Victoria Munro is the Executive Director of the Alice Austen House, a nationally designated site of LGBTQ+ history and the only museum in America to represent the work of a solo woman photographer, Alice Austen (1866-1952). Victoria is an Art and Art History Educator, Maker and Photographic Curator. Victoria consults and speaks on LGBTQ+ curriculum development and historical and current LGBTQ+ interpretations in public and private institutions. Victoria is the Board President of the Museums Council of New York City and serves on the Executive Board of Historic Artists Homes and Studios.
All the Dreamers is a collection of candid portraits made on board the Staten Island Ferry between 2014 to 2022. Its images depict ferry riders in moments of repose and respite during an anxious time for the city, nation and world
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Jade Doskowʼs large-scale photographs of the iconic New York landfill-turned-park Freshkills make clear itsʼ paradoxical, ethereal beauty, while creating an important archive of a major chapter within the story of New York Cityʼs infrastructure.
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Nathan Kensinger’s work explores hidden urban landscapes, post-industrial ecologies, forgotten waterways, environmental contamination, and coastal communities endangered by sea level rise and climate change. His work encompasses photography, film, installation, curation and writing.
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The images that I make are drawn from my daily experiences and made in an intuitive and spontaneous manner. I am drawn to personal portraits, evocative gestures, and the small details in someone or something that I can use to make a visual statement on the world-at-large.
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Gerard Franciosa (b.Queens, NY 1967) has been photographing for over 30 years. He is drawn to particular places, landscapes that reveal a personality and emit a force that excites him, scares him or gives him solace. His photographs index disturbances, both visual and perceived, caused by light, form and the geometry of chaos and stillness.
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Presented by The Alice Austen House and NYC Parks
Samuel Partal makes photographs of the post-natural landscape. He lives and works in Staten Island, New York.
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Presented by The Alice Austen House and NYC Parks
Thomas Giarraffa tells stories with his photography, creating surreal environments to comment on his past and the world he inhabits.
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Presented by The Alice Austen House and NYC Parks
A group exhibition of eight Staten Island-based photographers curated by the Alice Austen House.
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Presented by The Alice Austen House and NYC Parks
Having grown up on Staten Island, David Lê uses its urban fabric as a backdrop for his Maiden Name Spring-Summer 2022 lookbook.
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Presented 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.
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Presented 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.
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Alice Austen House presents Saved by Grace, an ongoing project by Nataki Hewling documenting senior Black men. This visual story sends the message that our communities need Black male elders to nourish our ecosystems. We need to go the distance to protect their lives.
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The Alice Austen House presents New York City-based Mexican-American photographer Irma Bohórquez-Geisler’s series documenting the daily life within the local Mexican-American and Mexican-immigrant communities from within New York City—with a focus on Staten Island.
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Alice Austen House presents Gale Wisdom, botanical photograms.
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