Photoville

Photoville Festival 2021, now in its 10th year, rolled out more than 85 outdoor exhibits citywide.
Many of these shows have been taken down for the year. But if you find yourself wanting a memento, a keepsake to whisk you into the New Year and beyond, we’ve put together a list of this year’s featured artists who have also published recent books or...

This year’s Photoville Festival showcased visual narratives that ranged in topics from Asian humanity and the erasure of Indigenous history to a humorous tale about a downy existential hamster living an all too-relatable millennial life.
Themes of reclamation presented in works such as Keeping Love Close: What Does Love Look Like? Asian and Asian-American Photographers Respond and Here Is Where We Shall Stay or ones focused on life turning points such as Goodbye Salad Days: Kevin Faces...

Exhibitions at this year’s Photoville Festival emanated an especially momentous tone on the backdrop of a dreary and dizzying 2020 that brought us a pandemic, social uprisings, and edge-of-your-seat elections.
The deconstructed, rearranged, and glitzy collages featured in the MZ. ICAR series “Value: In Terms of Iconography” or Wendy Red Star’s panoramic timeline titled “Um-basax-bilua (Where They Make Noise)” forced us not only to see but beckoned us to reconsider...

Following the Photoville Festival youth panel, The Power of Photographic Storytelling, our teen ambassador delved deeper with a special peer-to-peer interview with the 2020 NYU Tisch Future Imagemakers.
About Lea Ibragimov
I’m Lea and I’m a freshman in Brooklyn College. I moved to New York when I was 11, and my hidden talent is languages Art- especially photography, has been built into my life from a young age, and as I got older I learned to put it more into perspective...