Photoville

Today was truly a success. Thank you to each and every attendee for joining us today, making it even more special than we could have ever imagined. This space was created for YOU, and YOU brought it to life.

To this INCREDIBLE group of Black women photographers: symposium curators, and of joined by , .nance, , , , , , , , , , and ✨each of you are so incredibly special to ALL of us. Thank you for continuing to leave the doors open for the current & next generation to shake it up in our photo community! We appreciate you, and we value you.

And thank you to , , and for supporting us in bringing this vision to life 🫶📸.

Stay tuned as we release must-see videos and recap footage from today 👀 ✨!

Join us today at for the 2024 MFON Global Symposium: Presence and Preservation, curated by and !

✨ There are still spots left to come by and join in this inspiring and empowering day with a series of panel discussions, featuring scholars, artists, curators and centered around archiving and elevating the voices of women and non-binary of photographers of African descent, as part of Photoville’s annual Festival in New York City.

⏰ 10am - 5pm
📍 66 W 12th St, New York, NY 10011

Free and open to the public!

🌧️ 📸 Due to inclement weather in Brooklyn, our container exhibits will be closed early today. The safety and well-being of every PhotoVillager is important to us!

Hoping for clear skies (see photo 🥹), and we will see you all this weekend for the LAST and FINAL weekend of the 2024 Photoville Festival in !

Stay dry folks ☔️!

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‘Success in Our Sights: 5 Years of Imagemaking’ showcases work by members of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County under the mentorship of Andrea Sarcos, who is creating the next generation of storytellers by empowering students to use photography to share their personal and cultural narratives.

📸 Onivya A., Jarriyas A., Brianna B., Willie B., Za’Myra B., Ja’Nya B., Mya C., Nyomi D., Gerarna F., Ayanna G., Tavon H., Jerriah J., Jada L., Brielle M., Makayla M., Ackayla P., Johnny P., Neilla P., Star R., Tvare S., Xastny T., Ben-Chris Y.
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📸 Featured photos by Tavon H. and Jerriah J.

🔗 Link in bio to preview more of ‘Success in Our Sights: 5 Years of Imagemaking’, as well as all the 87+ public exhibits up throughout NYC this summer!⁠
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 📍 Brooklyn Bridge Park
⬛ Presented by The Boys & Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County () and Photoville, in partnership with
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 📅 June 1 – 16, 2024
📍 87+ exhibitions across all 5 boroughs + IRL & online public programming
✨ Link in bio to learn more!

Thanks to the Marquee Partners: , , , , , , , and .

‘Portraits of Resilience in Red Hook’ is an intergenerational photo portrait initiative intertwining personal narratives and innovative technology to foster community empowerment and understanding for an intergenerational collaboration.

📸 Red Hook Art Project Student Artists: Xiah, Mi’Kenya, Noah, Lena, Summer, Isabella, Shardonay, Erika
Red Hook Community Leaders: Juana, Valerie, Guadalupe, Karen, Nahisha, Joyce, Betty,
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🔗 Link in bio to preview more of ‘Portraits of Resilience in Red Hook’, as well as all the 87+ public exhibits up throughout NYC this summer!⁠
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 📍 Brooklyn Bridge Park
⬛ Presented by Red Hook Art Project () and Photoville in partnership with .
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 📅 June 1 – 16, 2024
📍 87+ exhibitions across all 5 boroughs + IRL & online public programming
✨ Link in bio to learn more!

Thanks to the Marquee Partners: , , , , , , , and .

Join us tomorrow for the last workshop a part of the ‘DEEP DIVE’ series! Presented by and Photoville, and supported by , the remaining panel discussion will cover the intricacies of long-term story creation.

✨ Tomorrow, we’ll be joined by Maíra Erlich , Brian L. Frank , and Smita Sharma as they cover the many ways in which photographers take a long-term story from idea to completion!

🔗Link in bio to learn more and reserve your spot!
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 📅 June 1 – 16, 2024
📍 87+ exhibitions across all 5 boroughs + IRL & online public programming
✨ Link in bio to learn more!

Thanks to the Marquee Partners: , , , , , , , and .

Students from explored surrealism through digital collage, delving into the subconscious and absurd. They questioned reality, symbolism, and emotions, creating captivating artworks. Peer feedback and artist statements fostered reflection, pushing creativity boundaries.

📸 Anastacia Kuchuk, Anatole Tober, Arlo Shapiro, Asha Sankaran, Donovan Turnacioglu, Fiebe Standaert, Gianna Galluzzi, Janai Snagg, Kareem McLeod, Kingston Yu, Laiken Bennett, Lev Feldsher, Liam Enriquez, Mahaut Dumesnil, Misha Pak, Nicole Krieger, Oliver Lenovitz, Samirah Horton, Sebastian Abimerhi, Sofia Doucette, Tais Soto Vaca, Yehor Hrytseniuk, ‘Exploring the Surreal: Digital Collage as a Medium for Self-Expression and Subconscious Exploration’
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📸 Featured images by Kingston Yu and Mahaut Dumesnil

🔗 Link in bio to preview more of ‘Exploring the Surreal: Digital Collage as a Medium for Self-Expression and Subconscious Exploration’, as well as all the 87+ public exhibits up throughout NYC this summer!⁠
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 📍 Brooklyn Bridge Park
⬛ Presented by Léman Manhattan Preparatory School () and Photoville, in partnership with as a 2024 Educator Grantee
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 📅 June 1 – 16, 2024
📍 87+ exhibitions across all 5 boroughs + IRL & online public programming
✨ Link in bio to learn more!

Thanks to the Marquee Partners: , , , , , , , and .

The Photoville Festival had a very special visit yesterday from x Photoville Educator grantee, .novak, exhibition artists Katie Medicine Bull and Lily Blossom!

Their project, ‘RezMade: Photographs by student photographers from Our Community Record Two Eagle River School’, is a collection of current work by student photographers from the all-Tribal Our Community Record Two Eagle River School, Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes, in collaboration with .

Thank you for making this trip all the way from Montana to see in person the incredible work of your students, and the reach this beautiful and dynamic project has in !
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🔗 Link in bio to preview more of ‘RezMade: Photographs by student photographers from Our Community Record Two Eagle River School’, as well as all the 87+ public exhibits up throughout NYC this summer!⁠
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 📍 Brooklyn Bridge Park
⬛ Presented by A VOICE and Photoville, in partnership with
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 📅 June 1 – 16, 2024
📍 87+ exhibitions across all 5 boroughs + IRL & online public programming
✨ Link in bio to learn more!

Thanks to the Marquee Partners: , , , , , , , and .

Obidigbo Nzeribe imbues his portraiture with the fleeting feeling of summer. As a fashion photographer, he pushes the edges of creativity through collaboration in set design and experimentation with generative AI tools. This series is a snapshot of his creative range and an introduction to the Content Credentials technology empowering artists to get proper attribution and build trust with their audience.

📸 Obidigbo Nzeribe (), ‘I Hope Summer Never Ends’
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🔗 Link in bio to preview more of ‘I Hope Summer Never Ends’, as well as all the 87+ public exhibits up throughout NYC this summer!⁠
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 📍 Brooklyn Bridge Park
⬛ Presented by Adobe Photoshop Lightroom ()
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 📅 June 1 – 16, 2024
📍 87+ exhibitions across all 5 boroughs + IRL & online public programming
✨ Link in bio to learn more!

Thanks to the Marquee Partners: , , , , , , , and .

Join us tomorrow for the second workshop a part of the ‘DEEP DIVE’ series! Presented by and Photoville, and supported by , the remaining panel discussions will cover the intricacies of long-term story creation; and the strategies for working better with communities that have experienced trauma.

✨ Tomorrow, we’ll be joined by Ryan Christopher Jones , ACSW Tamara Knox and Ed Ou as they lead a discussion of ‘Trauma-Informed Photography’, and how to take the opportunity to do better when working with people that have experienced trauma when documenting their stories.

🔗Link in bio to learn more and reserve your spot!
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 📅 June 1 – 16, 2024
📍 87+ exhibitions across all 5 boroughs + IRL & online public programming
✨ Link in bio to learn more!

Thanks to the Marquee Partners: , , , , , , , and .

Material, by the artist Elizabeth Casasola, won Best Latam Women’s Project 2023 in Enfoque – Conecta Internationalization Platform and Network for Latin American Photography, Bogotá International Festival, Latin American Photography Foundation. It was also exhibited in the Second Javier Ramírez Limón Photography Contest at the Museo de Arte de Sonora.

📸 Elizabeth Casasola (), ‘Material’
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🔗 Link in bio to preview more of ‘Material’, as well as all the 87+ public exhibits up throughout NYC this summer!⁠
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 📍 Brooklyn Bridge Park
⬛ Presented by Photoville
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 📅 June 1 – 16, 2024
📍 87+ exhibitions across all 5 boroughs + IRL & online public programming
✨ Link in bio to learn more!

Thanks to the Marquee Partners: , , , , , , , and .

WITNESS explores the intersectional vantage point of the Black femme-identifying artist—inviting the viewer to bear witness to what they may not otherwise see on their own.

📸 Liam Woods, Deun Ivory, Cara Elise Taylor, Gabrielle Morse, Dee Williams, Amber Evangelista, Amandla Baraka, Alexis Hunley, Lelanie Foster, and Laila Stevens, ‘WITNESS’

Featured photos by Dee Williams () and Deun Ivory ().
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🔗 Link in bio to preview more of ‘WITNESS’, as well as all the 87+ public exhibits up throughout NYC this summer!⁠
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 📍 Brooklyn Bridge Park
⬛ Presented by GOOD Mirrors (.mirrors), Black Women Photographers (), WACO Theater Center (), and Photoville
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 📅 June 1 – 16, 2024
📍 87+ exhibitions across all 5 boroughs + IRL & online public programming
✨ Link in bio to learn more!

Thanks to the Marquee Partners: , , , , , , , and .

‘L’dor Vador’ (‘From Generation to Generation’) is a project which captures the coming-of-age experience of Jewish youth through the quintessentially Jewish-American ritual of sleep-away camp.

📸 Rachel Wisniewski (), ‘L’dor Vador’
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🔗 Link in bio to preview more of ‘L’dor Vador’, as well as all the 87+ public exhibits up throughout NYC this summer!⁠
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 📍 Brooklyn Bridge Park
⬛ Presented by Photoville
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 📅 June 1 – 16, 2024
📍 87+ exhibitions across all 5 boroughs + IRL & online public programming
✨ Link in bio to learn more!

Thanks to the Marquee Partners: , , , , , , , and .

Join us tomorrow for the first workshop a part of the ‘DEEP DIVE’ series! Presented by and Photoville, and supported by , these panel discussions will cover the intricacies of long-term story creation; the strategies for working better with communities that have experienced trauma; and the methodology behind journalism that focuses on solutions, not just problems.

✨ Tomorrow, we’ll be joined by Kristin Jae Bethel and Andrea Morales as they lead a discussion of ‘Solutions Photography’, and what it means to create imagery focused on making change.

🔗Link in bio to learn more and reserve your spot!
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 📅 June 1 – 16, 2024
📍 87+ exhibitions across all 5 boroughs + IRL & online public programming
✨ Link in bio to learn more!

Thanks to the Marquee Partners: , , , , , , , and .

Sara Krulwich, the theater photographer for The New York Times, has created a pictorial encyclopedia of New York City theater. Her visual coverage of that world has grown as legendary as the actors and productions that she photographs.

📸 Sara Krulwich (), ‘Sara Krulwich: Onstage, and Off’
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🔗 Link in bio to preview more of ‘Sara Krulwich: Onstage, and Off’, as well as all the 87+ public exhibits up throughout NYC this summer!⁠
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 📍 Brooklyn Bridge Park
⬛ Presented by The New York Times ()
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 📅 June 1 – 16, 2024
📍 87+ exhibitions across all 5 boroughs + IRL & online public programming
✨ Link in bio to learn more!

Thanks to the Marquee Partners: , , , , , , , and .

“Waha واحة” (oasis in Arabic) is a four-year photographic research project aimed at understanding the complex relationship between people, their environment, and the history of the territories they inhabit.

📸 Seif Kousmate (.kousmate), ‘WAHA واحة’
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🔗 Link in bio to preview more of ‘WAHA واحة’, as well as all the 87+ public exhibits up throughout NYC this summer!⁠
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 📍 Brooklyn Bridge Park
⬛ Presented by Photoville
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 📅 June 1 – 16, 2024
📍 87+ exhibitions across all 5 boroughs + IRL & online public programming
✨ Link in bio to learn more!

Thanks to the Marquee Partners: , , , , , , , and .

‘NPPA Best of Photojournalism 2024’ is a curated selection from winners of NPPA’s annual Best of Photojournalism Competition.

📸 Featured images by Salwan Georges () and Katina Zentz (), ‘NPPA Best of Photojournalism 2024’
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🔗 Link in bio to preview more of ‘NPPA Best of Photojournalism 2024’, as well as all the 87+ public exhibits up throughout NYC this summer!⁠
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 📍 Brooklyn Bridge Park
⬛ Presented by National Press Photographers Association ()
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 📅 June 1 – 16, 2024
📍 87+ exhibitions across all 5 boroughs + IRL & online public programming
✨ Link in bio to learn more!

Thanks to the Marquee Partners: , , , , , , , and .

Lucia Bawot aims to shed light on the lives of Colombian women coffee farmers and pickers, challenging stereotypes and giving voice to those who have been silenced.

📸 Lucia Bawot (), ‘We Belong: Making the Invisible Visible!’
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🔗 Link in bio to preview more of ‘We Belong: Making the Invisible Visible!’, as well as all the 87+ public exhibits up throughout NYC this summer!⁠
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 📍 The Seaport
⬛ Presented by The Seaport () and Photoville
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 📅 June 1 – 16, 2024
📍 87+ exhibitions across all 5 boroughs + IRL & online public programming
✨ Link in bio to learn more!

Thanks to the Marquee Partners: , , , , , , , and .

Bridging generations of rebellion and creativity, this exhibition unites new and old faces of the NYC punk scene through the lens of five photographers across the last five decades. From the 1970’s birth of punk and the peak of iconic east village venue CBGB to the alternative punks of color scene that today flourishes throughout all 5 boroughs, witness the evolution of this raw and unapologetic movement that continues to thrive and transcend boundaries, proving once and for all that punk truly isn’t dead.

📸 Roberta Bayley (), David Godlis (), Bob Gruen (), Destiny Mata (.mata), Ebru Yildiz (), ‘Punk is not dead’

Featured photos by Destiny Mata (.mata) and Ebru Yildiz ().
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🔗 Link in bio to preview more of ‘Punk is not dead’, as well as all the 87+ public exhibits up throughout NYC this summer!⁠
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 📍 The Seaport
⬛ Presented by The Seaport () and Photoville
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 📅 June 1 – 16, 2024
📍 87+ exhibitions across all 5 boroughs + IRL & online public programming
✨ Link in bio to learn more!

Thanks to the Marquee Partners: , , , , , , , and .

1in6by2030 is a multi-year, global visual storytelling project, involving photographers around the world. Launched in 2023 by Ed Kashi , Ilvy Njiokiktjien and Sara Terry , all contributing photographers to the VII Foundation, 1in6 documents an unprecedented era in the history of humankind: by the year 2030, 1 in 6 people in the world will be over the age of 60.

📸 Visit the exhibition page to learn more about each artist (), ‘1in6by2030’

📷 Featured photos by Chiara Negrello () and Ilvy Njiokiktjien ()
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🔗 Link in bio to preview more of ‘1in6by2030’, as well as all the 87+ public exhibits up throughout NYC this summer!⁠
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 📍 Brooklyn Bridge Park
⬛ Presented by
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 📅 June 1 – 16, 2024
📍 87+ exhibitions across all 5 boroughs + IRL & online public programming
✨ Link in bio to learn more!

Thanks to the Marquee Partners: , , , , , , , and .

‘MINJIMENDAN/REMEMBER’ honors the legacy of Nīa MacKnight’s great grandfather John B. McGillis by examining the complexities that McGillis faced as an Anishinaabe man navigating early 20th-century assimilation policies, as well as his devotion to expanding access for his people through acts of self-determination and joy.

📸 Nīa MacKnight (.macknight), ‘MINJIMENDAN/REMEMBER’
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🔗 Link in bio to preview more of ‘MINJIMENDAN/REMEMBER’, as well as all the 87+ public exhibits up throughout NYC this summer!⁠
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 📍 Brooklyn Bridge Park
⬛ Presented by Leica () and Photoville
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 📅 June 1 – 16, 2024
📍 87+ exhibitions across all 5 boroughs + IRL & online public programming
✨ Link in bio to learn more!

Thanks to the Marquee Partners: , , , , , , , and .

“Every time I feel homesick I will cook or bake from one of my mum’s recipes. It transports me back in time, brings back sweet childhood memories, and always comforts my soul...”

📸 Bea Lubas (), ‘From Poland, With Love’
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🔗 Link in bio to preview more of ‘From Poland, With Love’, as well as all the 87+ public exhibits up throughout NYC this summer!⁠
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 📍 Brooklyn Bridge Park
⬛ Presented by Adobe Photoshop Lightroom ()
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 📅 June 1 – 16, 2024
📍 87+ exhibitions across all 5 boroughs + IRL & online public programming
✨ Link in bio to learn more!

Thanks to the Marquee Partners: , , , , , , , and .

‘Vivian Maier: Unseen Work’ sheds new light on Maier’s dense and unique body of work, where street scenes, sidewalk chronicles, portraits, self-portraits, and gestures depict a precise record of the socio-political changes in New York and Chicago in the 1950s.

📸 Vivian Maier, ‘Vivian Maier: Unseen Work’
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🔗 Link in bio to preview more of ‘Vivian Maier: Unseen Work’, as well as all the 87+ public exhibits up throughout NYC this summer!⁠
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 📍 Brooklyn Bridge Park
⬛ Presented by Fotografiska New York (.newyork)
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 📅 June 1 – 16, 2024
📍 87+ exhibitions across all 5 boroughs + IRL & online public programming
✨ Link in bio to learn more!

Thanks to the Marquee Partners: , , , , , , , and .

🎤✨Next week, we have an incredible series of virtual professional development workshops, presented by and Photoville, supported by !

These panel discussions will cover the intricacies of long-term story creation; the strategies for working better with communities that have experienced trauma; and the methodology behind journalism that focuses on solutions, not just problems!

✨ First up, we have Kristin Jae Bethel , Dee Dwyer , and Andrea Morales leading a discussion of ‘Solutions Photography’, and what it means to create imagery focused on making change.

🔗Link in bio to learn more and reserve your spot!
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 📅 June 1 – 16, 2024
📍 87+ exhibitions across all 5 boroughs + IRL & online public programming
✨ Link in bio to learn more!

Thanks to the Marquee Partners: , , , , , , , and .

This Saturday, join , Cornell Migrations, The Worker Institute at , , and the 2024 Photoville Festival for a talk and walking tour with Patricia Campos-Medina and Sol Aramendi , alongside TPS community members as they speak about their experiences within the movement for migrant worker rights, immigrant worker justice, workplace justice, union organizing, and American rights of citizenship!

📅 Saturday June 8th, 12pm
📍 Brooklyn Bridge Park: Emily Warren Roebling Plaza, at the corner of New Dock St and Water St. Check in at the info tent!

🔗 Link in bio for more details.
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 📅 June 1 – 16, 2024
📍 87+ exhibitions across all 5 boroughs + IRL & online public programming
✨ Link in bio to learn more!

Thanks to the Marquee Partners: , , , , , , , and .

Photoville presents a dialogue between two independently created, conceptually entwined projects: Dutch photographers recreate the styles of Rembrandt and his contemporaries with prominent models of color, countering the erasure of non-white people’s historic existence in the Netherlands, while American artist Kennedi Carter combines visual references to European royalty and nobility with contemporary Black aesthetics, exploring ideas of Blackness related to wealth, power, and belonging.

📸 Photographer Kennedi Carter & Curator Jörgen Tjon A Fong, with photographers Humberto Tan, Ahmet Polat, Stacii Samidin and Milette Raats, ‘Perception & Representation: Reframing Modernity’
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🔗 Link in bio to preview more of ‘Perception & Representation: Reframing Modernity’, as well as all the 87+ public exhibits up throughout NYC this summer!⁠
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 📍 Brooklyn Bridge Park
⬛ Presented by Dutch Culture USA/Future 400 () and Photoville
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 📅 June 1 – 16, 2024
📍 85+ exhibitions across all 5 boroughs + IRL & online public programming
✨ Link in bio to learn more!

Thanks to the Marquee Partners: , , , , , , , and .

🎉 Just two more days until we continue the celebration of the incredible 87+ exhibitions on view across NYC! Join us this weekend at as we celebrate 11 artists across 7 dynamic exhibitions currently on view at South Street Seaport:⁠
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⬛ 'Chef' Not 'Cook': The Process to Plate': ⁠
⬛ 'Brand Loyalty: The Hunt for Healthy Food in Northern Canada': ⁠
⬛ 'Daily Bread': ⁠
⬛ 'Leaked Recipes': and Demetria Glace⁠
⬛ 'Punk's Not Dead': , , , .mata, and ⁠
⬛ 'Thank You Please Come Again': ⁠
⬛ 'We Belong: Making The Invisible Visible!': ⁠
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We will be joined by our friends at with a photowalk across the Brooklyn Bridge from the Seaport to Brooklyn Bridge Park exhibitions; a Lumen Printing workshop with ; and family activities with ! See you there 😉⁠
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Photos courtesy of Jane Kratochvil and .⁠
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🔗 Learn more: https://shorturl.at/FmBeb
(P.S. Be sure to RSVP for the lumen printing workshop!)⁠
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📅 June 1 - 16, 2024⁠
📍 85+ exhibitions across all 5 boroughs + IRL & online public programming⁠
✨ Link in bio to learn more!⁠
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Thanks to the Marquee Partners: , , , , , , , and .⁠
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This compilation of work supported by the Pulitzer Center and Diversify Photo explores themes of erasure, injustice, and resilience in the face of climate change—taking viewers to climate-affected communities from the sunny hills of Southern California to fading coastlines in Mexico and melting glaciers in Peru.

📸 Tara Pixley (), Sofia Aldinio (), and Angela Ponce (), ‘Eyewitness: The Shadows of Climate Change’
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🔗 Link in bio to preview more of ‘Eyewitness: The Shadows of Climate Change’, as well as all the 87+ public exhibits up throughout NYC this summer!⁠
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 📍 Brooklyn Bridge Park
⬛ Presented by Diversify Photo () and The Pulitzer Center ()
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 📅 June 1 – 16, 2024
📍 85+ exhibitions across all 5 boroughs + IRL & online public programming
✨ Link in bio to learn more!

Thanks to the Marquee Partners: , , , , , , , and .

We are sending a very special thank you to our Education Program partner, for their continued support in producing the Photoville Education Program! PhotoWings has been committed to investing support and resources into our mission to engage young people and educators through visual storytelling. And this year’s Education Field Trip Days were incredibly special with their support as we collaborated with a diverse range of exhibition artists and photography organizations and engaged schools from across the tri-state area.

✨ Thank you to for believing in the power of visual storytelling for our students!
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📅 June 1 - 16, 2024
📍 85+ exhibitions across all 5 boroughs + IRL & online public programming
✨ Link in bio to learn more!

Thanks to the Marquee Partners: , , , , , , , and .