‘Chef’ not ‘Cook’: The Process to Plate is a photo series that tells the story of eight industry-leading African-American chefs across New York.
Learn More1 in 6 by 2030 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, 1 in 6 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.
Learn MoreThis multimedia installation celebrates the one-hundred-year history of WNYC – beginning as New York City’s Municipal Broadcasting Station in 1924 and continuing as the City’s beloved public radio station today.
Learn MoreZEKE Award first-place winners explore the Indigenous Evenki reindeer herders in northwest Russia and the forest guardians protecting the Peruvian jungle from illegal logging and development.
Learn MoreA photo documentary unveiling the rich mosaic lives of American Muslims, challenging stereotypes and fostering empathy to promote inclusivity and understanding.
Learn MoreThe Alice Austen House education team worked with PS 60, The Alice Austen School 4th Grade students on a photographic unit inspired by Alice Austen and their own cultural heritage.
Learn MoreThis retrospective of Joseph’s portrait work reveals how a photographer uses his craft to show there are no strangers in his world.
Learn MoreThroughout these years, without planning it, my son Elías and I have constructed an extensive collection of fantastical beings that take shape in our images.
Learn MoreBelow the Big Top is a documentary about the Culpepper & Merriweather Great Combined Circus, a traditional, nomadic, one-ring family circus that lives on the road eight months out of the year.
Learn More“Brady’s Pond” is an ongoing collection of images made from recurring walks through Staten Island’s sliver of public access land along the pond’s northeast shore.
Learn MoreThis project focusses on food security in Northern Canada, and the challenges in accessing nutritious, affordable food.
Learn MoreBrought from Home is a two-part photo-documentary project on immigration and the complexities and symbolism of never truly leaving home.
Learn MoreCafecito: Building Community to Break Barriers celebrates the work of 36 photographers who were Cafecito initiative participants, showcasing their stories of belonging and human connection. Cafecito demonstrates how the power of community and creativity can collectively inspire change for the current state of the intersectional creative industry.
Learn MoreUnions are popular but facing decades of decline. We asked photographers to document this unique moment for the American worker.
Learn MoreConnecting threads is a multimedia exhibition presented by Doctors Without Borders and featuring photographs by Juan Carlos Tomasi that highlight the strength and determination of people on the move across the Americas. It’s also a call for a more humane response to migration.
Learn MoreIn this Pulitzer Center-supported photo story, Judith Surber gives a firsthand account of how the opioid epidemic has devastated her family and community on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation, photographed by Justin Maxon.
Learn MoreIn the heart of the Australian Outback, a 12-hour drive west of Sydney and three hours from the nearest supermarket, a small remote community lives in underground caves to shield themselves from the harsh climate of the desert.
Learn MoreEmerging Lens: Safety, Visibility, Justice, and Hope for the Future is an interactive multimedia exhibition developed by Chicago and The Hague-based visual advocacy non-profit ART WORKS Projects, which explores the ways new and emerging documentary photographers covering underrepresented stories across the globe have pushed the boundaries of traditional photojournalism and storytelling to address pressing and under-reported human rights issues around the world and connect them to local communities.
Learn More“End of the Line” is a composite portrait of New York City through the lens of the 44 communities that lie at the last stops of NYC subway lines, from the Rockaways to the Bronx to Staten Island.
Learn MoreStudents 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.
Learn MoreThis 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.
Learn More“Far Apart” is a photographic love letter to Shore Road Park, a narrow strip of playgrounds, wooded paths, and ball fields in Brooklyn that overlooks Staten Island and the Verrazano Narrows, the waterway that leads into New York Harbor.
Learn MoreFinding Home is a project about the reestablishment of the 273 students and staff of Afghanistan’s National Institute of Music in Portugal.
Learn MoreOf the thousands of photographs and prints by Morgan and Marvin Smith in the Schomburg Center’s collections, this exhibition highlights a brief survey of sports snapshots from the 1930s–1950s. From American Negro League baseball team players sliding into home plate to collegiate star-athlete footballers dodging tackles across the field, these photographs document a pivotal era in American sports history.
Learn MoreEvery time Bea Lubas feels homesick, she will cook or bake from one of her mum’s recipes. It transports her back in time, brings back sweet childhood memories, and always comforts her soul.
Learn MoreThe project “From the streets to the heart,” created by artist Ernst Coppejans, documents the lives of homeless LGBTQIA+ youth in NYC, aiming to raise awareness about their struggles. Through poignant visuals and personal interviews, the project showcases their resilience and challenges. As LGBTQIA+ rights face unprecedented threats, it serves as a call to action. Visit fromthestreetstotheheart.com for more.
Learn MoreGestalten is a collection of photographs of temporary sculptures portraying people wearing their complete possessions of clothing, weaving a vivid tapestry of human identity, material belongings, and personal narratives, inviting viewers to reflect on the intimate relationship between attire, memory, and individual expression.
Learn MoreDespite facing intense surveillance from China, the residents of Thitu island serve as a symbol of resistance for the Philippines.
Learn MoreMigrant Herbalism is a project that examines the belief system of traditional Indigenous and Afro-descendant Latin American medicine and how their knowledge, healing practices, and rituals have migrated with forced displacement to the United States.
Learn MoreFollowing high school FIRST Robotics Competition teams participating in the 2023 season.
Learn MoreHome Reimaginings explores how we see/interpret concepts of home.
Learn MoreICP at THE POINT: Our Stories, Our Light is an exhibition of photographs by students from the International Center of Photography’s partnership with THE POINT CDC, which celebrates local voices honoring the people, places, and things that keep us uplifted in our everyday lives.
Learn MoreThrough decades of Black figurative film-based photography, Cheryl Miller chronicles everyday experiences in the series “If We Stand Tall: Recollections of Spirits Past”—the rituals, social dynamics, and cultural nuances that define African American communities.
Learn MoreEugene Richards draws from his latest book, In This Brief Life (2023), a collection of more than 50 years of mostly unseen photographs.
Learn MoreAn ancient religion founded in Central Asia faces a vexing question: how to keep the fire of faith burning.
Learn MoreL’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.
Learn MoreDocumentary photographs by Saskia Scheffer capturing the historic 1994 Lesbian Avengers protest at the Alice Austen Museum Park.
Learn MoreAs the journalism industry shrinks, this project captures local newsrooms to engage communities in the search of and support for trusted local news while raising awareness for a national audience that may not realize what has already been lost, and what is at stake.
Learn More“Los Inocentes (The Innocents)” is a documentary photoessay that focuses on the resiliency of children who live in urban communities in less-than-ideal circumstances, but who prevail and thrive beyond their environments in the South Bronx, Spanish Harlem (El Barrio), and the Lower East Side (Loisaida).
Learn More“Made Of Smokeless Fire” is an exploration of LGBTQIA+ identities within Muslim culture in France, which are often underrepresented and simply ignored. France has the largest proportion of Muslims in the Western world, estimated at 8.8% of the population, or 5.57 million people. But islamophobia is still omnipresent
Learn MoreMaterial, 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.
Learn MoreFollowing the journey of migrant workers from their homeland in Michoacán, Mexico, across the US-Mexico border, and throughout America, in search of work and a better life for their families.
Learn MoreMineral Matter is a photography series by artist Brooke Holm that explores the interplay between Iceland’s dynamic river deltas and traces of humankind’s curiosity.
Learn MoreMINJIMENDAN/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.
Learn MoreSome of Mother Nature’s most incredible moments are fleeting and unpredictable. Those “blink and you’ll miss it” moments are among the most special that we can experience in this life.
Learn MoreMoonsongs for Earth offers a musical exploration of a decade-long war in Nepal: the dream for a just, egalitarian society and the subsequent betrayal.
Learn More“More New York Stories” features photo essays about the city that four current students or recent alumni of SVA’s Masters in Digital Photography department created for the program’s Editorial Photography class.
Learn MoreThe 2024 DPI BFA Thesis Exhibition presents 45 artistic thesis projects that go above and beyond traditional notions of the photograph, blurring the lines between mediums, materials, and fields of knowledge to redefine what it means to be a photographer, an artist, and a student in a constantly evolving world.
Learn MoreI discovered the waterfront in my early twenties when I moved to Brooklyn. At the time, much of it was abandoned and falling apart. Knowing it would vanish, I felt an urge, almost a duty, to document it.
Learn MoreThe project is a curated selection from winners of NPPA’s annual Best of Photojournalism Competition.
Learn More‘Our Interconnected World’ showcases stunning images that are not just photographs; they are windows into ecosystems, cautionary tales of human impact, and visual invitations to take action.
Learn MorePhotoville 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.
Learn MoreStep into my world of “Perspective Playgrounds”, taking you on a journey through urban illusions. My images invite you to explore urban landscapes through my lens of creative vision, redefining reality as a playground for imagination.
Learn More“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.
Learn MoreRezMade is an exhibition of current work by student photographers from the all-Tribal Our Community Record Two Eagle River School, Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes, in collaboration with A VOICE-Art Vision & Outreach In Community Education
Learn MoreSara 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.
Learn MoreThis project demonstrates how elements of culture, such as traditional religious practices and dominant notions of beauty, grooming, and embellishment, influence fashion styles.
Learn MoreShowcasing the significance of local stories in a global context through photographic explorations by selected members of VII Community, a program of The VII Foundation, in partnership with PhotoWings.
Learn More“Stories of Belonging” explores the history of TPS (Temporary Protective Status) workers, who are fully employed, have resided and worked in the U.S. for more than 25 years, and their struggle for their rights as migrant workers and for the right to American citizenship.
Learn MoreSuccess 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.
Learn MoreThank You Please Come Again documents the culture of service stations serving as vital community hubs and gathering places across the American South.
Learn MoreThe Platon-inspired project aims to honor and support school staff, fostering connections and celebrating their humanity through empathy, authenticity, and storytelling.
Learn MoreCombining scientific research and personal stories, The Cooling Solution investigates how people from different socioeconomic backgrounds around the world adapt to rising temperatures and humidity, in the context of climate change.
Learn MoreIn the spotted hyenas’ world, females rule. That may be the secret to their success.
Learn MoreAs we all age, our lives take unexpected twists and turns. Begun in 2003, The Lams of Ludlow Street is an exploration of how one family’s life continues to unfold in a 350 square-foot apartment in New York City’s Chinatown.
Learn MoreThe Limitless Project introduces us to neurodiverse young people who help us understand, through the language of imagery, how they see the world.
Learn MoreThe photography students’ approach in “The Real and the Surreal” strives to ignite a sense of wonder and curiosity in the hearts of all who engage with the work, hoping to spark dialogue on the transformative power of art and the endless possibilities it offers for escape, introspection, and renewal.
Learn MoreTennessee bans abortion in nearly all circumstances. But once the babies are here, the state provides little help. To chronicle what life truly looks like in a state whose political leaders say they are pro-life, we followed one woman for a year after she was denied an abortion for a life-threatening pregnancy.
Learn MoreThe BDC Youth Photo League is a documentary photography and college success program serving middle through high school students.
Learn MoreThrough Their Eyes: A Generation in Focus showcases emerging talent and the importance of arts education.
Learn MoreThis collection of images is a glimpse into Tekpatl’s relationship with traditional food systems and the natural world through his perspective and the teachings of others.
Learn MoreThis exhibition was curated from current students from the MFA Photography Program at Parsons School of Design in New York City.
Learn MoreShining light through pinpricked images, a photographer illuminates Mexico’s comunidades originárias.
Learn MoreThousands of young Ukrainians were separated from their parents by the Russian authorities in the early stages of the war. They are among the most forlorn victims of the invasion.
Learn MoreVivarium is a series of constructed dioramas by Dutch artist Dirk Hardy. For each Episode, Hardy meticulously designs, crafts and photographs a new world in his studio, creating meaningful narratives around topics like racial profiling, gender roles, modern working conditions and more.
Learn MoreVivian 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.
Learn More“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.
Learn MoreLucia 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.
Learn MoreWe Cry In Silence investigates cross-border trafficking of underage girls in South Asia for sex work and domestic servitude, and is an attempt to visibilise overlooked girls condemned to cry in silence.
Learn MoreWITNESS 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.
Learn MoreDom Marker (b. Kharkiv, 1990) is a Ukranian-American artist. His emergent artistic practice is embedded in community activism and a post-documentary approach, focused on the war in Ukraine.
Learn MoreElizar Veerman is a Moluccan-Dutch photographic artist based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Over the past years he portrayed boys and men with a history of migration as they reclaimed space.
Learn MoreA photographic journey through the golden age of hip-hop.
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