Photoville is back! New York City’s premier photo destination is an annual festival where photographers from all walks come together and interact while displaying their work in repurposed shipping containers. Returning for its seventh year to Brooklyn Bridge Plaza from September 13-23, 2018. It will host 65+ shipping containers repurposed into galleries.
The largest annual photographic event in New York City will exhibit work from over 600 visual artist. It will also offer nighttime projection program, hands-on workshops, an education day for New York City middle and high-school students, panel discussion and talks present next door at the 60 Water Street Storefronts, tents with vendors, family-friendly photo activities, publishers and gear demonstrations, a community photo bookstore run by Red Hook Editions, tintype portraits by the Penumbra Foundation, and a beer garden with a range of food vendors by Smorgasburg and Brooklyn Brewery beers.
NYC Ferry will also host one of the hundred exhibits displayed at Photoville this year, with photos produced by Francesca Magnani. The exhibit will be called PEOPLE OF THE FERRY. The exhibit is from the point of view of just one of our riders. NYC Ferry will also provide a catalogue of photos, which will be available on NYC Ferry boats throughout the two weeks of Photoville.
About the Artist:
Francesca Magnani was born in Padua, Italy and since 1997 is a New York based journalist and photographer. Francesca’s stories over the years have been published in various Italian magazines and have often stemmed from everyday encounters in the streets of the Big Apple. They have ranged widely in interest from issues of lifestyle to identity, from incarceration to one’s relationship with space. Having lived half her life immersed in a culture extraneous from her own, having trained academically in Classics and Anthropology, having taught Italian to hundreds students, her work bridges cultures and tells through her images and words the aspects of people’s lives that touch her and reach her, at the same time chronicling her own life.
Photoville 2018 Schedule:
Wednesday September 12: 6pm – 9pm + United Photo Industries Gala Picnic at Photoville (Ticketed event)
Thursday September 13: Photoville OPENS FREE to the Public – 4pm – 10pm
Friday September 14: Opens 4pm – 10pm + Photoshelter Professional Development Day 9am – 6pm
Saturday September 15: Opens 12pm – 10pm + Exhibitions, Talks, workshops, night time events
Sunday September 16: Opens 12pm – 9pm + Exhibitions, Talks, workshops, night time events
September 17 – 19: Photoville takes a nap (closed to the public)
Thursday September 20: Opens 4pm – 10pm + Photoville Education Day (to register your students go to their education page!)
Friday September 21: Opens 4pm – 10pm + Exhibitions opened with Night Time events
Saturday September 22: Opens 12pm – 10pm + Exhibitions, workshops, night time events
Sunday September 23: Opens 12pm – 9pm + Exhibitions, workshops, night time events
We are excited that NYC Ferry will the be the official transportation sponsor for Photoville 2018! NYC Ferry riders can take our East River Route or South Brooklyn Route to our DUMBO Landing to visit the exhibit, which is only a three-minute walk away.
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