Model of Photoville by Dave Shelley of United Photo Industries (photo by twi-ny/mdr)
Pier 3 Uplands, Brooklyn Bridge Park
June 22 – July 1, free
photovillenyc.org
Following hot on the heels of last month’s New York Photo Festival in DUMBO, the inaugural Photoville begins today, held in a collection of shipping containers across sixty thousand square feet on Pier 3 in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Sponsored by United Photo Industries, the show will feature exhibits from around the world, a series of workshops and talks, a dog run surrounded by a photo fence, an interactive greenhouse with camera flowers designed by André Feliciano, and a beer garden where visitors can down Brooklyn Brewery selections while watching nighttime projections and eating food from a rotating group of trucks. Getting there will be part of the fun, with a display on board the East River Ferry of shots either of the various vessels in the fleet or taken from them. Among the more than two dozen exhibitions are analog photos from Lomography, the multimedia presentation “2084” from SVA, Russell Frederick’s “Dying Breed: Photos of Bedford Stuyvesant,” Bruce Gilden’s “No Place Like Home: Foreclosures in America,” Sim Chi Yin’s “China’s Rat Tribe,” Wyatt Gallery’s “Tent Life: Haiti,” 2012 Pulse Prize winner Sigrid Viir’s “Routine Crusher,” Josh Lehrer’s “Becoming Visible” series of portraits of homeless transgender teens, Lorie Novak’s multimedia installation “Random Interference,” and Candace Gaudiani’s “Between Destinations” photos taken from inside train windows. Advance registration is recommended for such panel discussions and artist talks as “Li Hao: ‘Worshippers’” and “Cruel and Unusual: The Prisons, the Photography or Both?” on June 23, “The New Documentary” and “Human Rights Through Visual Storytelling” on June 24, “The Art of Fashion Portraiture” on June 28, “Photographs Not Taken” on June 29, and “Janelle Lynch: ‘Los Jardines de Mexico’” and “Photography as Activism” on July 1.