I finally went to Photoville, in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Today was their last day, and the husband agreed to accompany me. Photoville is located on Pier 5 and is an event that re-purposes shipping containers into mini art galleries. Each shipping container houses a photographer's work, or group of photographers that address issues around the world. The first container we stepped in was called Scenes from the Ebola Crisis by Daniel Berehulak, a freelance photographer who works mostly for The New York Times. The photographs were powerful, and had sad images of people, and their loved ones infected with the virus in West Africa. Berehulak also won the Pulitzer Prize for his feature photography. Maybe we should have seen this last, it was too upsetting to see when we first arrived. The next exhibit we saw was the Disturbing Beauty of Sphynx Cats by Alicia Rius. I love the black background and rectangular display of the cats! This container showed Getty Images and Instagram photographers. Can't get enough of David Bowie! This was upstairs on top of a shipping container and this photographer was behind these photocubes, adjusting his camera. Why? I don't know. Aren't you supposed to look at the photos, not take a photo of the skyline? Check out the woman holding a skeleton of a mermaid. My favorite was from Feature Shoot, entitled Flora & Fauna. It is a show about plants and animals curated by Feature Shoot’s 42K Instagram followers. Over a period of 3 weeks, they sorted through over 9,000 images and posted over 400 images to Instagram, inviting followers to vote. Followers cast their votes simply by “liking” the image(s) on Instagram, and the 25 most popular images from 22 photographers around the world are presented in this show (from Photoville.com) This container housed images from Dutch photographers. My second favorite. Surreal portraits, and story like images are what I strive for in photographs. Lastly, the Instagram shipping container. I didn't go to all the containers, I could tell Matt didn't want to see all of photos, and he had to work, so next year I will go by myself so I can spend more time with the art and see everything. I feel like I missed out on a lot of the photos. There were about 60 photo exhibits, and I feel like I only went to 6.
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