Photoville

Todd Heisler

Todd Heisler

Todd Heisler is a staff photographer for The New York Times and a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner. He covers everything from politics and breaking news to daily life in New York City and beyond, always aiming to take a deeper look at issues and communities.

Current Exhibitions Featuring Todd Heisler

Inside New York’s Migrant Shelters: Fear, Joy, and Hope

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 coming soon

New York City has spent over $6 billion since 2022 to shelter people arriving from the US-Mexico border. More than 225,000 migrants have lived in shelters that became a tapestry of cultures, blending into the city while living mostly out of sight. But inside the shelters, life has flourished.

Learn More

Archive Exhibitions Featuring Todd Heisler

Essential, But No Guarantees

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Empire Fulton Ferry Lawn
 archive : 2021

The service industry jobs that keep New York City’s heart ticking took a huge hit during the pandemic, leaving many people struggling. Meet some of those workers.

Learn More

A Persisting Witness

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2019

A Persisting Witness hopes to show the vital role photojournalists play in securing our access to stories that might otherwise go unnoticed or unreported, and often at great personal risk.

Learn More

Testament

Annenberg Space for Photography
 archive : Photoville LA

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.

Learn More

A Way Home

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2018

“A Way Home” brings to light the ways in which communities across the globe define ‘home’. Through a compassionate and telling lens, these photojournalists examine the effects that migration, conflict, political strife and humanitarian crises inflict on individuals’ concepts of home.

Learn More

Unseen Venezuela

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2017

From the rise of Hugo Chávez’s socialist revolution to its collapse into the worst economic crisis in the history of Venezuela, photojournalist Meridith Kohut has chronicled the plight of Venezuelans for the past decade.

Learn More

Family: Bringing a shared sense of humanity into the public eye

Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
 archive : 2016

This exhibit reflects on the work of photojournalists who bring to light shared human experiences. Through the lens of family, we’ve asked the photographers to share images that reflect the concept of family from their work in documenting some of the most important news stories of our times.

Learn More

Archive Sessions and Events Featuring Todd Heisler

Oct 22020

An Evening with The New York Times

New York Times photographers and editors will share highlights from their coverage of some of the year’s most visually compelling stories. Some of the photographers and editors who created Sources of Self-Regard: Self-Portraits From Black Photographers Reflecting on America will discuss their work.

Learn More
Sep 282014

BagNewsSalon: Reading Key News Photos of 2014

Our distinguished Photoville panel will discuss ten key images that have appeared in 2014, including photos by Todd Heisler on immigration on “The Way North,” and Mario Tama on his extensive coverage of Brazil and the World Cup.

Learn More
Sep 272014

Testament: Chris Hondros

Directors of the Chris Hondros Fund and co-editors of Testament, a collection of Hondros’s writing and photography which was published this year will discuss Hondros’s life and work.

Learn More

This website was made possible thanks to the generous support and partnership of Photowings