Ten Years of Photoville 📸

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Come see photography under the Brooklyn Bridge

We are now in our 10th year exhibiting Pulitzer Center-supported work at Photoville. The annual festival, held in New York City, has played a strong role in amplifying the visual journalism we support. It is a partnership we’re thankful for, presenting a fantastic opportunity to engage and connect with the public and photography communities in NYC and beyond.

Visual storytelling is a medium that compels viewers to engage and enrich their understanding of globally underreported issues. This year's two exhibits explore a Native American family living through the drug addiction crisis in the United States and communities enduring the effects of climate change in the Americas.

Decolonizing Care tells the story of Judith Surber, who writes a firsthand account of how the opioid epidemic has devastated her family and community on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation. Justin Maxon creates images that present snapshots of Surber's life through a lens of empathy, understanding, and emotional nuance. Maxon does this while centering Surber's voice throughout, combining his photos with her writing to produce a resonant story that has profound personal relevance for them both.

In addition, our collaborative exhibition with Diversify Photo, Eyewitness: The Shadows of Climate Change, featuring the work of 2023 Eyewitness Photojournalism Grant recipients Sofia Aldinio, Tara Pixley, and Ángela Ponce, explores the intersections of erasure, injustice, and resilience in the face of climate change's relentless advance. These photographs take us to climate-affected communities in the sunny hills of Southern California, fading coastlines in Baja Sur, Mexico, and melting ice caps above Cusco, Peru. The Eyewitness Photojournalism Grant supports visual storytelling by photojournalists from historically underrepresented backgrounds.

The two exhibits will be located at Brooklyn Bridge Park in New York City June 1-16. These exhibits and many more will be free and open to the public.

Best,

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Impact

The Pulitzer Center-supported project The Saharan Connection has won a National Headliner Award. The first-place award for environmental writing went to grantees Tony Bartelme and Andrew Whitaker, as well as Senegal-based journalist Borso Tall, for their project, a deep look into the role Saharan dust plays in determining how hurricanes form off Africa and whether they will strike the United States. The National Headliner Award is one of the oldest and largest annual journalism contests. 

Photo of the Week

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“I went to northeast Kazakhstan to try to capture the physical imprint of the cryptocurrency industry. It’s a rugged place, with livid scars from heavy industry—the perfect place to show the weird contrast between the ephemeral digital world and the infrastructure needed to keep it going.”

—Peter Guest

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