Spanish Harlem: El Barrio in the ’80s
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
Shot in the mid-to-late 80s, Joseph Rodríguez’s photographs bring us into the core of Spanish Harlem, capturing the spirit of a people that survive despite the ravages of poverty, and more recently, the threat of gentrification and displacement.
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Covering a Crisis: Media Representation of Overdose in America
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
By questioning the main visual tropes in mainstream media of drug use and overdose, and challenging sensationalist coverage, this exhibit explores how photojournalism impacts public health.
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OPEN DOORS
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
As part of the OPEN DOORS arts and justice initiative, the Reality Poets are men who have been harmed by gun violence using storytelling, hip-hop, and the spoken word, challenging their audiences to combat the injustice that breeds violence in New York City neighborhoods.
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Photographic Greenhouse L.A.
Annenberg Space for Photography
André Feliciano will present a new Photographic Greenhouse where nature becomes the photographer and we are free to pose without being judged.
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Pit Bull Flower Power
Annenberg Space for Photography
Pit Bull Flower Power questions the way humans have abused pit bulls while it aims at rebranding these misunderstood dogs and finding them homes.
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Puzzled Creatures
Annenberg Space for Photography
Claire Rosen offers a new perspective on tradition with portraits of creatures photographed against complementary historic reproduction wallpaper popular during the Victorian Era.
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Shaping a Dialogue for Change – A Look Towards the Future in the Present
Annenberg Space for Photography
The Los Angeles based artists featured in this ongoing series of portraits have helped shape art, education, and public space in our city.
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The MASH UP – LA Edition
Annenberg Space for Photography
Photographer Janette Beckman and artist Cey Adams are co-curating The MASH UP. Four West Coast artists were selected to mash-up/paint/remix Beckman’s old school hip-hop photos.
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The Newest Americans
Annenberg Space for Photography
Sam Comen and Michael Estrin photographed and interviewed dozens of new citizens at two naturalization ceremonies in Los Angeles during February and March of 2017.
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The Palace Wild
Annenberg Space for Photography
Haddon documents the collaboration where the human figure as armature helps to breathe life into the original stories that the clothing is longing to tell.
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There is Only One Paul R. Williams
Annenberg Space for Photography
There is Only One Paul R. Williams highlights the work of a brilliant and prolific black architect who made a name for himself in pre-Civil Rights Movement America.
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TRANSFORMATION: Water as Art
Annenberg Space for Photography
The TRANSFORMATION: Water as Art project’s intent is to inspire and motivate us to protect this most valuable resource for life, and to view it in a new light.
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Typecast
Annenberg Space for Photography
Typecast is a satirical portrait series addressing cultural stereotypes perpetuated by the entertainment industry presented as a Photo Cube exhibition and day portrait session.
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Underground Chefs of South Central
Annenberg Space for Photography
Interested in the intersection of race, class, and food, Underground Chefs of South Central is an exploration of black culinary creativity and ingenuity.
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“Lawn Oyounak” : The Color of His Eyes
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
Mo dreams of building the world’s fastest car, putting the top down and feeling the wind press back the features of his face as he enters warp speed. He dreams of freedom. When he grows up, he also wants to become a doctor, because doctors make lots of money and save lives.
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The Meaning of Now: Living Life with Cancer
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
This is a story about two people who have chosen to see their cancer diagnosis as a gift. Despite the physical and mental battle of coping with treatment and the side effects of chemo, Shirley and Tato have decided to use this time to ‘live’ with cancer instead of ‘dying’ from it.
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#Gratitude #Thanks #Spasibo
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
For the last eight years, through our collaborative project, Geolocation, we have used publicly available GPS information embedded in Twitter updates to track the locations of user posts and follow them to make photographs that mark the location in the real world. In the photographs, the text of a rapid-fire tweet is married with the image of the solitary location.
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#selfie
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
“#selfie” examines how image sharing and the Internet have changed the role of photography in the digital age. The process of creating and disseminating imagery has fundamentally changed in the new context provided by digital photography, smartphones and more recently the ‘selfie’.
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The Oldest Colony
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
“The Oldest Colony” is a meditation on the Puerto Rican identity as a product of the island’s political relationship with the United States as an unincorporated territory, and now as it morphs with the economic crisis and hurricane Maria’s aftermath.
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AYACUCHO
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
The word Ayacucho comes from Quechua AYA (dead, corpse) and CUCHO (corner), meaning “the corner of the dead”. The last two decades of the 20th century were one of the most tragic moments for the city of Ayacucho and the history of Peru.
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Undocumented
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
As a special correspondent for Getty Images, I have spent much of the last decade photographing issues of undocumented immigration to the United States from Central America and Mexico. I’ve taken a broad approach, focusing on asylum seekers fleeing violence, migrants searching for economic opportunity, and the federal government’s response to pursue, detain, and deport them. Throughout, I have tried to humanize this story.
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Voyage à Dakar
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
In “Voyage à Dakar” Dutch photographer Judith Quax and her Dutch-Senegalese son, Noah, travel over land in the opposite direction of the migratory flow from Amsterdam to Dakar in Senegal: the land of Noah’s father and his Senegalese family.
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Glasshouse of Immigrants
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
I initiated “The New Americans” project to explore the new immigrant experience — people that decided to come to the USA from the 1960s onward. They portray the bravery it takes to pick up and leave one’s homeland no matter what period of time.
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Grandma Techno Checks In
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
Some projects we choose, and others choose us. “Grandma Techno Checks In” tells the story of three weeks in early 2018 when I was hospitalized for flu-related problems exacerbated by the chronic progressive MS I have lived with since 1988.
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Ke Lefa Laka
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
Eight years ago, I lost my mother and I needed to explore the possibility of keeping a connection with her. In my journey, I began looking for pieces of my mother in the house, I found many photos and clothes, which had always been there, but which I had ignored over the years. There she was, smiling and posing in these clothes.
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KINGS & QUEENS
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
For most people, drag queens are an exotic phenomenon restricted to the worlds of spectacle, fantasy and entertainment. “KINGS & QUEENS” explores how drags challenge traditional gender definitions by showing that there’s much more to life than simply being a man or a woman.
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love, loss, and longing
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
A large number of arrests have taken place in Egypt since the revolution of January 25, 2011, many of them unfounded. With many lovers left behind, inspiring stories of love, loss, and longing are being told by heartbroken women.
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Moon Dust
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
Wadi El Qamar, also known as Moon Valley, is a residential area located in the west of Alexandria, Egypt, next to the Portland Cement Factory. Just ten meters away from the residential area, the factory processes coal and garbage. It layers the homes of more than 30,000 people with toxic dust, causing tremendous health problems to those that live there.
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N.O.K: Next Of Kin
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
“N.O.K.: Next of Kin” documents how Gold Star Families cope with loss and memory through their handling of their loved ones killed in action in wars spanning from World War II to The Vietnam War and the ongoing conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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The New Gold
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
In this project, gold is a metaphor for wealth and lust. However it also allows us to discuss the extinctions of species, tribes and ecosystems that disappear because of our madness for wealth and our desire to rule over everything. The new gold is asymbol of the disappearance of what I consider our true riches.
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The New Scots
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
The 1,700 Syrian refugees relocated to Scotland may be just a fraction of the 300,000 asylum cases that Germany has received, or the 100,000 that Sweden has taken in since the war in Syria broke out six years ago. But in order to play its part, the Scots are attempting a new model for integration.
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The Patriots Story
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
“The Patriot Story” is a portrait series that tells the rarely told stories of the living Ethiopian Patriots, who proudly fought against the Italian army during the five-year occupation (1935-1941) in Ethiopia under the Italian dictator, Benito Mussolini.
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A Beautiful Abstraction
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
‘A Beautiful Abstraction’ strives to express how I see the world around me and the beauty in unseen places. My work explores the blending together of different mediums, such as photography and painting, to ultimately seek a tranquil balance of humanity and abstraction.
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Abuelas: Portraits of The Invisible Grandmothers
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
This project focuses on undocumented Mexican immigrant women who came to New York decades ago in search of opportunity for their families. Overtime, they built their lives here and have become elders of their communities: the abuelas.
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Am I What You’re Looking For?
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
“Am I What You’re Looking For?” focuses on young women of color who are transitioning from the academic world into the corporate setting, capturing their struggles and uncertainties on how best to present themselves in the professional workspace.
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And Now We Have Entered Broken Earth
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
The series uses the concept of a family tree to consider what it means to be part of a joint body; addressing sub-themes of intimacy vs loneliness, fear vs comfort, ‘sanity’ vs ‘insanity’, life and death.
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Boda Boda Madness
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
Meet Mad Max Driver, Machette, Vibze, Ghost Rider, Red Devil, Lion and The Rasta Driver! These motor drivers proudly cruise through Nairobi wearing dazzling outfits on their matching bikes. The outfits are designed by Ugandan-Kenyan fashion designer Bobbin Case in the context of the collaborative project, “Boda Boda Madness” by Bobbin and Dutch artist Jan Hoek.
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Cardboard Castle
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
The portrait of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad became a defining element in the urban landscape of Damascus, Syria. The omnipresence of an individual image leaves its imprint in people’s minds, making the physical image transcend into a visual impression. The presence of the leader is then extended to each individual living in the city.
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Dual Shadows: East Africa’s LGBT Refugees
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
“Dual Shadows” is a three-part project about the LGBT refugees of East Africa. It follows them from their homes, where they faced unimaginable abuse; to Kenya, where they fled to but faced more hardship; to the US, where many are eventually resettled through a process that takes years.
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Insider/Outsider
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
Who has the right to tell a story? Are there limitations on objectivity as an insider, or sensitivity as an outsider? Presented as two parallel exhibitions, “Insider/Outsider” seeks to start a conversation about how photographers tell stories, how they define their own relationships to the people and issues they cover, and how their lives impact the stories they tell.
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Killing the Black Snake: Resistance at Standing Rock
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
The protest against plans to pass the Dakota Access pipeline underneath the Missouri River, just north of the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota, was considered by many involved to be the time of that prophesy. Indigenous people from around the globe, but especially North America, “heard the call” and traveled to North Dakota to set up a resistance camp against the pipeline.
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My Shot: Portraits from Hamilton, an American Musical
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
This is a time when history is being made in ways that our forefathers could never have imagined. It celebrates and reverberates this history eight times a week in cities across America. This is MY SHOT.
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Paraiso Perdido
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
“Paradise Lost” started in 2012 as a document of Venezuela’s collapse and the rise of violence. Venezuela is now one of the deadliest countries in the world. It is estimated that over 28,000 people were killed in Venezuela last year—that is, in a country roughly the size of Texas.
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Smallest Library in Africa
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
“The Smallest Library in Africa” tells the story of Peter Otieno, a Kenyan visionary who saw the need to fill the education gap and address one of the main problems in the Mugure slums of Baba Dogo-Nairobi, Kenya: access to books.
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Coming Ashore
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
This series chronicles the migrant crisis in Europe and the influx of refugees coming ashore in Lesbos, Greece. More than 500,000 people arrived in the European Union last year, seeking sanctuary or jobs, and sparking the EU’s biggest refugee emergency in decades.
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Faithfully
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
This collection of portraits was taken in Lalibela, Ethiopia. I took these pictures in one of the biggest markets in the city of Lalibela. As a fashion designer and photographer, I found people that visually caught my attention. I wanted to show colorful and stylish people in different ages. Basically, I was looking for fashion inspiration in the area, because people wear their best clothes when they go to the market.
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First Generation
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
My family immigrated from Central America. They have given us, the first American-born generation, a great life—the life they never had. The abundance of food, clothes and technology our parents earned through hard work is overwhelming when compared to the poor lives they left behind.
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Flower Power
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
Using the language of traditional portraiture and baroque esthetics, the Flower Power series aims to challenge the way society perceives and treats pit bulls by shortening the emotional distance between the viewer and these misunderstood dogs. The portraits celebrate the life and dignity of these soulful creatures who are at the mercy of humans.
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For My Girls
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
I empower women by portraying them with power, determination and focus. Many of my images feature women in confident poses, taken from a heroic angle. In For My Girls, I explore how 1990s female hip-hop artists inspired me to be proud of my African-American lineage, unapologetic for my liberated behavior and forceful in my approach to the culture at large.
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Humans in Exile
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
When war broke out in South Sudan in December 2013, hundreds of thousands of people fled to the unknown in neighboring countries. By April 2016, more than 280,000 people had taken shelter in refugee camps in Western Ethiopia. The majority are women and children.
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If This is True… 8,000 Miles on a Motorcycle in the USA
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
“I do not want to go back – no launch parties or openings anymore. Wearing the same pair of jeans every day, feeling the sun on my skin and deciding whether I will stay or go on the day itself. I also love that everything I own here fits into two saddle bags and a backpack.”
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It Takes Us: Stories of gun violence from across America
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
Over the past few years, I’ve been traveling the country to tell a diverse story about the impact of gun violence on injured survivors, victims’ family members, and witnesses to these horrific acts. I seek to show how gun violence doesn’t fit neatly into the “good guys vs. bad guys” narrative of the media and the NRA. Rather it is far more nuanced — made up overwhelmingly of incidents of suicide, domestic violence, children gaining access to unsecured guns, mass shootings and so much more.
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Laura Pannack
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
How long do we have on this world? If you could live forever, would you?
Intrigued by the fragility of life, I decided to embark on a quest to explore these questions. The project doesn’t seek to answer these questions or even address them, but to ponder them.
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Lucha Libre
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
A Mark Mann portrait is a search for honesty. Adept at digital photography, Mann respects the grace inherent in the analog process. Relying on observation, patience and synchronicity he works with a perfect accomplice – his 1940’s Graflex super D camera fitted with a 1920’s Schneider lens.
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Performing Statistics
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
Performing Statistics connects incarcerated teens in Richmond, Virginia with artists, advocates, police departments, and many others to create public art and advocacy projects that help transform Virginia’s juvenile justice system.
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Political Theatre
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
I want to pull back the curtain and show these politicians as they really are. Even though they are in plain sight, they can hide behind words and carefully arranged imagery to project their vision of America. I am using my camera to cut through the staging of these moments and reveal the cold, naked ambition for power.
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Texting Syria
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
Texting Syria is an installation exploring the experience of Syrian refugees in the context of connectivity in the digital age. In these portraits, Syrians in Lebanon fleeing the civil war back home use mobile phones to stay in touch with their families who remain under siege in the city of Homs. A mundane and ubiquitous act — checking or sending a text message — is transformed by war into communiqués that can be a matter of life and death.
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The Curated Fridge
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
The Curated Fridge goes on a road trip to Photoville 2016 with Aline Smithson at the wheel!
Isn’t this exciting? Your images will be curated by Aline Smithson, one of the most important figures in the photographic world and, once selected, your prints will be viewed by thousands of visitors in Photoville 2016!
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Where Will We Go: The Human Consequences of Rising Sea Levels
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
For two years, I have been looking at the global consequences of rising sea levels caused by climate change. Today, no one doubts that glaciers the world over are retreating and, even more worryingly, that Greenland and Antarctica are melting at an increasing pace. The question: how fast ?
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#OrlandoStrong
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
Photographer Wayne Lawrence is known for his sensitive and intimate portraits of Americans of every class, race, and creed. Lawrence spent a week in Orlando gathering the stories of a community that has been battered but not defeated. This story was a digital feature for National Geographic in June 2016.
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All Access/Ringside Pass
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
This project reflects the combat sports and fighters I have photographed since the beginning of this journey. From training camp, to the actual fight, and portraits immortalizing these unique athletes, my goal is to give people an inside view of how boxing and mixed martial art fighters interact in their respective worlds, away from the limelight.
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FEARLESS: Portraits of LGBT Student Athletes
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
For 13 years, American artist Jeff Sheng has been photographing lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) student athletes in the United States and Canada as part of a photo and exhibition series called FEARLESS.
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Looking for Marshall McLuhan in Afghanistan: From Smartphone to Palladium
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
In 2011, Rita Leistner embedded with U.S. Marines in Afghanistan as a team member of the experimental social media initiative Basetrack, which used social media and smartphones to report on the war.
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A Peaceful Rebellion, The Faces of Dissent in Burma
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
Photographer Chris Bartlett and journalist Delphine Schrank, author of The Rebel of Rangoon; A Tale of Defiance and Deliverance in Burma (Nation Books, July 2015), combine the ineffable image with the poetry of language to convey the hidden and very human experience of dissidence: of a social movement, until now largely closed from the eyes of the world, whose members dared across five decades of brutally repressive military rule to wrest their country back and deliver it to freedom and democracy.
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SKATEBOARDING.3D
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
For almost three years Sebastian Denz has been traveling across Europe to shoot a series of 3D photographs with more than 20 members of the carhartt skateboard team. The result of his work is a series of spatial photographs in a quality never seen before.
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The Mash-Up
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
The Mash Up: In celebration of the Photoville opening night show, Down & Dirty, the UPI team are double-stacking two containers where photographer and curator Janette Beckman has invited celebrated street artists Cey Adams and Queen Andrea to “mash-up” two of her iconic music images larger than life.
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Historias del Paraíso
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
By using out-of-this-time and out-of-context elements I aim to sensitize the audience into caring for the planet and reflecting on the world that we shall leave behind to future generations. Through the conventions of staged photography I present a series of images based on the cycle of life.
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Cadets
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
What do marching in formation, doing push-ups, shining uniform buttons, firing air rifles and addressing each other with “Sergeant” or “Captain” do for young people? Does it help them to cope with the challenges life throws at them, at home and in school?
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When Living Is a Protest
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
Sixty years ago, just marching was considered an act of protest. Actually, in 1969, a group of young men burnt down 40 buildings in the town of Clinton South Carolina, after feeling that the pressure put on them by the Ku Klux Klan was too much to bear. That was their protest.
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Blast Force Survivors
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
“I got blown up.” That’s what they say. “I was right there in the blast seat.”
Blast force—the signature injury of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan—creates a pressure so powerful it can be seen before it is heard or felt.
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Red Ball of a Sun Slipping Down
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
Red Ball of a Sun Slipping Down speaks of life in the Arkansas Delta forty years go and today. Black-and-white photographs made long years ago are interwoven with recent color photographs and, in turn, with a short story.
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Laws of Silence
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
“When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don’t work. It’s like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. ” – Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Neither Here Nor There
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
Neither Here Nor There is the story of Blanca, a young undocumented woman, who grew up picking grapes in the fields of the San Joaquin Valley, struggling to redefine herself as more than just an immigrant, a struggle brought about by legislation and geography.
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For Tropical Girls Who Have Considered Ethnogenesis When the Native Sun is Remote
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
Using 19th century ethnographic photographs as a point of departure, “For Tropical Girls Who Have Considered Ethnogenesis When the Native Sun is Remote” presents fantastical self portraits that question identity constructs and the psychological implications of iconography.
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Welcome to Dilley
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
Dilley, Texas, best known at one point as the unofficial watermelon capital of the country —“come get a slice of the good life,” the slogan went — is a town of 4,000, an hour south of San Antonio. A sprawling, rural community in Southern Texas, its residents are currently enjoying the second oil boom in as many decades.
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The Disturbing Beauty of Sphynx Cats
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
Hairless cats are odd, rare and definitely not known for being ‘beautiful’. I am drawn to their alien looks. There’s something disturbing yet eerie that astonishes me every time I look at one of them. In this body of work I explore the beauty of the Sphinx within that oddity.
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You Are You
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
You Are You documents an annual weekend summer camp for gender non-conforming children and their families. This camp offers a temporary safe haven where children can freely express their interpretations of gender alongside their parents and siblings without feeling the need to look over their shoulders.
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Dark Heights
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
My client, Harper’s Magazine, asked me to cover the Olympics in a unique way, to visualize the games in a way others weren’t. Much of that involved me trying to spy new angles, to see the sports and athletes as compositional elements, to see their movements less as competition and more as a grand ballet. It was a brilliantly creative practice that I am honored to have been awarded.
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The Geography of Youth
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
In the spring of 2013 we opened The Geography of Youth to online submissions. We invited people born between 1980 and 1995 to upload a self-portrait and answer the same twelve interview questions that we asked hundreds of Millennials around the world.
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Body Imaging
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
Body Imaging morphs a physician’s office into a photo studio where the real overlaps with the faux, the border between public and private becomes porous, investigation couples with intimacy, notions of service collide with exchange, and the humorous mingles with the serious.
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Photo Stand-Ins
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
We are so honored to have been able to access the amazing and diverse image archive of Photos.com* to create these photo stand-ins you see dispersed throughout the Photoville grounds. So step up and get your photo taken, and let’s rock n’ roll!
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Mimage-Matic Features
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
The Yellow Trailer Art Gallery is Ed Kimball’s transportable cinema trailer and serves as a mobile art installation platform that has recently featured super 8 motion pictures and digital video projections.
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Residual Images
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
A collection of photographs by FDNY firefighter Michael Redpath who documented the recovery of Ground Zero after September 11th, 2001 which were transformed a decade later by the murky flood water of Hurricane Sandy, fossilizing the two tragic events in his negatives.
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How Can I Help? – An Artful Dialogue
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
Artists offer sincere and creative interpretations of psychotherapeutic consultation in a pop-up psychotherapy office and photography gallery. Visitors are encouraged to drop-in or schedule a free 15-minute “initial intake” session, during which they may discuss any topic in complete confidence.
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Iraqi Detainees: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Ordeals
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
The individuals shown in these portraits are Iraqis who were detained by the United States military and its surrogates. All were tortured and abused, and all were released without being charged. The portraits were taken in 2006 in Amman, Jordan and 2007 in Istanbul.
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Köprüaltı
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
In the summer of 2013, two photographers, Jake Price and Emine Gozde Sevim, independently from each other found themselves in the same place: Gezi Park in Istanbul and its vicinity during the 18 days of protests that shook prime minister Erdogan’s eleven year old regime as never seen before.
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Living with Mies
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
Living with Mies is a series of portraits of residents in their living rooms in the Lafayette Park neighborhood of downtown Detroit, home to the largest collection of Mies van der Rohe-designed buildings in the world.
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Red Hook: A Journey Through Our Lens
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
This spring, 15 young people from neighborhoods across Brooklyn were able to participate in a digital photography internship that taught a documentary style of photography focused on issues related to their neighborhoods and self-exploration. The goals of this program were to empower participants, develop their personal voice as artists, and teach them to harness the power of visual storytelling.
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Secrets & Lies
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
As Europe and America are engulfed in the greatest crisis of mutual trust since WWII, as a result of the recent inter-spying revelations, secrets and lies seem to be assuming an ever more crucial character in public life.
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Testament
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
Testament is a collection of photographs and writing by late photojournalist Chris Hondros spanning over a decade of coverage from most of the world’s conflicts since the late 1990s, including Kosovo, Afghanistan, the West Bank, Iraq, Liberia, Egypt, and Libya.
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Aaj Tak
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
Aaj Tak, by Linka Odom, is an outdoor photographic light box installation that takes the viewer on a visual journey through modern India – Aaj Tak loosely translates as ‘til today’ in the Hindi language.
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CanberraVille
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
Canberra Lab is the actualisation of a latent desire of a group of young architects and designers to establish a discourse within Canberra’s design community. Through building platforms to critique, discuss and discover Canberra’s built environment Canberra Lab fosters an exoteric dialogue between architecture, design and art.
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501 Photographs
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
“I’ve been taking photographs since I was in high school. I’ve got a terrible memory and a tendency towards voyeurism. I was also born with a mild binocular vision disorder which means that essentially I have no depth perception and see the world mostly flat, like a photograph. But that’s not really important.”
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Ocean Beach
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
As a photographer Douglas is interested in the cottages still showing signs of a bygone era when wood paneling, vibrant colors, and kitsch decorations were the order of the day. He always felt it was a race against time to visually preserve the cottages. That was based on the rapid pace of cottages being renovated and modernized to attract more potential vacationers on the competitive rental market.
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How Sandy Hit Rockaway
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
Almost a year after Hurricane Sandy hit the coastal areas of New York and New Jersey, the road to recovery is still long and hard. With so many images in the mass media depicting landscapes of devastation and disaster immediately after Hurricane Sandy, How Sandy Hit Rockaway focuses on the people affected by the disaster and the unique obstacles to recovery facing each individual.
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Only in Burundi
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
The past two years photographer Anaïs López and writer Eva Smallegange worked on this project and eventually succeeded in making a new book about Burundi: a book with a positive outlook, containing personal stories of Koky, their guide and the main narrator.
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Captive
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
“Captive” is a photo series documenting zoo animals in their un-natural environment. Gaston Lacombe has been gathering photos from zoos all around the world since 2009. This body of work currently represents 16 zoos, in 9 countries, on 5 continents and constantly keeps growing as he visits more zoos.
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Perspectives
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
This summer, 38 young people from the Brooklyn neighborhoods of Brownsville and Red Hook were able to participate in PhotoVoice, a participatory photography program that teaches a documentary style of photography focused on issues related to their neighborhoods and self-exploration. The goals of this program are to empower participants, inform policy-makers, and raise awareness about issues facing these young people.
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Documenting the Build of Brooklyn Bridge Park
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
Julienne Schaer’s photos of the build of the Brooklyn Bridge Park comprise a visual documentary that illustrates the transformation of Brooklyn’s industrial waterfront into a world-class park.
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The Depository of Unwanted Photographs
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
We create and circulate millions of images every week. Many of these never exist beyond digital formats; stuck in our phones or transferred to computers on their way to social media sites. We are constantly employing choices, consciously and subconsciously, to share or overlook images. If we accept the mantra that ‘we are all photographers’ then aren’t we all photo-editors too?
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West 13th Street Manhattan: A City’s Heartbeat
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
In Koek’s City’s Heartbeat you are forced to move your eyes, to be a film projector of his untruthful moment in time. Like in a 19th century panorama painting experiencing, an event in motion. Creating the illusion of a fluid passage of a stretch of time. Embracing happenings in the past, the present and the future’s promise. Seemingly without a beginning and an end.
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Mimage-Matic Features
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
Ed Kimball’s movie installation explores a series of paradoxically juxtaposed 8mm and super 8 home movies that form a mysterious fusion of simultaneous projections in and around his reconstructed utility trailer that he calls YellowTAG. His installation offers ironic twists that culminate in a clash of both accident and intent in a surreal motion picture experience.
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Photographic Orchard with Cherry Blossom Trees
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
In 2012 United Photo Industries commissioned Gardener André Feliciano to cultivate a Camera Greenhouse which captivated young and old and was a hit of PHOTOVILLE last year!
This year – we gave Andre an assignment: Impress us even more! And boy, has he!
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Manezh Square
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 5 Uplands
MANEZH SQUARE is a 3D Photo-Composite constructed from Hi-8mm video still frames. The original material is a continuous 20-minute recording of a massive demonstration (supporting political and economic reforms) in Manezh Square, Moscow, in September, 1990.
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Raskols: The Gangs of Papua New Guinea
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 3
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.
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Routine Crusher
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 3
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.
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Phoot Camp 2012
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 3
“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.
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Becoming Visible
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 3
In “Becoming Visible,” Josh Lehrer has created a portrait series of homeless transgender teens using platinum and palladium printing techniques.
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Between Destinations
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 3
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.
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Random Interference
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 3
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.
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Dying Breed: Photos of Bedford Stuyvesant
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 3
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.
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Andre Feliciano’s Greenhouse
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 3
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.
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Elliniko
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 3
“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.
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THE FENCE at Photoville
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 3
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!
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Sep
222019
Behind-the-Scenes Tour of Photoville with UPI Special Projects Producer Krystal Grow
Join United Photo Industries Special Projects Producer Krystal Grow for a behind-the-scenes tour of Photoville, featuring guest appearances by members of the Photoville team.
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Sep
212019
The Photoville Family Funtime Tour
Join Photoville Co-founder Laura Roumanos and her daughter Violet for a family-friendly walking tour.
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Sep
212019
The Mini Mash Up
Join us for an afternoon of learning how to draw and collage with artist Cey Adams using the iconic images of Hip-Hop legends made by photographer Janette Beckman! All Ages Welcome!
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Sep
152019
On Feeling Good: In Conversation with Dr. Deborah Willis and Tyler Mitchell
Join Dr. Deb Willis, Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, as she interviews photographer Tyler Mitchell, New York University Tisch School of the Arts Film & Television alum. They will discuss his first solo exhibition, I Can Make You Feel Good, and their collective body of work.
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Sep
152019
An Afternoon with Lynsey Addario and John Moore
Join us as two celebrated photojournalists sit down for a conversation about their impactful work traversing the globe, from the current humanitarian crises in Syria, to immigrant crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border during the Trump administration.
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Sep
142019
Walk This Way
Join Vikki Tobak, author of Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop, as she interviews April Walker, lifestyle entrepreneur, author, health/wellness advocate, and creator of one of the first urban fashion brands, WalkerWear.
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Sep
132019
OPENING NIGHT: FOR FREEDOMS TOWN HALL featuring the Resistance Revival Chorus
Featuring: For Freedoms, Resistance Revival Chorus
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May
52019
Behind-the-Scenes Walking Tour with Katie Hollander and Laura Roumanos
Join Laura Roumanos and Katie Hollander for a behind-the-scenes tour of Photoville, featuring guest appearances by members of the team including the master behind all the container stacking and logistics!
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May
22019
An Evening with Lynsey Addario & John Moore
Join us as two celebrated Photojournalists sit down for a conversation about their impactful work traversing the globe from the current humanitarian crises in Syria to U.S. Mexico immigrant crossings during the Trump administration.
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Apr
282019
On-stage with Ricky Powell
Join us at Photoville LA where we celebrate legendary New York street photographer Ricky Powell for a intimate conversation about his iconic images from the Golden Era of hip-hop.
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Apr
272019
East Side Stories: Journey towards Justice, Past and Present
Join Joseph Rodríguez, Ruben Martinez, Dr. Jesse De La Cruz, and Rubén Martínez for a powerful educational discussion on gang violence, juvenile justice and re-entry into Los Angeles communities.
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Apr
272019
MashUp: A Family Workshop Hosted by Artist Cey Adams and Photographer Janette Beckman
Join us for an afternoon of learning how to draw and collage with artist Cey Adams using the iconic images of Hip-Hop legends made by photographer Janette Beckman!
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Sep
222018
On Assignment: Fashion Photography in the Real World
Develop skills and confidence on set through productive teamwork and dedicated feedback sessions, and discover what it takes to make it in fashion photography today.
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Sep
162018
Inspired Live at Photoville
Join us for a fast-paced presentation by a unique group of cross-disciplined Photoville artists as they reveal their sources of creativity.
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Sep
162018
DUMBO at Dusk: A Low-light Twilight Photography Workshop
In partnership with the International Center of Photography (ICP), and taught by award-winning and internationally exhibited photographer Lynn Saville, this four hour photography workshop introduces students to the fundamentals of taking photographs at twilight.
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Sep
162018
Place Makers: A Tabletop Styling and Photography Workshop
Build a photo-worthy place setting from the ground up with the guidance of tabletop and prop stylist Robin Zachary, and photographer and food stylist Kate Lewis, against the added bonus of a West Elm backdrop.
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Sep
152018
Game Changers: A Sports Photography Workshop
Improve your sports photography by learning the techniques used by top sports photographers to capture peak action and images with emotion.
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Sep
152018
Chance Encounters and Public Places: A Street Photography Workshop
Join Meryl Meisler and Tequila Minsky for an afternoon of exploring and practicing street photography.
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Sep
142018
Postcards from Brownsville: Photographing Community
Students will present their collaborative project, “Postcards from Brownsville” and discuss how their photographs can impact insider and outside perceptions of their community.
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Sep
232017
Women Photograph + ONA Workshop
This inaugural one-day workshop for female and non-binary photographers by the new Women Photograph initiative will involve skills-building talks on a wide array of issues ranging from the importance of registering your copyright to hands-on technical demonstrations on lighting. Experts will also be on hand for one-on-one sessions on book editing, grant proposal writing, portfolio reviews, and more.
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Sep
172017
Game Changers: A Sports Photography Workshop
Led by Getty Images Staff photographer Elsa Garrison and ESPN Senior Photo Editor Julianne Varacchi, students will have an opportunity to not only shoot live and on location, but to gain feedback and advice from successful photographers and editors working in the wide world of sports.
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Sep
162017
Reading the Pictures: Pete Souza and Michael Shaw in Conversation
Pete Souza is the former Chief Official White House Photographer for President Ronald Reagan and President Barack Obama, and the former director of the White House Photography Office. Michael Shaw is the publisher of the nonprofit organization, Reading the Pictures.
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Sep
162017
Soul Seekers: A No Frills Portraiture Workshop
In this no-nonsense approach to classic portraiture, photographer Josh Lehrer will cover the main principles of portrait photography, including the four basic angles of lighting.
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Sep
252016
The Beauty of Uncertainty — A Street Photography Workshop
Photojournalism is not simply the act of taking pictures, but a way of demanding more from life, and in this workshop, award-winning photojournalist Spencer Platt will guide students through the art and practice of street photography.
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Sep
252016
Diverse Voices in the Media
With this panel discussion, we aim to provide the audience with a better understanding of how and why the lack of diverse voices in the media leads to “outsiders” being tasked with documenting communities other than their own.
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Sep
172016
Flower Power Dog Adoption
Some of Sophie Gamand’s models from the Flower Power exhibition are still available for adoption and will make special appearances throughout the weekend, from agencies including DAWS (Danbury Animal Welfare Society), Beastly Rescue, Animal Haven, Redemption Rescue, Mr Bones & Co and more!
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Sep
292013
Photography Shaping Communities
In this panel, students from the program in Brownsville and Red Hook will present their photographs from the summer followed by a conversation about participatory photography, and ways that photography can be used to address social justice issues in the community.
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Sep
192013
Opening of Photoville 2013
Join us for Photoville’s opening celebration!
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Jun
292012
Nighttime Projection: Photos from the Fence
A presentation of juror highlights from The Fence, UPI’s summer-long outdoor photo exhibition exploring the multi-faceted theme of ‘community.’
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