Photo: City View, © Kaitlyn Ellison
Now in it’s fifth edition, Photoville has earned its place at the most coveted real estate of all, directly under the Brooklyn Bridge, which speaks to its importance as New York City’s largest annual photography event. Presented by United Photo Industries, Photoville provides an entirely new way of experiencing art with more than 55 shipping containers repurposed as galleries.
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Free and open to the public now through September 25, 2016, Photoville also features nighttime projection programs; hands-on workshops; panel discussions; tents with vendors, publishers and gear demonstrators; and a beer garden with a range of food vendors by Smorgasburg and Brooklyn Brewery beers.
Flower Power ©Sophie Gamand
In just five years, Photoville has grown into one of the most attended photo events nationwide, with more than 72,000 visitors attending the 2015 edition. This year promises great things, kicking off Battle of the Boroughs, a nighttime show that reveals what makes New York City one of the greatest places in the world.
Highlights from the 2016 edition include On the Street with Bill Cunningham, a celebration of the work of the preeminent street photographer Bill Cunningham, presented by The New York Times; Jerome Avenue Workers Project, presented by the Bronx Documentary Center, which celebrates one of New York City’s few remaining working class neighborhoods where many still make a living in small shops and factories, or repairing auto-mobiles; and Represent: 29 Women We Admire, presented by Refinery29, spotlighting 29 female photographers pushing visual boundaries and exploring new perspectives.
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Continuing the tradition of highlighting major issues in contemporary life, Photoville will also present Kamoinge’s Breaking Point, which confronts issues of inequality, injustice, separation and xenophobia in the United States; Screen’s Flint Is a Place, which provides in an intimate, character-driven way and change our understanding of Flint’s issues; Oded Balilty’s Miss Trans Israel, following the contenders in Israel’s first transgender pageant; and Liam Maloney’s Texting Syria, exploring the experience of Syrian refugees in the digital age.
A series of outdoor installations are located throughout Brooklyn Bridge Park and DUMBO that take on challenging issues, including Wayne Lawrence’s #OrlandoStrong, Mustafah Abdulaziz’s Water Stories, and Kadir van Lohuizen’s Where will we go: the human consequences of rising sea levels.
Prlando Strong Wayne Lawrence
There will also be a series of walking tours led by favorites in the photography world including Jamel Shabzz, Ruddy Roye, Nina Berman, Julie Grahame, Holly Hughes, and Sarah Leen.
For a full program of exhibitions, projections, workshops, talks, tours, and other special events, head over to the Photoville website for more information.
Baby ©Morrigan McCarthy
Photoville Hours:
Wednesday September 21: 4pm – 10pm
Thursday, September: 12pm – 10pm + Education Day (10am-1:30pm and 4-6pm for After School sessions)
Friday, September 23: 12pm – 10pm + Photoshelter’s Luminance Professional Development Seminars (10am-6pm)
Saturday, September 24: 12pm – 10pm
Sunday, September 25: 12pm – 9pm
Miss Rosen is a New York-based writer, curator, and brand strategist. There is nothing she adores so much as photography and books. A small part of her wishes she had a proper library, like in the game of Clue. Then she could blaze and write soliloquies to her in and out of print loves.
