Event Details


Photoville returns for its eighth year, in picturesque Brooklyn Bridge Plaza, from September 12-22, 2019.

Located in Brooklyn Bridge Park in DUMBO beneath the majestic span of the Brooklyn Bridge— will be transformed into an immersive photography village populated by 90+ shipping containers repurposed into galleries.

 

Melina Monserrat, yalaltec descendent at San Juan Celebration in Oaxaca City. June, 2018. | Photo credit: Citlali Fabian

Featuring:Brian Adams (Inupiaq), Russel Daniels (Diné & Ho-Chunk), Jeremy Dennis (Shinnecock), Citlali Fabian (Zapoteca), Kapulei Flores (Hawaiian), Kalen Goodluck (Three Affiliated Tribes & Navajo & Tsimshian), Tailyr Irvine (Confederated Salish & Kootenai), Pat Kane (Timiskaming First Nation), Yael Martinez (Nahua/Mexican), Jenny Irene Miller (Inupiaq), Pamela Peters (Diné/Navajo), Ryan RedCorn (Osage), Josue Rivas (Mexica & Otomi), Cara Romero (Chemehuevi), Camille Seaman (Shinnecock), Kali Spitzer (Kaska Dena & Jewish), Joe Whittle (Caddo & Delaware), Kiliii Yuyan (Nanai/Hezhen)

Presented by

Natives Photograph

Curated by

Josue Rivas + Daniella Zalcman

Printing by

AdoramaPix

Photographic depictions of Turtle Island (known to many as North America) have historically been controlled by non-native image-makers. From Edward Curtis to Jimmy Nelson, most of the past century’s documentation has routinely misrepresented, or exotically depicted the Indigenous people we see.

How We See Ourselves is a group exhibition with some of the thirty members of Natives Photograph, showing a deeper and more nuanced depiction of Indigenous life. This is an inside look at the communities, families, homes, and landscapes of this continent, created by artists using their cameras to reclaim their narrative.

Thumbnail photo credit: Brian Adams

ORGANIZATION BIO

Natives Photograph is a space to elevate the work of Indigenous visual journalists and bring balance to the way we tell stories about Indigenous people and their spaces. Our mission is to support the media industry in hiring more Indigenous photographers to tell the stories of their communities and to reflect on how we tell these stories.

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