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Photoville Festival

Outreach Spotlight:
Photoville Festival

Photoville (formerly United Photo Industries) amplifies visual storytellers and connects them to a worldwide diverse audience through its free photo festival and year-round activation of public spaces and educational community programming.

Returning for its 12th consecutive year, the annual Photoville Festival is excited to feature the return of our Photoville Village in Brooklyn Bridge Park with some of our classic shipping containers, in addition to open-air exhibitions throughout all five boroughs of New York City.

Our Education and Community partnership, now in its 5th year, includes the Festival’s Education Day with field trips to the Festival stomping grounds in Brooklyn Bridge Park, engaging conversations with professional artists, and a series of lively youth artist panel talks known as the Youth Artist Exchange, all tailored to middle and high school students.

The partnership will also for the 6th year be documenting Photoville talks. It has also supported professional development days for teachers to design curriculum, educator grants, community-building family photography evenings, student photo-field trips, Educator’s Coffee Hours,Teaching Artist Microgrants, and redesign of the Photoville website and archive.

2023 Photoville Artist Talks and walk-throughs are coming soon!

The Value of Our Photographic Heritage: Five Perspectives - Photoville Festival 2021

A discussion about the power and perception of photography, the value of saving both personal and professional work, photography’s importance to history and what can be learned through it. Photo Historian and Curator Gail Buckland, Photo Editor Mike Davis, Photography Professor Lauren Walsh, and educators and photographers Ron Haviv and Kamal Badhey with PhotoWings Founder Suzie Katz. This event was pre-recorded.

Watch Photoville Talks here

84+ Free & accessible photo exhibitions in outdoor public spaces

110+ Photographers and educators compensated for their
participation in exhibitions and public programs

30+ Online talks, workshops and special events hosted

700+ Students and educators participated in the month-long Photoville EDU programming

65k+ People attended the opening day celebration in Brooklyn Bridge Park on September 18, 2021

600k (and counting) Photoville Festival visitors city-wide across NYC's five boroughs

Visit Photoville.nyc to explore this year's festival!

Image credit: Jessica Bai / Photoville 2020

Above Image credit: Jessica Bai / Photoville 2020
Below Image credits: Suzie Katz

Image credits: Suzie Katz

Watch Photoville Talks

PhotoWings has supported the documentation of the Photoville Talks for the past three years, to expand the ways the global community can be a part of these important dialogues. Explore the collection of Photoville Talks today!

Reading the Pictures: Pete Souza and Michael Shaw – Photoville 2017

A Picture of America:
Privilege, Race & The Era of Trump
Sheila Pree Bright & Danny Wilcox Frazier

An Afternoon with Jamel Shabazz

RECLAIM Photography Panel
Laura Beltrán Villamizar, Shahidul Alam, Austin Merrill, Daniella Zalcman, Brent Lewis, moderated by Tara Pixley

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A Picture of America: Privilege, Race & The Era of Trump

Presented in partnership with with Leica
Featuring: Sheila Pree Bright, Danny Wilcox Frazier

Explore the lives of individuals and communities that are often unseen, through the perspective of renowned photographers Sheila Pree Bright and Danny Wilcox Frazier. Bright and Frazier create visual, contemporary stories about social, political and historical contexts not often seen in the visual communication of traditional media and fine art platforms about divided communities. Their work captures and presents aspects of culture, and sometimes counter-culture, that challenge what we see and how we see it.

Reclaiming Photography

Featuring: Laura Beltrán Villamizar, Shahidul Alam, Austin Merrill, Daniella Zalcman, Tara Pixley (Moderator), Brent Lewis

A panel discussion from the founding members of RECLAIM: an alliance of The Everyday Projects, Native Agency, Majority World, Women Photograph, Minority Report [renamed from Visioning Project], and Diversify Photo. RECLAIM is made up of six organizations who are committed to amplifying the voices of underrepresented photographers and decolonizing the photojournalism industry. They are working together to diversify the community of visual storytellers, making sure that the lenses through which everyone interpret our world are as diverse as the people and places they hope to document.

Committed: A Leica Conversation with Doug Menuez and Mark Mann on the Impact and Importance of Long-Term Projects

Featuring: Doug Menuez, Mark Mann

Join Doug Menuez and Mark Mann as they dive into an in-depth discussion on how to overcome challenges and fears that arise in projects.

Climates in Conflict
Presented in partnership with The Ground Truth Project

Featuring: Laura Heaton, Nichole Sobecki and Charlie Sennott

Global warming no longer feels like a threat just for future generations. Extreme weather and rising temperatures are destabilizing communities across the globe and pushing people from their homes. This conversation featuring Photojournalist Nichole Sobecki, Journalist Laura Heaton and award winning foreign correspondent and The ground Truth Project Founder and Executive producer, Charles Sennott, will explore how the major challenges of our time — migration, extremism, conflict over dwindling natural resources — have roots in climate change. From Afghanistan to Colombia and Somalia, environmental changes have dire implications for security and are harbingers of global risks to come. What’s being done to address these concerns? What more can be done? How can visual storytelling help?

PDN’s 30: Advice for Emerging Photographers from Emerging Photographers

Presented in partnership with Photo District News
Featuring Holly Stuart Hughes (Moderator), Sasha Arutyunova, Benedict Evans, Jake Naughton, Frances F. Denny

Photographers chosen for the 2017 PDN’s 30: New and Emerging Photographers shared useful lessons they learned as they launched their careers, explain how they got their work seen and noticed, and offer advice on finding your style and building support for personal projects with PDN’s Editorial Director, Holly Hughes.

A Conversation on Widowhood

Presented in partnership with Pulitzer Center and featuring Amy Toensing & Whitney Johnson

In many regions of the world widowhood marks a “social death” for a woman – casting her and her children out to the margins of society.

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