Photoville

Leora Kahn

Archive Exhibitions Featuring Leora Kahn

Segregation by Design

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2019

Segregation and the City is a photojournalism project that examines the lasting impacts of redlining and segregation across different zip codes in NYC, and lifts up the work of those working to end it.

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I VOTE BECAUSE..

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2018

I VOTE BECAUSE…, legendary photographer Janette Beckman large-scale photographs of citizens paired with their short  statements about why voting is important. We will be taking photos of people at photoville and asking them why they vote!

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(un)Documented

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2017

We also believe that photos and stories can be powerful tools for social justice. With this exhibit, we hope to raise discussions around important and difficult questions on human rights and belonging in the US.

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Broken?

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2016

The exhibit aims to raise difficult questions and provoke conversations about what Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, calls “the most pressing racial justice issue of our time.” Broken? explores the U.S. criminal justice system through photographs and testimonies of formerly incarcerated people and of community leaders working for prison reform.

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