking, challenging, and exceptional photography. For more information about Photoville visit, www.photoville.com
Presented by Brookfield Properties, in partnership with Photoville
KangHee Kim’s work takes the viewer to another world with her series of collaged photographs entitled Street Errands.
Learn MorePresented by The Lower Eastside Girls Club and Photoville, in partnership with PhotoWings
Recipient of the 2022 Photoville & PhotoWings Educator Exhibition Grant
Senior Saviors showcases portraits that celebrate the spirit and legacy of our elders who are giving back to the Lower East Side community.
Learn MoreFive artists, bursting with new life, vibrant energy, and hope undimmed. They are united in their playful mixing of mediums, their bold use of color, their call to believe that magic is still all around us.
Learn MorePresented by Arts Brookfield, in partnership with Photoville
It was the longest night of the year here on the Weddell Sea. On the solstice, the sunset and sunrise happen side by side on the horizon — only two hours apart. The colors of the sunset merged into the colors of the sunrise. It felt surreal — the neon colors, the symmetry, and the pieces of ice — like a dream on a distant planet.
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Presented by Back to the Lab and Photoville, in partnership with PhotoWings
Recipient of the 2022 Photoville & PhotoWings Educator Exhibition Grant
During the summer of 2021, teenage students from the Jackson Heights and Elmhurst areas participated in a two-week intensive beginner photography workshop facilitated by Back to the Lab, a local photography organization.
Learn MorePresented by The Open Mind Foundation, Photoville and NYC Parks, with additional support from the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York
Antique Pink is a tribute to LGBTQIA+ elderly. Thanks to the emancipation struggle of the generations before us, LGBTQIA+ people in the Netherlands are almost equal before the law. But that acquired freedom is fragile, and the progress made will not automatically endure.
Learn MorePresented by The Eighth Grade Class of Santa Maria School (Class of 2022) and Photoville, in partnership with PhotoWings
Recipient of the 2022 Photoville & PhotoWings Educator Exhibition Grant
In this month-long project, eighth grade students created photo essays — combining art and data — to investigate the question: “What is a healthy place, and why should people care?”
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If we have ourselves as company, are we ever truly alone?
Learn MorePresented by Photoville and Time Square Arts, with additional support from the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation
Created by Matika Wilbur, Project 562 is a multi-year national photography project dedicated to photographing over 562 federally-recognized tribes in what is currently called the United States, resulting in an unprecedented repository of imagery and oral histories which accurately portrays contemporary Native Americans.
Learn MorePresented by The Ravestijn Gallery, Photoville and NYC Parks, with additional support from the Consulate General of the Netherlands in New York
The longer I do not travel, the more I turn to the place where I live. I see how my environment takes care of me — how the baker and the greengrocer bring groceries to my doorstep every Saturday morning — how all kinds of people call this their town, their neighborhood, their home.
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Everybody Skate is a documentary photo project highlighting women and non-traditional skateboarders in New York City. Brooklyn-based photographer Lanna Apisukh began the project in 2018 — sharing stories of courage, camaraderie, and athleticism through this portrait of a small but growing community.
Learn MorePresented by The Alice Austen House with Photoville and NYC Parks
During the beginning of the pandemic, a photography project across the country was born called the Front Porch Project. In early April 2020, Christine Kenworthy launched her own Front Porch Project in Staten Island.
Learn MorePresented by The Alice Austen House with Photoville and NYC Parks
The Alice Austen House presents Staten Island photographer Jahtiek Long’s photography, showcasing the places and experiences that may be at times overlooked, but deserving of representation and the opportunity to be a part of the narrative of Staten Island, New York.
Learn MorePresented by The Bronx Women’s Photo Collective with Photoville and NYC Parks
The Bronx Women’s Photo Collective, a group of self-taught photographers, memorialize the story of their search for their Taíno roots through three original photography projects.
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Sponsored by MPB
All formulated by their connection to Brooklyn, each artist’s work is a beautiful well-mixed mosaic.
Learn MorePresented by The Photographers of I.S. 318 in Brooklyn, New York and Photoville, in partnership with PhotoWings
The pandemic has changed the way we live and interact, as well as the way we see people, places, and things.
Learn MorePresented by Henson Scales Productions, Clair Oliver Gallery, SPQR Editions, and Photoville
These images serve as a time capsule of sorts — not only of my adolescence and political awakening, but also of the country whose ongoing struggle with racial inequality, police brutality, and resistance is as urgent and timely as ever.
Learn MorePresented by Indigenous Photograph, Photoville, and Leica Camera
There is a word in Zapotec used to name someone or something disappearing — when a close friend is not close anymore, when someone stops visiting as often as they do, when things transform and change, or when someone is going blind. This word, kanitlow, means “faces are getting lost,” or “disappearing.”
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The Rocketgirl Chronicles is an unintended photography project born during Melbourne’s sixth lockdown, documenting how one child’s imagination helped discover many small worlds around us, while the big world was shut down under the pandemic restrictions.
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Arder la casa explores the contingencies of political violence in Colombia through Beltran’s family history — marked by her father’s exile in 2015. Intertwining archives, photographs, and videos narrate political fights in a territory where Catholicism, santería, bullfighting, mafia culture and politics collide.
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A visual story about why the Afro-Colombian community of Quinamayó celebrates Christmas in February, expressing resistance through culture since their ancestors were enslaved people.
Learn MorePresented by Riverdale Avenue Middle School and Photoville, in partnership with PhotoWings
Recipient of the 2022 Photoville & Photowings Educator Exhibition Grant
Expand students’ creativity.
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Dreams on Hold is a collaborative project with families and kids living in a makeshift migrant camp at the Mexico-U.S. border who are hoping to cross into the U.S.
Learn MorePresented by NYU Tisch Department of Photography and Imaging and Photoville, in partnership with PhotoWings
Recipient of the 2022 Photoville & PhotoWings Educator Exhibition Grant
Twelve high school photographers present unique perspectives and artistic approaches to stories about the environment, relationships, fashion, dreams, immigration, mental health, and more.
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This project describes the legacy of my parents’ participation in radical leftist groups which sought to overthrow imperialism and capitalism through organizing and revolution.
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Dogs are the medicine we need right now.
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Identity At Play delves into the basketball culture in Indigenous communities in Oaxaca, Mexico.
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Indigenous artists Dakota Mace and Tahila Mintz engage alternative photographic processes and use soil, plants, water, and sun directly in the image-making process to tell stories about the past, present, and future of the land — stories that connect them to their ancestors, and to themselves.
Learn MorePresented by Photoville, with additional support from the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation
Puddles in my Head is about community, love, family, friends, pain, confusion, anger, joy, struggle, redemption, and how it all intertwines within the disabled community. It’s about our emotions.
Learn MorePresented by Sharon Miller for Honeydark Studios and Photoville
The Creative Ambassadors Project is an impactful photo series showcasing underserved New York City youth in powerful editorial-style portraits based on their creative career aspirations.
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A sampling of images from the 2021 winners and finalists of the inaugural Everyday Projects Grant, which focuses on early-career photographers working in their own communities.
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This work seeks to preserve the legacies and share the testimonies of Korean “comfort women,” a euphemism for women (mostly teenagers at the time) who were forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese Imperial Army during World War II.
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The Rocketgirl Chronicles is an unintended photography project born during Melbourne’s sixth lockdown, documenting how one child’s imagination helped discover many small worlds around us, while the big world was shut down under the pandemic restrictions.
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A retrospective of the work of 19 Women Photograph grantees from our first five years of supporting photographers in the continuation of their long-term projects.
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Presented by Visual Thinking Collective and Photoville
Nature Nurtures features the work of 12 photographers who have documented how nature inspires and sustains them, brings solace to others, and is a powerful antidote to the stresses of contemporary life.
Learn MoreMystery Of the Disguised is a visual exploration of the construction of an imaginary with the oral story of a town in Veracruz called Coyolillo, an Afro-Mexican community in the south of Mexico—reframing their history to one of freedom.
Learn MoreUNSETTLED is a project on change. The project documents the effects of shifting environmental, ecological, political, and economical decisions on the environment and its society. Approached from the harbor expansion zone of Antwerp in Belgium, it portrays a topic of global relevance.
Learn MoreWEINDE is an iteration of Afro Diaries. It is a mixed-media collage series of photography reflective of African emancipation, flight, futuristic cities, travel, and spirituality.
Learn MoreFour decades of my Bronx life: street life from a native son who lived through the fires and came back to document it.
Learn MoreCommunity Heroes is a community organizing and public art project celebrating the everyday heroes of our neighborhoods.
Learn MoreLocal artists, youth, and community members come together to celebrate those dedicated to strengthening and supporting Fort Greene, focusing on long-term historic residents. This is an ongoing annual collaboration with the Fort Greene Park Conservancy and Friends of Commodore Barry Park.
Learn MoreI am sharing the stories of Filipino nurses—a diaspora immensely affected by losses during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is my hope to share the lives behind the statistics and inform others on the colonial history that brought us here to America.
Learn MoreAmerica may be ending the 20-year “endless war,” but the way it is leaving Afghanistan will certainly mean the start of another phase of fighting in this war-torn country.
Learn MoreFilipino healthcare workers are reflecting on the impactful moments of the last year, sharing their stories of pain, courage and resilience as frontline workers in New York City.
Learn MoreGive Her, Her Flowers is a series of collages that revolve around honoring Black women—giving them their flowers while they’re still alive to enjoy them. Featured are advertisements of Black women from a Gold Medal Hair Products catalog (circa 1980s), paired with a variety of flowers from different advertisements.
Learn MoreGoodbye Salad Days: Kevin Faces Adulthood features handmade dioramas as the backdrop for hamster Kevin’s humorous attempts to navigate a quarter life crisis. Dealing with dating, a dead-end job, his first gray hairs, and a blooming existential crisis, Kevin is stuck between youth and whatever comes next.
Learn MoreAcross 41 years of photographing in Prospect Park, Jamel Shabazz has captured reunion picnics, musicians, races, dog walks, and so much more in the beloved park he calls his “Oasis in Brooklyn.”
Learn MoreOn My Block is a love letter to New York City from a native New Yorker. The project utilizes portraits and cityscapes to give the viewer a unique perspective of the city.
Learn MoreBLACKNESS IS seeks to highlight and challenge nuanced ideas of Black identity through the presentation of questions blended with landscape scenes of a desert, an environment known to be oppressive towards human life.
The Museum of the Old Colony is a conceptual art installation that examines the fraught relationship between the U.S., and its modern-day colony Puerto Rico, through the use of appropriated historical imagery and objects.
Cheering on the Border is a story of the border not as a boundary, but as a region, and how life in that region is experienced by a specific group of high school cheerleaders.
The trailblazing women photographed for this project are bringing change to the construction industry of New York. They are building the future of the construction trades.
Kennedi Carter (b. 1998) explores ideas of Blackness related to wealth, power, respect, and belonging in her new series of photographs. Carter dressed friends and acquaintances in historically-inspired costumes that represent wealth and power.
We Are Present is an excerpt of portraits taken in New York and Minneapolis that documents the lived experiences of Black Americans during the double crisis of the pandemic, and the uprisings against injustice.
Healing Justice Practitioners in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
A preview of the traveling nationwide exhibit coming in 2021, We, Women presents the first cohort of women and non-binary artists examining critical issues across the U.S. through photo-based, community engagement projects that resist and interrogate social and political landscapes, while promoting empathy and unity.
A contemplative, inner journey of photographs, made from looking out of windows and seeking a sense of connection, longing for the warmth of humanity.
A photographer began photographing her brother to better understand him as a person on the autism spectrum. The project blossomed into a collaboration when he started to narrate his own story.
Photoville’s Emerging Artists to Watch.
A Mother’s Eye features photographs of children made by their mothers. Artists uncover the moments that become family memories, narratives of growing up.
Since the start of the pandemic, health workers have been operating in difficult and grueling conditions, as they continue saving lives on the frontline. At the hospital where I work, staff must balance caring for patients with a limited supply of personal protective equipment, while keeping track of changing protocols, and working conditions.
Learn MoreIn 1994, twenty five years ago, Nelson Mandela became South Africa’s first black president and his nation was a free country. The children born around that time are now young adults: the born-free generation for whom racial segregation is a thing of the past. But how free are they now?
In this exhibition, Roger Fishman shows the raw power and exquisite, abstract beauty of water, through aerial photos and video from Greenland and Iceland, with the goal of engaging the public in a discussion on how each of us can transform ourselves, and the world we live in, for the betterment of all.
Learn MoreLooking Inside—Portraits of Women Serving Life Sentences, features twenty portraits of women convicted of homicide. Accompanying the photos are the subjects’ handwritten statements.
“You workin’” draws on personal and collective experience to question the current American administration and asks us to consider whether the world’s greatest superpower is failing.
Memento is a diptych portrait series based on the #MeToo movement that Rachel Wisniewski has been working on since October 2017.
Lara Jo Regan’s large-scale environmental installation takes the viewer on an noirish spin, disrupting our perspective of minimum wage workers and the fast-food experience.
Learn MoreEUSA is a series of photos of American themed places around Europe and European themed places in the U.S. and is a reaction to the homogenization of European and American cultures, a direct result of globalization.
Learn MorePhoto reportage and portraiture highlighting the common humanity among those fleeing violence south of California and environmental refugees arriving from the north.
Learn MoreA glasshouse of wet plate collodion portraits of New American immigrants illustrating that we are all immigrants and “those in glasshouses should not throw stones.”
Learn MoreKings & Queens in Their Castles has been called one of the most ambitious photo series ever conducted of the LGBTQ experience in the USA.
Learn MoreIn Los Angeles, street vending food is at the center of political marginalization while also bridging lives together.
Learn MoreLynsey Addario’s Of Love and War is a photography book with stunning images she has made while reporting from crisis and war zones all across the world.
Learn MoreOYAKO, a series on Japanese parents and children, explores how culture changes and adapts as it moves from one generation to the next.
Learn MoreAn ongoing art project by Justin Bettman, #SetintheStreet consists of elaborate interior room sets created and built in public places.
Learn MoreEast Side Stories puts a human face to gang members in Los Angeles while in their homes and with their families.
The distinctly American sport of baseball was introduced to Uganda in the 1990’s by missionaries and it attracted large numbers of youngsters eager to pick up bats and balls.
Tim’s photography reflects our planet’s beauty from the unique perspective of space.
Learn MoreThe series Clubhouse Turn (2013-2016) is the final documentation of the historic landmark of a quickly vanishing Los Angeles—Hollywood Park-and its community, before its demolition.
Learn MoreJoin us for an exploration and discussion of work from the incredible photographers selected by curator Jamel Shabazz to be part of The Brooklyn Connection exhibition.
Learn MoreHear from the photographers engaged in disseminating industry guidance and insights about what to say and not say as you navigate your photography business.
Learn MoreWhether you’re just starting out, or you’re a seasoned professional, every photographer needs a community.
Learn MoreIt’s the big open secret of the photography community: everyone does side work. Come and hear how different rockstar photographers subsidize and develop their careers with work that’s not just editorial photography.
Learn MoreThe Photoville Freelance Safety Clinics are an opportunity for freelance photojournalists and documentary photographers to receive free, expert, one-on-one advice on safety and security topics.
Learn MoreCome learn about the Community Heroes toolkit! This new and free resource helps artists, groups and public spaces to organize a local public art project in their community.
Learn MorePhotoville Festival Education Field Trips are Back!
Learn MorePhotoville Festival Education Field Trips are Back!
Learn MorePhotoville Festival Education Field Trips are Back!
Learn MoreCap off our community celebration with a set from the one and only DJ LiKWUiD!
Learn MoreBehind the Shutter is a live visual storytelling event that gives Black Shutter Productions’ guests an opportunity to talk about their work and their process of making images.
Learn MoreIn partnership with Photoville, Haiti Cultural Exchange presents Mizik Ayiti! featuring renowned Haitian artist Beethova Obas.
Learn MoreThe Photoville Educator Happy Hour is an informal way to meet our new Public Engagement Manager, Koren Martin, and also connect with other educators and art practitioners in the Photoville Education network at Brooklyn Bridge Park for the Opening Day Community Celebration at Photoville 2022! The first drink is on us!
Learn MorePut on your walking shoes and your mask, and join the Photoville team on a curated tour of the Photoville Festival!
Meet at Pier 1 Info Booth.
Learn MoreGrab your morning coffee and come join legendary photographer Joseph Rodriguez as he shares his memories and stories behind the images in his exhibition and book “Taxi: Journey Through My Windows 1977-1987,” a collection of snapshots that are on display along the fence of First Street Green Cultural Park on Houston Street.
Learn MoreProduced and Hosted by Photoville Education
Proudly supported in partnership by PhotoWings
and the NYC Mayor’s Office of Media & Entertainment
Learn MorePhotoville Youth Artist Exchanges bring together youth photographers and professional photographers for engaging conversations. This exchange features artists whose work looks inward, creating intimate images that communicate personal identity and illustrate relationships to loved ones and to home.
Learn MorePhotoville Youth Artist Exchanges bring together youth photographers and professional photographers for engaging conversations. This exchange features artists whose work reaches into their family, cultural and community roots to connect and redefine the past, present and future.
Learn MorePhotoville Youth Artist Exchanges bring together youth photographers and professional photographers for engaging conversations. This exchange features artists whose work looks outward to explore and investigate their surroundings, communities, and pressing social issues within them.
Learn MoreLearn how to write successful grants, proposals, and pitches and what it takes to become a photo editor.
Learn MoreWant to learn how to become a successful photographer or editor? Join our workshops and learn all about Crafting Your Career.
Learn MoreAcross 41 years of photographing in Prospect Park, Jamel Shabazz has captured reunion picnics, musicians, races, dog walks, and so much more in the beloved park he calls his “Oasis in Brooklyn.”
Learn MoreLearn how to write successful grants, proposals, and pitches and about the in’s and out’s of being a photo editor.
Learn MorePhotoville’s 10 Under 10 featuring presentations from The New York Times, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Abrons Arts Center, Magnum Foundation, Pulitzer Center, Indigenous Photo, United Nations Women, Joseph Rodriguez, The Darkroom Masters, and National Geographic featuring live music from Carnegie Hall’s Lullaby Project.
Learn MoreProduced and Hosted by Photoville Education
Proudly supported in partnership by PhotoWings and the NYC Mayor’s Office of Media & Entertainment
Learn MorePut on your walking shoes and your mask, and join the photoville team on a curated tour of the Photoville Festival!
Learn MoreThis session will focus on the art of pitching, website and portfolio editing, and marketing your work.
Learn MoreThis session will focus on pricing structures, how to read and interpret contracts, and best practices for business negotiations.
Learn MoreThis session will focus on legal business structures, taxes and accounting, and business insurance. The workshops are especially geared towards BIPOC photographers, and are open to photographers anywhere in the world.
Learn MoreAcclaimed photographer Jamel Shabazz has curated an exhibition at Photoville this year, showcasing young photographers from diverse backgrounds who use documentary photography to address pressing social issues. He leads a conversation with them on this panel.
Learn MoreThere has never been a more important time for acknowledging and investigating the crucial role of conflict photography in shaping our understanding of international affairs and faraway crises.
Learn MoreLearn how to finally get that Instagram-worthy shot of your dinner party table using products from West Elm!
Learn MoreMeet young artists and see new work from students enrolled in, or recently graduated from, photography schools and programs exhibiting at Photoville 2019!
Learn MoreJoe Rodriguez and David Gonzalez will be discussing his groundbreaking National Geographic cover on Spanish Harlem in the 1980s, looking back on a vital New York City community that is undergoing increasing gentrification.
Learn MoreSpend time on the basketball courts and soccer fields improving your action shots with hands-on techniques used by top sports photographers!
Learn MoreIn this activity we will transform photographs into puzzle pieces by way of mysterious images and enigmatic locations. Every image will create a clue that adds to an immersive experience as we collectively generate the treasure trail.
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