As the sun goes down on the Opening Day of the Photoville 2025 festival, the annual Opening Night Celebration begins featuring an exploration of the stories behind the lens in CatchLight’s “Night of Photojournalism” and a preview of “Witness” by Tamir Kalifa.
Photoville 2025 will kick off with a celebratory opening weekend on June 7-8, 2025, and will run through June 22, 2025.
The Photo Village, with its classic shipping containers will be returning to Brooklyn Bridge Park – with additional open-air exhibitions in NYC Parks, and other NYC cultural institutions and public spaces through the five boroughs.
The Festival will also feature artist-led walking tours, workshops, and opportunities for educators and students to connect with the Festival’s featured visual storytellers.
To celebrate the opening of the festival, Photoville will present a free Community Weekend (June 7 and 8), a visual storytelling event bringing various artists to Brooklyn Bridge Park, featuring 60 exhibitions and free public programming from Leica Camera, Creatively Wild, The Pulitzer Center, The International Center of Photography, The Marshall Project, Cynthia Santos Briones, The End Fund, The Climate Museum, and food and beverage vendors from Photoville’s longtime friends at Smorgasburg.
The evening of Saturday, June 7, will see visual stories projected on the big screen under the Brooklyn Bridge for Catchlight’s “Night of Photojournalism,” in partnership with Enlight Foundation and PhotoWings, taking viewers behind the lens to explore what it takes to document truth in a complex world. It will kick off with a special presentation—from the Chris Hondros Fund and Photoville—of Tamir Kalifa’s “WITNESS,” a multimedia performance of story, song, and photography.
