Bronx-based author and community leader Sulma Arzu-Brown and NYU professor Dr. Shatima Jones will take part in a panel discussion following the film.

In this documentary Chris Rock visits beauty salons and hairstyling battles, scientific laboratories and Indian temples to explore the way hairstyles impact the activities, pocketbooks, sexual relationships, and self-esteem of the black community.

Prompted by Rock's daughter approaching him and asking, "Daddy, how come I don't have good hair?", Good Hair shows Rock engaging in frank, funny conversations with hair-care professionals, beauty shop, and barbershop patrons, and celebrities including Dr. Maya Angelou and others - all while he struggles with the task of figuring out how to respond to his daughter's question.



SULMA ARZU-BROWN is community leader with an extensive resume, Sulma Arzu-Brown has authored a children’s book that centers on positive awareness for young readers."Bad Hair Does Not Exist!" a bilingual book that encourages young Black, Afro-Latino, and multi-racial girls to see themselves, and their hair, as beautiful. Sulma Arzu-Brown, is a Garifuna woman and Afro-Latino from Honduras, was inspired to write the book after her three-year-old daughter's babysitter used the colloquial term "pelo malo," which is a Spanish term for "bad hair" to describe little Bella's curly textured hair.

Arzu-Brown has worked as a job developer for BronxWorks helping formerly incarcerated fathers find employment opportunities. Arzu-Brown now serves as the New York City Hispanic Chamber of Commerce’s director of operations and is tasked with providing quality networking events, seminars, and fundraisers which seek to establish long lasting partnerships with members in support of Hispanic businesses and the community NYCHCC serves. In addition to her work with NYCHCC, Arzu-Brown is a Hunts Point Community Advisory Board member and co-owner of the Boogie Down Grind Cafe.

Arzu-Brown has received the Entre Nosotros Award from former Councilwoman Maria del Carmen Arroyo and Assemblywoman Carmen Arroyo in recognition of her book and was honored by New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli for her work with NYCHCC. Arzu-Brown’s second book, ‘My Best Friend Likes Boy More Than Me’ was published in 2016. For more information about Arzu-Brown and her work, visitwww.nopelomalo.com

SHATIMA J. JONES is an Assistant Professor Faculty Fellow in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis and the Department of Sociology. She earned her doctorate in sociology at Rutgers University, where she also received her master’s degree; and she holds a BA in sociology from Hunter College. Shatima is interested in the intersection of race, space, gender, and culture. Her dissertation, “Performing Race and Shaping Community in the Black Barbershop” focuses on how black people interpret and perform their racial identity, the processes by which they create community based on these understandings, and the significance of place and space in shaping these sentiments. The bulk of Shatima’s research employs ethnographic methods to uncover what black people think constitutes an “authentic” racial identity, how they signal this to others in everyday interaction, and how racially exclusive places shape understandings and performances of race.

At NYU, Shatima is writing a book manuscript based on her dissertation research. She is also embarking on a new ethnographic project focusing on women’s hair salons in order to explore gender differences in racial performance.

This screening is held in conjunction with the BDC's current exhibition "From Mobutu to Beyonce" by Émilie Régnier, which explores the ongoing cultural conversation between Africa and the West. On view until June 4, 2017.

The Bronx Documentary Center’s next exhibition, by the Haitian-Canadian photographer Émilie Régnier, explores the ongoing cultural conversation between Africa and the West. 

Émilie, who grew up in Central Africa, has created a series of portraits exploring the symbolic power of leopard patterns and prints in Dakar, Kinshasa, Johannesburg, Paris and even a small town in Texas. 

Émilie also documents hairstyles as a means of expression in Côte d'Ivoire, the fashion capital of West Africa, where women credit American pop stars such as Beyoncé and Rihanna with influencing their style and fashion. 

The completed cultural feedback loop, as Émilie’s photos demonstrate, is one in which many American designers and artists have traditionally taken their cues from African design and style.

Free and open to the public.

Learn more about the exhibition.

This exhibition is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts, and National Endowment for the Arts.

Nina Robinson will speak about her two-year project Not Forgotten: An Arkansas Family Album. The work is a unique and intimate exploration of loss, love and tradition in a rural Black community.

NINA ROBINSON is a documentary and portrait photographer based in the South Bronx and Arkansas. In her work, Robinson examines issues in underrepresented communities, aiming to break the visual prejudices of race, class and age. She has been published in The New York Times, was named one of Time Magazine’s “Instagram Photographers to Follow in All 50 States” and has exhibited at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Robinson teaches a phototherapy program at the William Hodson Senior Center, where, through the use of photography, older residents are able to openly explore personal and social issues. She is a member of the Bronx Photo League, a collective of documentary photographers in the South Bronx.

Not Forgotten: An Arkansas Family Album is sponsored by Fujifilm Cameras, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Art Works and National Endowment for the Arts.

Suggested Donation: Bronx residents $5, general $10, 18-and-under free. 

Following a month of terrible violence in Orlando, Baton Rouge, Minneapolis and Dallas, the Bronx Documentary Center will open New Documents, an exhibition which examines the history of ordinary citizens photographing and recording extraordinary events.

From the early 1900s to the advent of Facebook Live, New Documents highlights the ways in which eyewitnesses have created and shared evidence to expose injustice and abuses of power, setting the agenda for social discourse.

Free and open to the public.

The photos of Nigerian-born photographer Osaretin Ugiagbe document the beauty and sorrows witnessed during a life split between the surging Bronx streets and the half-built flyovers of Lagos, Nigeria (population 20 million strong and growing). In 2002, the then 16-year-old Ugiagbe left Nigeria for the Bronx, joining his father who had already emigrated to the US. Fifteen years later, he maintains an identity firmly planted in both worlds.

Learn more about the exhibition.

The final screening of our 2nd Annual Women’s Film Series. The film series showcases movies made by women filmmakers.

Q&A with director Geeta Gandbhir will follow the film.

A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers follows a unit of all female Muslim police officers are sent to Haiti as peacekeepers for a year.

GEETA GANDBHIR is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. She co-directed and edited Remembering the Artist Robert DeNiro Sr. for HBO, produced and edited Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley for HBO, and edited Which Way is the Frontline From Here?” The latter two films were nominated for Emmy Awards. Additional notable works include When the Levees Broke, By the People: The Election of Barack Obama, Music By Prudence, Budrus, If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don’t Rise, and God is the Bigger Elvis, which was nominated for the 2012 Academy Awards. Gandbhir’s films have won two Emmy Awards, one Academy Award, and three Peabody Awards.

Suggested Donation: $5 Bronx Residents, $10 General, Free for 18 and Under

A discussion with the journalists who as part of a The New York Times series have been exploring every murder last year in the Bronx’s 40th Precinct, home to the Bronx Documentary Center. 

This will be a chance for the reporters to talk about their work and more importantly for people in the 4-0 to talk about how their community continues to be affected by the persistence of violent crime and how coverage of the violence impacts the community.

Panelists: Al Baker, James C. McKinley Jr., Ben Mueller, Ashley Southall and Edwin Torres. David Gonzalez will moderate the discussion.

Learn more about the series in this Times Insider piece and an article about the series on Neiman Storyboard.
Times Insider piece: 

Open Show New York City returns to the BDC for their final screening of 2016.

Presenters:
Griselda San Martin | "The Other Side"
Kendra Rennick | "The Vietnam Slide Project"
Tomas Mantilla | "Rikers Island: Out of Sight, Out of Mind"
Sarah Blesener | "Toy Soldiers"
Mengwen Cao | "Here We Are"

Open Show events feature five curated presenters, from professionals to students, presenting 10 minutes each to show either a 20 image story or a 4-7 minute multimedia/film project.

Suggested Donation: Bronx Residents $5, General $10, Free for 18-and-under

The People's Screening of Some Girls, a documentary by Raquel Cepedaand Henry Chalfant.

Some Girls is a feature documentary following a group of troubled Latina teens from a Bronx-based suicide prevention program who are transformed by an exploration of their roots via the use of ancestral DNA testing, followed by a trip to the seat of the Americas. 

On that journey to the modern-day Dominican Republic, the white supremacist narratives about American history they've been taught are challenged, leaving them free to reconstruct their own respective identities. 

What does it really mean to be American? And, more importantly, what does that look like?

Followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers Raquel Cepeda and Henry Chalfant.

Free and open to the public.

As part of the Bronx Documentary Center's Holiday Portraits, Bronx residents and families are invited to be photographed as part of our Valentine's Day Portraits. Each Bronx resident receives a free 8x10 print and an invite to upcoming events. Thanks to Fujifilm USA for their continued support for our events.

The Bronx Documentary Center is proud to host a series of screenings of Los Sures:

Thursday, February 16th, 7-9PM
Saturday, February 18th, 7-9PM, Followed by Q&A with director Diego Echeverria
Sunday, February 19th, 7-9PM

Thirty years ago, South Williamsburg was known as “Los Sures,” a place imbued with vibrant life, a community of close-knit Puerto Rican and Dominican families living amidst everyday economic struggle. Today, with the neighborhood fully gentrified, it feels vital to remember this lost world, and Diego Echeverria’s essential documentary, shot in the early eighties on 16mm, brings it all back to life, through the eyes of five different residents.

Rediscovered in 2007, the film has become a cornerstone program of the Williamsburg arts nonprofit UnionDocs, which not only restored the film but in 2010 began the “Living Los Sures” historical memory project, an expansive documentary project about the Southside of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. A UnionDocs release.

There is a suggested donation of $10 or $7 for Bronx residents. Free for 18 and younger.

Tickets available at the door or in advance: bronxdocumentarycenter.ticketleap.com/los-sures/

FEATURING

Justin Arroyo | Jada Arroyo | Tony Baizan | Kayla Beltran | Bianca Colón | Mitchell Dennis | Fanta Diop | Nailea Dominguez | Fritzi Garcia | Alberto Garcia | Julie Lozano | Saliyah Muhammed | Nicholas Noriega | Leonely Pacheco | Chloe Rodriguez | Ruby Simon

The Bronx Junior Photo League, the BDC's after-school documentary photography program, spent the first months of 2017 interviewing and photographing immigrants in our community. These 12 to 18-year-old Bronx students have created windows into the lives of a Vietnamese nun, a Dominican artist and an exiled Russian journalist among others. This work reveals the challenges and triumphs of life in today's New York City immigrant community. The exhibition will also feature work the students created throughout this year-long program.

The students will present their multimedia pieces at 5PM during the opening reception on Thursday, June 15th.

Learn more about the exhibition.

The second screening of our 2nd Annual Women’s Film Series. The film series will showcase movies made by women filmmakers.

Q&A with director Crystal Moselle will follow the film.

The Wolfpack is the true story of six brothers locked away from society in a Manhattan housing project who found a window to the outside through film.


CRYSTAL MOSELLE is a New York based director best known for her Sundance, Grand Jury Prize award winning documentary, The Wolfpack. In the past she was a producer on the critically acclaimed documentary film, Excavating Taylor Mead. In the last decade she has been working with short-form storytelling for publications such as Vice and The New York Times, where she created a series called "Something Big, Something Small," featuring talent such as Pharrell Williams and Shepard Fairey. Later collaborations with Pharrell included, “Meet the Bae’s,” a series profiling the artists back up dancers. Moselle is also a regular contributor for “Nowness” creating original work including viral sensation, "Shapeshifting," on a pack of 14-year-old Ballerinas. 

Suggested Donation: $5 Bronx Residents, $10 General, Free for 18 and Under

Magnum Foundation, FUJIFILM X Series US and The Bronx Documentary Center are proud to present a group exhibition by nine Magnum Foundation Fellows:

Santiago Arcos
Poulomi Basu
Xyza Cruz Bacani
Abbas Hajimohammadi
Eman Helal
Yuyang Liu
Manca Juvan
Anastasia Vlasova 
Muyi Xiao

Since 2010, Magnum Foundation has provided scholarships and intensive training each year to regional photojournalists and activists to tell stories within their home communities. In an effort strengthen this growing network, Magnum Foundation brought together nine former fellows from Iran, Ukraine, Slovenia, Syria, India, Ecuador, China, and the Philippines to produce a collective project. What Works explores the global issue of intolerance through local examples of bridge-building amongst groups that might otherwise be in conflict. 

The Magnum Foundation fosters creativity and diversity in documentary photography, activating new audiences and ideas through the innovative use of images. Through grant-making, mentoring, and creative collaborations, we partner with socially engaged image-makers experimenting with new models for storytelling. Learn more:magnumfoundation.org

Partner and Sponsor: FUJIFILM X Series US
The images will be printed on Fujicolor Crystal Archive Luster.

As part of the Bronx Documentary Center's Holiday Portraits, Bronx residents and families are invited to be photographed as part of our Easter Portraits. Each Bronx resident received a free 8x10 print and an invite to upcoming events. Thanks to Fujifilm USA for their continued support for our events.

Please note this is NOT at the BDC.

LOCATION: New Settlement Community Center
1501 Jerome Avenue (at 172nd Street), Bronx, NY 10452 

GALLERY HOURS:
Monday-Friday 9AM-8PM
Please note viewers will need to sign in and bring a photo ID for admittance to the exhibition.

This exhibition documents and celebrates the workers and trades people of Jerome Avenue, one of New York City’s few remaining working class neighborhoods where many still make a living in small shops and factories, or repairing auto-mobiles. The city is considering a plan to rezone two miles along Jerome Ave: speculation and rising rents are already evident. If passed, the rezoning will lead to construction of housing units, but also, many believe, to the end of a proud culture of industry and work in this last bastion of New York City’s working class.

The Bronx Photo League (BPL), a project of the Bronx Documentary Center, is made up of 16 Bronx photographers committed to documenting social issues and change in our borough. 

The portraits in this show were shot on Kodak Tri-X negative film with Hasselblad cameras and lenses. Authentic silver gelatin darkroom prints will be on display.

Learn more about the project and the BPL at www.jeromeaveworkers.com

Members of the Bronx Photo League will be in attendance as well as the portrait subjects and their families.

Join us as photographer Fabio Bucciarelli presents his work and talks about his long term photographic project The Dream, on view at the BDC from March 10-27th.

Bucciarelli has spent five years documenting the causes and consequences of the largest refugee migration since World War II. In The Dream, Bucciarelli tells the stories of those who have fled the wars in Syria, Libya, Afghanistan and beyond. 

Free and open to the public.

FABIO BUCCIARELLI (Italy, 1980) is an award-winning photographer who focuses his attention on conflicts and humanitarian consequences of war. See more of his work here: www.fabiobucciarelli.com

Fabio spent the last years covering the major world changing events in Africa and Middle East. He reported from Libya - from its earliest stages until the death of Gaddafi - from Syria - during the civil war - and from forgotten countries in Africa as South Sudan and Mali. Fabio feels the urgency to tell the stories of people who are rendered powerless and provide unbiased information focused on human rights.

In 2015, with other committed photographers and a group developers, Fabio founded MeMo Mag, a platform that uses the strength of digital technology to develop new ways of storytelling.

“Photography is not a hobby for me. It’s a way of life.” Mahmoud Abou Zeid, better known as "Shawkan", an Egyptian photojournalist wrote from the infamous Tora prison. Shawkan has been imprisoned since August 14, 2013, when he was arrested while covering the dispersal of a protest of supporters of ousted President Mohamed Morsi, one of the most violent events in the country’s modern history. Shawkan, who was 25 at the time of his arrest, has now spent more than 1000 days behind bars.

Shawkan’s photos are a poignant reminder of the early optimism of the Egyptian revolution and the uprisings which swept the Arab world. From celebrations in Tahrir Square to revolutionary graffiti, the fact that his last photos feel dated is a visual testament to how long he’s been behind bars. Shawkan’s arrest is a marker of a dramatic change in Egypt, which has since transformed into one of the world’s worst jailers of journalists.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is showcasing the work of Shawkan in order to advocate for his swift release, and to highlight the plight of journalists and journalism in Egypt today. Shawkan is a recipient of CPJ’s 2016 International Press Freedom Award.

Please join us to celebrate the opening of the Tim Hetherington Photobook Library, one of the few New York City's libraries dedicated to photography.

The library is stocked with the books of the late Tim Hetherington, an Oscar nominee and World Press Photo award winner, who helped plan the BDC before his tragic and untimely death.

The BDC gratefully acknowledges the support of Tim's parents, Judith and Alistair Hetherington, who generously donated his books to the Bronx Documentary Center. 

The library is currently accepting photobook donations and will be open Saturdays from 1-5PM and by appointment.

It's been almost thirty years since the publication of Eugene Richards' landmark book, Below the Line: Living Poor in America. The book, though acclaimed at the time, was also controversial. Critics applauded the revealing nature of the stories, but often added, as if in the same breath, that what was being shown was a negative view of the country, one that lacked hope. Pushed to reply, Richards countered that these stories were, in fact, portraits in courage. Each person encountered on his journey across America was struggling, against great odds, to better him or herself.

On the occasion of its 5th anniversary in October 2016, the BDC is honored to present Below the Line: Living Poor in America by Eugene Richards. The exhibition will feature more than two dozen black and white photographs from Richards's seminal project that depicts the extent of poverty in the United States in the mid 1980s. The project garnered Richards the 1987 International Center of Photography Infinity Award for Outstanding Accomplishment in Photographic Reportage.

Published by Consumer Reports Books in 1987, Below the Line consisted of taped interviews and photographs made by Richards during a seven-month journey across America in 1986 visiting poor rural and urban communities in eleven states from Massachusetts to Wyoming. Richards writes: "As one person's history unfolded, I was often directed towards others. When I was with embattled farmers in South Dakota, I was moved to think of the migrant laborers who also worked the land, yet have no title to it. The family I visited in the Tennessee Mountains was barely hanging onto their ancestral homeland. How must it be, then, for people newly arrived in this country that must adapt to a new language, different customs, to an inhospitable economy? In the Arkansas Delta, the grandchildren of the aging and weary sharecroppers I photographed could barely wait to get away from home, to Chicago or New York, which held more promise for them... "

The BDC's Melrose neighborhood in the Bronx remains one of America's poorest communities, located just four subway stops away from one of the country's wealthiest, the Upper East side of Manhattan. It is the BDC's hope that Richards's powerful exhibition will stimulate a dialogue between the local communities it serves and the world at large about actionable steps to fight poverty.


Below the Line: Living Poor in America was made possible with the support of: NY Culture, Ford Foundation, State of the Arts NYSCA, Art Works, National Endownment of the Arts

In 2014, Nina Robinson traveled to Dalark, Arkansas to document her grandmother's passing and her family's grieving process. She became engrossed in the often overlooked rural African American communities surrounding Dalark, communities whose members are mostly working and middle class landowners. Her visit turned into a two-year project, Not Forgotten: An Arkansas Family Album. 

Ms. Robinson’s family has a storied history in Arkansas extending back six generations. In her photos, the viewer witnesses the passing of older members as traditions are preserved and handed down to the young. The photographer has extensively documented the many gatherings, celebrations and reunions--at churches and a once segregated local high school--that serve as anchors for Dalark’s Black community.

Not Forgotten: An Arkansas Family Album is a unique and intimate exploration of loss, love and tradition in a rural Black community.

NINA ROBINSON is a documentary and portrait photographer based in the South Bronx and Arkansas. In her work, Robinson examines issues in underrepresented communities, aiming to break the visual prejudices of race, class and age. She has been published in The New York Times, was named one of Time Magazine’s “Instagram Photographers to Follow in All 50 States” and has exhibited at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Robinson teaches a phototherapy program at the William Hodson Senior Center, where, through the use of photography, older residents are able to openly explore personal and social issues. She is a member of the Bronx Photo League, a collective of documentary photographers in the South Bronx.


Not Forgotten: An Arkansas Family Album is sponsored by Fujifilm Cameras, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Art Works and National Endowment for the Arts.

As part of the Bronx Documentary Center's Holiday Portraits, Bronx residents and families are invited to be photographed as part of our Father's Day Portraits. Each Bronx resident receives a free 8x10 print and an invite to upcoming events. Thanks to Fujifilm USA for their continued support for our events.

Q&A with filmmaker Talal Derki via Skype will follow the film.

War changes people, including 19-year-old Basset Saroot, who went from star goalkeeper for the Syrian national soccer team to peaceful advocate for Arab Spring reforms to armed insurgent. 

Winner of Sundance's 2014 World Cinema Grand Jury Prize for Documentary, this is an unprecedented view inside a conflict that many accuse the world of overlooking. Winner of the first George Polk Documentary Film Award.

This event is a collaboration with POV, PBS's award-winning nonfiction film series. 

Suggested Donation: Bronx residents $5, general $10, 18-and-under free.

As part of the Bronx Documentary Center's Holiday Portraits, Bronx residents and families are invited to be photographed as part of our Mother's Day Portraits. Each Bronx resident receives a free 8x10 print and an invite to upcoming events. Thanks to Fujifilm USA for their continued support for our events.

As part of the Bronx Documentary Center's Holiday Portraits, Bronx residents and families are invited to be photographed as part of our Father's Day Portraits. Each Bronx resident receives a free 8x10 print and an invite to upcoming events. Thanks to Fujifilm USA for their continued support for our events.

Featuring the work of thirty eight independent photojournalists, this exhibit captures ordinary New Yorkers as they rallied, rioted, marched, and demonstrated. These stunning images document historic moments of violent confrontation such as the Tompkins Square Park and Crown Heights Riots and as well as organized protests involving non-violent civil disobedience and creative street theater. Collectively, these photographs, which have never before been exhibited together, chronicle New York’s history from 1980-2000.

The exhibit is co-curated by Meg Handler, former photo editor of The Village Voice, historian Tamar Carroll, author of Mobilizing New York: AIDS, Antipoverty and Feminist Activism, and Mike Kamber, founder of the Bronx Documentary Center (BDC). The exhibit was designed and produced by the BDC’s Cynthia Rivera and Bianca Farrow.

FEATURED PHOTOGRAPHERS:
Nina Berman, Bill Biggart, Donna Binder, Donna DeCesare, Maximo Colón, Ricky Flores, Frank Fournier, David Gonzalez, Lori Grinker, James Hamilton, Meg Handler, Lisa Kahane, Mike Kamber, Gabe Kirchheimer, Carolina Kroon, Corky Lee, Meryl Levin, Andrew Lichtenstein, Tracey Litt, Dona Ann McAdams, Thomas McGovern, Tomas Muscionico, Marilyn Nance, Edwin Pagán, Brian Palmer, Clayton Patterson, Mark Peterson, Sandra-Lee Phipps, Sylvia Plachy, Alon Reininger, Richard Renaldi, Clarence Elie-Rivera, Joseph Rodriguez, Linda Rosier, Q. Sakamaki, Richard Sandler, Catherine Smith and Les Stone.

Please join us for the summer OPEN SHOW NEW YORK screening on Tuesday, July 18th.

OPEN SHOW NEW YORK organizes FREE curated screenings of diverse, compelling work by photographers, filmmakers and multimedia producers in high-profile spaces. OPEN SHOW NY is a part of a global network with the mission to provide an opportunity for the public to interact directly with visual artists and talk about their work.

Join The Bronx Queer Forum for the second installment of their LGBTQ Summer Screenings for Kiki at the Bronx Documentary Center on Thursday, July 20th at 7pm!

Kiki, a documentary film by Sara Jordeno, explores the contemporary LGBTQ vogue scene 25 years after Paris is Burning was released. 

While much has changed since the launch of that groundbreaking documentary, Kiki shows that despite the tremendous gains in LGBTQ rights gained, many of the struggles still remain the same.

Immediately after the screening, we'll have a special performance by Slim Ninja from the iconic House of Nina.

Voguing before, during, and after the film is welcome and encouraged so come and be yourself!

Free and open to all.

Join award-winning photographer Giles Duley for a talk and slideshow. The gift of a camera changed the course of Giles’ life; he started out as a fashion photographer but moved to a career documenting humanitarian issues and the consequences of conflict. In 2011, whilst working in Afganistan, Giles was injured by a landmine. Despite his serious injuries, Giles continues to dedicate his life to telling stories through photography. 

He will talk about his current project Legacy of War, which documents the long-term impact of conflict on communities, including the refugee crisis in the Middle East and most recently the human impact of the fighting in Mosul.

Q&A with director Renée Silverman and film subject George Tarr will follow the film.

Refugee Kids: One Small School Takes on the World is a short documentary that follows students at a New York City summer program for children seeking asylum from the world’s most volatile conflicts.

The film presents an intimate, emotionally gripping account of the students’ stories of escaping war and conflict and resettling in America, chronicling their triumphs and setbacks as their lives unfold over the course of one formative summer. Learn more at: refugeekidsfilm.com

Held in conjunction with the current exhibition The Dream by Fabio Bucciarelli. 

Suggested donation: Bronx residents $5, general $10, 18-and-under free.

*Please note this event is NOT HELD at the BDC.

The goal of our 3rd annual Gentrification Conference is to educate, strategize and plan community resistance to gentrification. 

Join us for a day of film screenings and a panel discussion that will provide South Bronx residents with the opportunity to learn about and discuss issues surrounding gentrification. The Bronx Photo League's (BPL) Jerome Avenue Worker's Project will be on view. Learn more about the photo collective's project covering the changing face of Jerome Ave here: http://nyti.ms/1LnFPq4

In partnership with New Settlement Apartments Community Action for Safe Apartments (CASA) and City Limits.

Food, childcare and interpretation provided.
Free and open to all. Please contact Susanna at CASA with any questions: 718-716-8000

PANELISTS

VIVIAN VAZQUEZ
Co-Producer of Decade Of Fire
Vivian Vazquez is Nuyorican and grew up in the Longwood district of the South Bronx during the time of the fires. She left in 1980. After returning to the Bronx, she led projects for children, youth and senior center programs at Bronxworks for nine years. Vivian managed the development of educational youth development models in GED completion and college access programs throughout the city. Currently, she is the Director of Community-School Partnerships at the New Settlement Community Campus, a new K to 12 public school in the Bronx. She is a proud member of 52 People for Progress and Decade of Fire is her first film project. 

VICKI BEEN
Housing Preservation and Development Commissioner
Vicki Been is responsible for leading the nation’s largest municipal housing agency and is charged with creating and implementing Mayor Bill de Blasio’s Five-Borough, Ten-Year Plan, a bold initiative to create or preserve 200,000 affordable homes and apartments over 10 years. Prior to her appointment as HPD Commissioner, Ms. Been was Director for NYU’s Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy, a nationally renowned academic research center devoted to the public policy aspects of land use, real estate, and housing development. She also served as the Boxer Family Professor of Law at NYU School of Law and Affiliated Professor of Public Policy of the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.

RHYNNA M. SANTOS
Photographer & Everyday Bronx Curator
Rhynna M. Santos is a photographer born in Hato Rey, Puerto Rico and currently residing in Bronx, New York. Ms. Santos graduated from UCLA in 2007. Since then she has worked with a number of Bronx based organizations including Mind-Builders
Creative Arts Center, Bronx Documentary Center and Bronx Art Space. In 2014 Ms.Santos had her first solo exhibition in Madrid, Spain entitled Window to the Bronx. The exhibition expanded a global dialogue about urban, Latino immigration. Ms. Santos depicts the everyday life, geographies, emotions and realities of people of color in Bronx, New York. She has exhibited work as featured artist in Curate NYC 2013, Bronx Art Space: Access to Art 2014, Bronx X Bronx 2014 and the Jerome Avenue Workers Project 2015. Santos is currently a member of the Bronx Photo League at the Bronx Documentary Center and curator for the Instagram feed Everyday Bronx.

FITZROY CHRISTIAN
Tenant Leader at CASA 
Fitzroy Christian is a tenant leader at CASA (Community Action for Safe Apartments) and Bronx Borough Coordinator for Housing Court Answers. He has been a resident of the southwest Bronx for the past 40 years and is a tenant member on the Board of Directors of Legal Services-NYC. Fitzroy is a graduate of the City College of the City University of New York and spent 30 years of his working life as a technology professional, first as a computer technician at the now defunct Digital Equipment Corp., and later as Supervisor of Instructional Technology and Academic Computing at Fordham University’s Graduate Center at Lincoln Center. He has been involved in most of CASA’s campaigns and is currently a member of the Bronx Coalition for Community Vision, which is developing its community-led vision for the rezoning and development of Jerome Avenue. Fitzroy also maintains an information and help desk at the Bronx Housing Court for Housing Court Answers, from where he assists pro se litigants in navigating the complex and confusing labyrinth that is New York City’s Housing Court system.

How To Survive A Plague is the story of two coalitions— ACT UP New York and TAG (Treatment Action Group)—whose activism and innovation turned AIDS from a death sentence into a manageable condition. Despite having no scientific training, these self-made activists infiltrated the pharmaceutical industry and helped identify promising new drugs, moving them from experimental trials to patients in record time. 

DAVID FRANCE is an American investigative reporter, non-fiction author and filmmaker. He is a contributing editor for New York magazine, former Newsweek senior editor and published in magazines such as The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine and GQ.

Suggested Donation: Bronx resident $5, General $10, Free 18-and-under. Advance tickets available: http://bit.ly/2m9ALhv.

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Women’s Filmmaking Workshop

Critically-acclaimed cinematographer Kirsten Johnson (Academy Award shortlisted, 2017) will lead a workshop exploring ways of seeing and approaches to facing the challenges and opportunities for women in today's documentary filmmaking world.

Kirsten was the principal cinematographer on such films as Fahrenheit 9/11 and Citizenfour; she directed the prize-winning Cameraperson. In this workshop, she will provide hands-on examples of shooting scenes, discuss clips from her films and lead a tailored discussion of participants’ projects.

Kirsten will also discuss the physical, artistic and ethical challenges facing women in documentary filmmaking.  The workshop will also touch on issues of representation in the fast-growing filmmaking community as well as the opportunities and trends created by such changes.

The BDC will provide lunch by Xochimilco, the Bronx’s finest Mexican restaurant.

About the Instructor

Kirsten Johnson is a filmmaker and cinematographer interested in addressing the changing dimensions and urgent ethical challenges of documentary camerawork. Her most recent film Cameraperson, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2016, was short-listed for an Academy Award, won the National Board of Review “Freedom of Expression” prize, and was awarded three 2017 Cinema Eye Honors, including Outstanding Nonfiction Feature. Her short film, The Above which premiered at the 2015 New York Film Festival was nominated for the IDA Best Short of 2016. Kirsten’s camerawork appears in the Cannes premiere, "Risk", in the Academy Award-winning Citizenfour, Academy Award-nominated The Invisible War, Tribeca Documentary winner, Pray The Devil Back To Hell, Cannes winner Fahrenheit 9/11, and Emmy Award-winning Ladies First.

Space is limited and advance registration is required. Women filmmakers are strongly encouraged to participate. 10% off for BDC members at the photographer/filmmaker level or if you have previously participated in a BDC workshop.

Please email info@bronxdoc.org if you have any questions.

*CANCELLATION POLICY: No refunds if canceling within 7 days of the workshop. Cancellations before the 7 day period will receive a refund of the registration price not including service fees.

The founder of Foto-Féminas, Verónica Sanchis Bencomo, will share the history of the platform and its origin story. She will be joined by two of Foto-Féminas’ featured photographers, Paula Abreu Pita and Joana Toro, who will, in turn, share their recent work and discuss their paths as photographers. 

Foto-Féminas is a platform promoting the works of Latin American and Caribbean women photographers.

BIOS

VERÓNICA SANCHIS BENCOMO is a Venezuelan photographer and culture promoter based in Hong Kong. In 2013, Verónica started to collaborate with the cultural magazine, Ventana Latina, based in London. She created the monthly feature, Fotografia Latina, where she published monthly interviews with photographers working in Latin America. In 2014, she founded, Foto-Féminas, which promotes the work of women Latin American and Caribbean photographers. Verónica continues to contribute to photographic platforms such as Photographic Museum of Humanity (United Kingdom), Yet magazine (Switzerland) and Atlas Fotografia e Imagen (Chile). Veronica also works on her personal photographic projects and recently self-published her latest book, Blaze, in collaboration with the poet Cristina Gálvez.

PAULA ABREU PITA was born in Caracas in 1984. She received her degree in Social Communication at Universidad Monteávila in Venezuela. She simultaneously studied photography at Roberto Mata Taller de Fotografía. In 2008 she traveled to London, where she studied art for six months at the University of The Arts London. In 2009 she obtained a Master's degree in Advertising and Fashion Photography at the Escuela de Artes y Espectáculos Tai in Madrid. During her stay in Spain, Paula collaborated with magazines such as Esquire, DXi Pocket, and Looc Madrid. Upon completion of her Masters, she returned to Caracas and worked at the TV channel “Venevisión. In Caracas, she had her first solo show "Peças da Madeira" in July 2010 and in 2011 her second solo show “Entre Águas de Portugal”. The same year, she moved to New York where she earned a Master's in Fine Arts at Pratt Institute. In 2013, she had her first solo show in New York entitled “Buena Vista 504”. Abreu Pita has exhibited at Photoville, First Street Gallery, Rush Arts Gallery and The Greenpoint Gallery and at Getty Images Gallery in London. Abreu Pita is a member of Foto-Féminas and teaches photography at PhotoUno in New York. 

JOANA TORO is a Colombian documentary photographer exploring issues of immigration, human rights, and identity. Joana is a self-taught photojournalist who splits her time between New York City and Bogota. She was a staff photographer with the major magazines and newspapers in Colombia. In 2011, Joana migrated to the United States to pursue her career as a documentarian and artist.  Her projects have been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Smithsonian Magazine, and other international publications. Her first monograph, Masked was published in 2014 by oodee London.

About Foto-Féminas
Foto-Féminas is a platform promoting the works of Latin American and Caribbean women photographers. In addition to its online presence, the platform has exhibited at GuatePhoto Festival (Guatemala); Pingyao International Photography Festival (China); Museo Pumapungo (Ecuador) and Parque de las Mujeres Argentinas (Argentina). Most recently, Foto-Féminas launched a photography library, which looks to promote the editorial work of women photographers from the region. They have presented their collection at Para Site (Hong Kong) gallery and Art Culture & Outreach (Hong Kong). Upcoming events include Art Book Fair Taipei (Taiwan) and Hong Kong Print and Zine Festival.

Photo © Joana Toro

Join us on Saturday, August 26th for the 3rd Bronx Queer Forum's LGBTQ Summer Screening at the BDC!

This time we explore the transgender community of Cape Verde off the coast of Africa in the documentary 'Tchindas' which follows the titular subject as she prepares for the island's biggest event: Carnival.

Tchinda Andrade is considered by many to be the "mother" of the transgender community of Cape Verde since coming out in 1998 paving the way for others to follow suit. 

The Bronx Queer Forum's goal is to provide a monthly safe space for our community to gather and mingle in The Bronx where such venues are few and far between. The Bronx Queer Forum was founded by Ed Garcia Conde. 

There will be a special drag performance after the screening so make sure to get here early!

Free and open to all.

Get your work seen during five one-on-one sessions with the industry’s top photo editors. Register today!

Sign up to meet and get critiqued by the top photo editors and photographers from The New York Times, TIME Magazine, National Geographic, UNICEF, Reuters and more. You will have the chance to meet one-on-one for twenty minutes with five of the following reviewers:

KAINAZ AMARIA Visuals Editor, Vox
SANDY CIRIC Director of Photography, Getty Images
JAMES ESTRIN Co-Editor, New York Times Lens Blog
NOELLE FLORES THEARD Programs Associate, Magnum Foundation
GENEVIEVE FUSSELL Senior Photo Editor, The New Yorker
CASSANDRA JOHNSON Director, Steven Kasher Gallery
MARGARET KEADY Photo Editor, The Wall Street Journal
NICK KIRKPATRICK International Photo Editor, The Washington Post
AMELIA LANG Associate Publisher at Aperture Foundation
BRENT LEWIS Senior Photo Editor, ESPN
GINA MARTIN Photographer Representative, National Geographic
PAUL MOAKLEY Deputy Director of Photography and Visual Enterprise, TIME Magazine
MARIE MONTELEONE Assignment Photo Editor, Bloomberg North America
CHRISTINE NESBITT Senior Photography Editor, United Nations Children's Fund
ELIZABETH RENSTROM Photo Editor, Vice
EUGENE RICHARDS Documentary Photographer
LAURA ROUMANOS Executive Producer and Co-Founder, United Photo Industries
JAMES WELLFORD Senior Photo Editor, National Geographic
DAMON WINTER Staff Photographer, The New York Times
YUKIKO YAMAGATA Acting Interim Director, Open Society Foundations Documentary Photography Project

Space is limited and advance registration is required.

Prior to the review, the BDC will ask you to submit your top 10 choices. We will do our best to match you to your selections.

Throughout the day, you can relax and enjoy yourselves in the BDC’s intimate backyard patio and Tim Hetherington Photo Book Library. The BDC will also provide lunch by Xochimilco, the Bronx’s finest Mexican restaurant.

Email info(at)bronxdoc.org if you have any questions.

FUJIFILM BRONX SCHOLARSHIP
There are six scholarship spots available for Bronx-based photographers, generously made possible by FUJIFILM. To apply for the scholarship, please send the following to info@bronxdoc.org:

• A short statement discussing your work and how the portfolio review would be beneficial to you.
• 10 images from any body of work with captions.

The images need to be lo-res .jpg files zipped in a folder with your name. The zipped folder should be attached to the email with your statement or sent via WeTransfer.

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO THURSDAY, APRIL 26TH
Submissions received after this time will not be reviewed. Please note these submissions will not be judged by BDC staff or volunteers; professional photo editors will be making the final decision.

*CANCELLATION POLICY: No refunds if canceling within 7 days of the workshop. Cancellations before the 7 day period will receive a refund of the registration price, not including Eventbrite's service fee.

**Please note that all reviewers are working professionals. In the event of last minute assignments or schedule changes, the BDC reserves the right to substitute reviewers.

© Mike Kamber/BDC

Join us for an evening of incredible short documentaries as part of our 3rd Annual Women's Film Series which runs from Oct. 2-15th, 2017.

Presenting:

They Took Them Alive
Post-screening Q&A with director Emily Pederson

In 2014, the disappearance of 43 college students sparked a historic social movement in Mexico. Faced with government obstruction of an international investigation into their disappearance, their families enter a new chapter of uncertainty but refuse to stop seeking justice and closure.

About the director
Emily Pederson is an award-winning photographer and filmmaker. Raised in Rhode Island and based in New York, she has spent most of the last four years in Mexico, covering social movements and the impact of the Drug War on Mexican society. Her documentary work has been published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, La Jornada, The Huffington Post and El Faro. She holds a degree in Photography and Human Rights from New York University.

The Other Side 
Post-screening Q&A with director Griselda San Martin

The Other Side is the story of deported musician Jose Marquez and his daughter Susanna who have been separated for almost 15 years but meet every month on either side of the US-Mexico border wall.

About the director
Griselda San Martin is a documentary photographer and filmmaker. For the past five years, she has documented the U.S.- Mexico border. Her long-term projects delve into issues of immigration, deportation, inequality and human rights violations. She is currently focusing on the Hispanic community in the United States, exploring the effects of the rising xenophobic political and social climate in immigrants and ethnic minorities. Her work has appeared in publications such as The Washington Post, The New York Times Lens Blog, The New Republic, The Huffington Post and El País among others.

The Valley of Quest
Post-screening Q&A with director Maria Badia

“He who knows himself, knows his Lord” ­—Prophet Muhammad 
This is a story about the “other” Muslims. In a small Spanish town in the inspiring Alpujarra mountains, in Andalusia, 35 families of Westerners live a simple life as newly converted Muslims, following the traces of Sufism, considered by many as the mystic and most spiritual branch of Islam.

About the director
Maria Badia is a storyteller and filmmaker from Barcelona based in Brooklyn since 2008. She first came to New York as a correspondent for a Spanish television network. She produces, directs, shoots, and edits commercial and documentary films. She was a fellow at the 2012-2013 Uniondocs Collaborative Studio. She is a current member of the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective, a community of professional filmmakers with who we workshop our works once a week; and Film Fatales, a supportive group of women filmmakers collaborating in projects which gathers once a month. 

Of Birds and Boundaries
Post-screening Q&A with director Annie Berman

Of Birds and Boundaries is an animated documentary short that tells the story of ‘Marty’* a 25-year-old Hasidic family man in Brooklyn, who, yearning for freedom from his community, escapes into his own fantasies, and onto Craigslist, where he meets Annie, a secular filmmaker seeking a Hasidic researcher for her next project. What follows is the development of an unexpected relationship between two unlikely collaborators.

About the director
Annie Berman is a media artist living and working in New York City. Named one of Independent Magazine’s 10 Filmmakers to Watch in 2016, her films, videos, performances, and installations have shown internationally in galleries, festivals, universities, and conferences, including the MoMA Documentary Fortnight, Rooftop Films, Galerie Patrick Ebensperger Berlin, Kassel Hauptbahnhof, Babycastles Gallery, and the Rome Independent Film Festival where she was awarded the Best Experimental Film Prize. 

Suggested donation: $5 Bronx Resident, $10 General Public, 18-and-under Free.

Post-screening discussion with co-directors Jessica Dimmock and Zackary Canepari, film subject and former Flint police officer Brian Willingham, and Bronx Defender attorney Shakeer Rahman.

* We will be screening episodes 3 and 4. We recommend audience members watch episodes 1 and 2 in advance here.

With unprecedented access, Flint Town is an intimate look inside a struggling police department that follows an ensemble cast of officers as they grapple with the challenges of policing a broken city while nationally, tensions between the police and community are more fragile than ever. Through very candid, and often unheard voices, both black and white police officers confront notions of race, implicit bias, and use of force in policing a city like Flint.

Flint is one of the most relevant cities in America. It’s also one of the poorest and most violent. But it wasn’t always this way. Flint used to be the poster city for middle-class America. In the 1970’s, when General Motors employed most of the city, Flint had the highest median income in the country. Today, it has the lowest. Schools have shut down, thousands of homes are abandoned and those that remain occupied have little to no value. People are desperate. As a result, crime and murder rates continue to soar. And now, with the water crisis, Flint has become the focal point for Americans who have been left behind in this new global economy.

In the middle of this situation is the Flint Police Department. Despite the need for adequate resources to deal with the high crime rates in Flint, the FPD has long been one of the most understaffed police departments in America. Over the last ten years, they’ve seen their numbers go from 300 officers to less than 100. They have 8 officers on patrol at any given time. For a city of 100,000 people, that’s ¼ the national average. Now, with all that’s going on in Flint, the water crisis, a new mayor, a new police chief and rumors of civil unrest, the Flint Police are trying to keep the city and themselves from imploding.

BIOS

ZACKARY CANEPARI (USA, 1979) is a visual storyteller working in a variety of different mediums. He began his career as a photojournalist in India/Pakistan before teaming with filmmaker Drea Cooper in 2010 and launching California is a place, a documentary film series which screened at Sundance and was viewed more than two million times.

The California series created new opportunities in both the commercial space and the editorial space for Canepari’s work and led to the project that first sent him to Flint, Michigan. The documentary feature film T-Rex, also co-directed by Drea Cooper, told the story of teenage Olympic boxer and Flint native, Claressa "T-Rex" Shields. T-Rex premiered at SXSW in March 2015 and was featured on PBS in August 2016.

Canepari then released his first monograph about Flint, titled REX, which was published by Contrasto and won Photobook of the Year at the POYi Awards. In 2016, he launched Flint is a place, a sort of version 2.0 to the California project. Flint is a place consists of reportage, short films, found photos, virtual reality, interactive maps, and archival material. Canepari’s ongoing work in Flint resulted in his first World Press Photo Award and being named as Multimedia Photographer of the Year at the POYi Awards in 2016.  

JESSICA DIMMOCK is the recipient of numerous international awards for her photography and video work, including two World Press Photo awards for short films, The Inge Morath Award from Magnum, the F Award for Concerned Photography from Forma and Fabrica, The Infinity Award for Journalist of the Year from the International Center of Photography, and The Kodak Award for Best Cinematography at the Hamptons International Film Festival.  

She is a Sundance Edit and Story Lab Fellow, and her first feature film, The Pearl, was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at the Dallas International Film Festival. She was listed as one of the "25 New Faces of Independent Film" by Filmmaker Magazine and was nominated for an Emmy for her work for a Doctors Without Borders short film series.  

Jessica began her film work when the artist Moby asked her to direct a music video for his upcoming single, "Wait For Me," and since then her clients have included HBO, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Microsoft, The UNFPA, Showtime, and PBS. She is also the director of the Netflix documentary series, Flint Town.


BRIAN WILLINGHAM was born and raised in Flint Michigan during the civil rights era. He served with the US Army in Germany during the Revolutions of 1989. After that, Willingham was a member of the Flint Police Department for 20 years before retiring. He received the Volunteer Service Award from President George W. Bush in 2007. He recently published his first book, Soul of A Black Cop. It is a day-to-day account of life as a patrolman in Flint's black community. Pulitzer prize-winning author Leon F. Litwack wrote,"[Soul of A Black Cop] is a scream from the bottom...a compelling and often unnerving documentary portrait of an urban war zone in which people endure lives of quiet despair..unique, poignant for it's humanity."

SHAKEER RAHMAN is an attorney in the Impact Litigation Practice at The Bronx Defenders, where his work includes helping Bronx residents confront systemic injustices in how they are policed. Shakeer has written about policing in the Harvard Law Review, the New York Times, Al Jazeera America, Dissent Magazine, and the London Review of Books blog. 

Suggested donation: $5 Bronx Residents, $10 General Admission, 18 and under Free. Tickets are available at the door.

Our venue is on the ground floor and is wheelchair accessible. The bathroom is non gender-segregated. For further information call 718-993-3512.

FEATURING 

Sharon Castellanos / Peru  •  Jack Delano / Puerto Rico  •  Juanita Escobar / Colombia  •  Tatiana Fernández Geara / Dominican Republic 
Fotokids / Guatemala  •  Emmanuel Guillén Lozano  / Mexico • Félix Márquez / Mexico •  Francesca von Rabenau O'Reilly / Puerto Rico • Mauricio Palos / Mexico  •  Erika P. Rodriguez / Puerto Rico •  Misha Vallejo / Ecuador  •  Carlos Villalón / Colombia 

           
© Tatiana Fernández Geara / Dominican Republic                                              © Carlos Villalon / Colombia

The event will take place in the Bronx’s Melrose neighborhood, one of New York's fastest growing and most dynamic communities. With installations in parks, schools, gardens and along city sidewalks, an estimated 50,000 residents and visitors will see what is sure to be one of New York's most exciting cultural activities.

ON VIEW
JUL 12- 22, 2018
WED-FRI 4-8PM
SAT-SUN 1-5PM

Curated by Michael Kamber and Cynthia Rivera.

The Latin American Foto Festival is made possible by
Open Society Foundations, BronxCare Health System and BronxWorks.

The outdoor exhibits were printed by 
United Photo Industries

HEADER: © Sharon Castellanos / VII Mentor Program / Peru

Friday, June 22nd & Saturday, June 23rd
7-11PM

The Bronx Documentary Center (BDC) invites you to the opening reception for our upcoming two-day photography festival, Claremont Illuminated on Friday, June 22nd, AND Saturday, June 23rd, from 7-11PM.

Planned by the Bronx Documentary Center (BDC) in partnership with the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, Claremont Illuminated will be an evening photography festival that will revitalize and make safer a dark and isolated stairwell at 169th Street and Webster Ave on the edge of the South Bronx's Claremont Village, a New York City Housing Project.

The photography festival will feature numerous media projections on the walls surrounding the stairwell. The photos to be projected are by the BDC's Bronx Photo League photographers and youth from the Claremont Neighborhood Center; they are part of a collaboration with Claremont residents exploring the diverse lives and stories of the community.

             

Author, Inbal Abergil, in conversation with ICP - International Center of Photography Dean Fred Ritchin, and BDC Founder/Executive Director, and conflict photojournalist, Michael Kamber. 

Abergil will present her work and sign books. N.O.K.- Next Of Kin examines the ways in which American families memorialize their relatives killed in military conflict. Abergil traveled throughout the US to meet with relatives of fallen soldiers and to document their methods of coping through the preservation of personal effects.

Small, private monuments exist in garages, basements, and storage lockers across the U.S. Families must decide which objects to keep, what to take with them or let go of when they move or as time passes.

Join us for Bomba, Plena y Paranda Pa' Puerto Rico on Wednesday, October 11th, for relief efforts for the victims of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico.

We will begin with a traditional Puerto Rican Parranda at 3rd Avenue and 149th Street at 6:45PM and walk up Melrose Avenue to E 151st Street and head towards the Bronx Documentary Center where we will be greeted by Bomba and Plena music for an evening of unity and fundraising.

There will be a silent auction of artwork from various artists who have graciously donated their pieces for this event.

Food and beverages will be available with 100% of all proceeds going towards the fundraiser to help the people of Puerto Rico in their darkest hour of need.

We ask for a $10 donation at the door or 1 needed supplies such as bottled water, batteries, first aid kits, gel hand sanitizer, feminine hygiene products, baby diapers, baby food etc. 

No donation is too big or small and no one will be turned away at this event even if you do not have $10 dollars, even $1 dollar or 50 cents will help greatly for those in need.

• The Mix Pop-Up Cafe - Ice Tea and Cold Brew served by founder Vernicia Colon.
• Immaculate Conception Church

Free and open to all.

This event is held in conjunction with our current exhibition Unbelonging by Osaretin Ugiagbe, on view until Aug. 13, 2017.

Post-screening Q & A with director Pamela Yates, producer Paco de Onís, and Cesar Yoc.

From a historic genocide trial to the ousting of a president, 500 Years ago tells a sweeping story of mounting resistance played out in Guatemala's recent history, through the actions and perspectives of the indigenous Mayan population, who now stand poised to re-imagine their society .

In 500 Years , the Mayans lead Guatemala to a historical tipping point, from the genocide trial of former dictator General Rios Montt to the citizen's uprising that toppled President Otto Pérez Molina. While indigenous peoples of Guatemala are not strangers to oppression, with the recent events that took place over a tumultuous three-year span, change finally seems possible when their movement is with the general public will to end corruption.

500 Years is the third and final installment in director Pamela Yates and Skylight's epic trilogy on Mayan indigenous resistance in Guatemala, The Resistance Saga, which began with When the Mountains Tremble, followed by Granito: How to Nail to Dictator.

This screening was organized in partnership with Social Cinema @ New America.

This discussion will be moderated by Olivia Adechi, BDC Program Coordinator and Gallery Manager.

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About the Panelists

PAMELA YATES is a co-founder of Skylight Pictures and currently the Creative Director of Skylight. She was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship for her film, Granito: How to Nail a Dictator (2011).  She is the Director of the Sundance Special Jury award-winning When the Mountains Tremble; the Executive Producer of the Academy Award-winning Witness to War, and the Director of State of Fear: The Truth About Terrorism. Yates just completed Disruption, a documentary that explores innovative strategies to reduce poverty through women’s economic empowerment in Latin America. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, The Writers Guild of America, the Independent Documentary Association, and a Contributing Editor to NACLA: Report on the Americas.

PACO DE ONÍS grew up in several Latin American countries during a time of dictatorships. He is the Executive Director and Executive Producer of Skylight, a human rights media organization dedicated to advancing social justice through storytelling, by creating documentary films and innovative media tools applied in long-term strategies for positive social change. Paco’s film producing credits include 500 YEARS, Granito: How to Nail a Dictator, Rebel Citizen, Disruption, State of Fear, and The Reckoning.

Suggested Donation: $ 5 Bronx Resident, $ 10 General, 18 and under free

Our venue is on the ground floor and is wheelchair accessible. Our bathroom is non gender segregated. For further information call 718-993-3512 or email olivia@bronxdoc.org

Screening + Discussion T-Rex | Wednesday, May 9th, 7PM
Artist Talk: Zackary Canepari in conversation with Jessica Dimmock | Thursday, May 10th, 7PM

Flint is a place that no longer needs an introduction after this past year and it probably hasn’t needed one for the past 30 years. The city has long been the poster child for the American dream gone wrong. In a perfect world, this project would be conveying some other reality. But these ideas about Flint are accurate. Flint is a place of struggle. It’s true and everybody knows it. But that’s not all it is...

Join us this Wednesday, September 20th, for an outdoor photo projection and party.

All are welcome. The price of admission is 25 of your best pictures on a USB drive or a six-pack of beer. Or both. Your pictures will be part of our projection for the evening.

Donations for the grill are also welcome.

As part of the Bronx Documentary Center's ongoing holiday portrait series we're holding Father's Day Portraits at two different Bronx locations this year. Join us at either and receive a free print per family!

Claremont Neighborhood Center
489 E 169th St, Bronx, NY 10456
10AM - 12PM

Bronx Documentary Center
614 Courtlandt Ave, Bronx, NY 10451
1-3PM

© Adi Talwar/Bronx Documentary Center

Post-screening conversation with legendary musicians and film subjects Joe Bataan, and Johnny Colón.

Latin boogaloo is New York City. It is a product of the melting pot, a colorful expression of 1960s Latino soul, straight from the streets of El Barrio, the South Bronx, and Brooklyn. 

Starring Latin boogaloo legends like Joe Bataan, Johnny Colón, and Pete Rodriguez, We Like It Like That explores this lesser-known, but pivotal moment in Latin music history, through original interviews, music recordings, live performances, dancing and rare archival footage and images. 

This discussion will be moderated by Olivia Adechi, BDC Program Coordinator and Gallery Manager.

About the panelists
Johnny Colón is a pianist, trombonist, singer and composer. He was the bandleader behind the first boogaloo hit, “Boogaloo Blues,” and, in 1968, founded the East Harlem Music School where he teaches workshops on the history of salsa and its interpretation. 

Joe Bataan is a Latin soul musician who has been influenced by two musical styles, the Latin boogaloo and African American doo-wop. He pioneered a New York Latin soul that anticipated disco and created one of the first rap records to hit the charts.

This event is held in conjunction with the exhibition "Spanish Harlem: El Barrio in the '80s" by Joseph Rodriguez.

Suggested donation: $5 Bronx Residents, $10 General Admission, 18 and under Free. Tickets are available at the door.

Our venue is on the ground floor and is wheelchair accessible. The bathroom is non gender segregated. For further information call 718-993-3512 or email olivia@bronxdoc.org

The Bronx Documentary Center welcomes award-winning photojournalist João Pina in conversation with The New Yorker writer Jon Lee Anderson. Pina will discuss his new book, 46750. 

46750 is a visual account of the last decade in Rio de Janeiro, a portrait of the so-called “wonder city,” with all its contrasts and complexities. 46,750 is the number of homicides that occurred in Rio de Janeiro’s metropolitan area during the decade between 2007 and 2016, while Brazil hosted both the World Cup and the Olympics, an average of 13 homicides per day.

Joao Pina spent ten years on this body of work, parts of which have been published in The New Yorker, Stern Magazine, El Pais Semanal and The New York Times. The work has been awarded with Estação Imagem 2017, PDN Photo Annual 2010 and been a finalist for the Henri Nannen Preis.

BIO

JOÃO PINA is a freelance photographer born in Portugal in 1980. He began working as a professional photographer at age eighteen and graduated from the International Center of Photography’s Photojournalism and Documentary Photography program in New York in 2005. Pina’s photographs have been published in D Magazine, Days Japan, El Pais, Expresso, GEO, La Vanguardia, New York Times, New Yorker, Newsweek, Stern, Time, and Visão, among others. He is a faculty member of the International Center of Photography in New York, and a regular lecturer and teacher of photography workshops. Currently, he is a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University for 2017/2018. 

JON LEE ANDERSON a staff writer, began contributing to The New Yorker in 1998. Since then, he has covered numerous conflicts for the magazine, including those in Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan, Angola, Somalia, Sudan, Mali, and Liberia. He has also reported frequently from Latin America and the Caribbean, writing about Rio de Janeiro’s gangs, the Panama Canal, the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, and a Caracas slum, among other subjects, and has written Profiles of Augusto Pinochet, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chávez, and Gabriel García Márquez. He is the author of several books, including The Lion’s Grave: Dispatches from Afghanistan, Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life, Guerrillas: Journeys in the Insurgent World, and The Fall of Baghdad. He is the co-author, with Scott Anderson, of War Zones: Voices from the World’s Killing Grounds and Inside the League. He has been honored by the Overseas Press Club, and in 2013 he was honored with a Maria Moors Cabot Prize for outstanding reporting on Latin America and the Caribbean. He began his career in 1979, reporting for an English-language weekly in Lima, Peru, and now regularly teaches workshops for Latin-American reporters.


FOTOEVIDENCE was founded in 2010 to continue the tradition of using photography to draw attention to human rights violations, injustice, oppression and assaults on human dignity wherever they may occur. Photographs have not only changed people’s perception but, in some cases, altered the course of history.

For seven years, the FotoEvidence Book Award recognized one photographer whose work demonstrates vision and commitment in the pursuit of social justice and in 2017, FotoEvidence partnered with World Press Photo. The book award was renamed the FotoEvidence Book Award with World Press Photo. The selected project is published by FotoEvidence as part of a series of photo books dedicated to the work of photographers, whose commitment and courage deliver painful truths, creating awareness and intolerance towards violations of human dignity.

 © João Pina

Suggested donation: $5 Bronx Residents, $10 General Admission, 18 and under Free. Tickets are available at the door.

Our venue is on the ground floor and is wheelchair accessible. The bathroom is non-gender segregated. For further information call 718-993-3512.

FEATURING

Justin Arroyo | Jada Arroyo | Tony Baizan | Kayla Beltran | Justin Brefo | Zarah Browne | Elisa Luna Cameron | Anastasia Cordona | Naomi Carrero | Bianca Colón | Mitchell Dennis | Fanta Diop | Cinthia Biannel Encarnacion Rodriguez | Fritzi Garcia | Alberto Garcia | Natasha Gil-Victorio | Jennifer Hernandez | Hailey Inoa | Diego Lozano | Julie Lozano | Tianna Maldonado | Shaeela Martinez | Agnes Ollivier-Yamin | Chloe Rodriguez | Ruby Simon | Janiyah Terry | Dylan Velez | Kalise Williams

Join us in celebrating our year-end exhibition by the Bronx Junior Photo League, the BDC’s after-school documentary photo program for 12 to 18-year-olds. Our students have spent the past school year exploring social justice issues as they documented their communities, families and environments. On view will be photo essays and multimedia stories on Bronx activism; housing access; public housing conditions; gun violence and public safety; community leaders and more.

Work by the following students will also be on view:

Marcine Barrett | Ella Calzada | Danka Clara | Ivette Diaz | Nailea Dominguez | Gabriela Encalada | Gwendolyn Golding | Yolanda Gonzalez | Alyssa Gonzalez | Nayise Gonzalez | Nyasia Lopez | Ashley Lozano | Miguelina Ludo | Justin Martinez | Emily Negron | Taina Ocasio | Kevin Reyes | Marquis Robinson | Lizbeth Vizcarrondo | Haley Wright

The Bronx Junior Photo League is made possible, in part, by the Citgo Foundation, the Clif Bar Family Foundation, Fujifilm, the Henry Nias Foundation, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and by City Council member Rafael Salamanca, the New Yankee Stadium Community Benefits Fund, the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and State Legislature, the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation, the Pinkerton Foundation, and the William Talbott Hillman Foundation.

All digital photos taken on cameras generously provided by Fujifilm.

MAIN PHOTO: Bernard Smith, founder of Stop the Violence, lost both his 19-year-old son and 32-year-old nephew to gun violence in 2000. Shortly after they were killed, Smith started the Bronx-based organization in order to raise awareness about the violence and loss of life within the community. © Tony Baizan, 18-years-old

The winner of the 2018 FotoEvidence Book Award with World Press Photo is First Nation photojournalist Josué Rivas for his project Standing Strong about the spiritual awakening that occurred among the people resisting the Dakota Access pipeline.

The finalists are Zackary Canepari for Flint is a Place, an exploration of the challenges of life in Flint, Michigan, and 
Danielle Villasana for The Light Inside, a compelling story about the struggle of trans women in Peru.

Rivas’ work will be published in a hardbound book to be released this spring.

More on the projects:

Standing Strong | Josué Rivas
The gathering at Standing Rock was a dance between the modern and the ancestral. It was the epicenter of the awakening of humanity. For over seven months, I lived at the Oceti Sakowin Camp near the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota, documenting the opposition to the Dakota Access pipeline. Thousands of tribal nations and allies gathered in peaceful prayer and created a worldwide movement. They called themselves Water Protectors.

Flint is a place | Zackary Canepari
For the last 5 years I have been working in Flint, Michigan on a project titled, “Flint is a place.” The project is conceived to be an immersive dive into a city that I find more layered, nuanced and important than how it’s commonly portrayed. The Flint work is comprised of portraiture, found photos and reportage and is punctuated by the intimate conversations I've had over the years with the residents.

A Light Inside | Danille Villasana
Tamara, the first trans woman I met in Lima, Peru, often told me she wasn’t going to live past 30. How could she, she’d ask, when society treats her as less than human? Like a self-fulfilling prophecy, Tamara's death this year came shortly after her 30th birthday. Through years of documenting the hardships trans women face, I’ve realized that an early death is more common than a long life. In fact, most trans women in Latin America die or are murdered before they reach 35 and the region leads the world in homicides of transgender people. 

Learn more about the FotoEvidence Book Award and the projects at fotoevidence.com.

Young man putting down tobacco, Fort Yates, ND. September, 2017. © Josué Rivas 

Our venue is on the ground floor and is wheelchair accessible. The bathroom is non gender-segregated. For further information call 718-993-3512.

Post-screening conversation with co-director Zackary Canepari, producer Sue Jaye Johnson and professional boxer Heather Hardy.

T-Rex is an intimate coming-of-­age story about a new kind of American heroine. For the first time ever, women’s boxing was included in the 2012 Olympics. Fighting for gold from the U.S. was Claressa “T­-Rex” Shields, just 17 years old, and by far the youngest competitor.

From Flint, Michigan, Claressa is undefeated and utterly confident. Her fierceness extends beyond the ring. She protects her family at any cost, even when their instability and addictions threaten to derail her dream. Claressa does have one stable force in her life. Coach Jason Crutchfield has trained her since she was just a scrawny 11-­year-­old hanging out at his gym. Jason always wanted a champion, he just never thought it’d be a girl. Her relationships with her coach and her family grow tense as she gets closer to her dream. But Claressa is fierce and determined. She desperately wants to take her family to a better, safer place and winning a gold medal could be her only chance.

BIOS

Co-Director
ZACKARY CANEPARI (USA, 1979) is a visual storyteller working in a variety of different mediums. He began his career as a photojournalist in India/Pakistan before teaming with filmmaker Drea Cooper in 2010 and launching California is a place, a documentary film series which screened at Sundance and was viewed more than two million times.

The California series created new opportunities in both the commercial space and the editorial space for Canepari’s work and led to the project that first sent him to Flint, Michigan. The documentary feature film T-Rex, also co-directed by Drea Cooper, told the story of teenage Olympic boxer and Flint native, Claressa "T-Rex" Shields. T-Rex premiered at SXSW in March 2015 and was featured on PBS in August 2016.

Canepari then released his first monograph about Flint, titled REX, which was published by Contrasto and won Photobook of the Year at the POYi Awards. In 2016, he launched Flint is a place, a sort of version 2.0 to the California project. Flint is a place consists of reportage, short films, found photos, virtual reality, interactive maps, and archival material. Canepari’s ongoing work in Flint resulted in his first World Press Photo Award and being named as Multimedia Photographer of the Year at the POYi Awards in 2016.  

Producer
SUE JAYE JOHNSON spearheaded an unprecedented collaboration between The New York Times Magazine, NPR and WNYC to tell the story of the first women to box in the Olympics in 2012. As a part of the series, Johnson and collaborator Joe Richman of Radio Diaries gave Claressa Shields a microphone and recorder to document her journey to the Olympic Trials. ‘Teen Contender’ aired on NPR’s All Things Considered and won a Peabody Award. Over the last decade, Johnson has lived and worked in South Africa where she co-­founded Iliso Labantu, a collective of township-­based photographers. Her work is supported by Creative Capital, the NEA and OSF. She lives in NYC with her husband and two daughters.

HEATHER HARDY is a professional boxer from Brooklyn, NY and has been "fighting" to get women's boxing the visibility it deserves on national TV. Hardy currently holds two division WBC Champion Belts, Super Bantamweight and Featherweight. She trains at the World Famous Gleason’s Gym located in Brooklyn, NY which has been home to many boxing champions over the years. She trains at the World Famous Gleason’s Gym located in Brooklyn, NY which has been home to many boxing champions over the years. Outside of training, she's a single mother and a personal boxing trainer working out of Shadowbox with celebrities and business professionals.

Suggested donation: $5 Bronx Residents, $10 General Admission, 18 and under Free. Tickets are available at the door.

Our venue is on the ground floor and is wheelchair accessible. The bathroom is non gender-segregated. For further information call 718-993-3512.

The Bronx Documentary Center is proud to present a conversation about An Autobiography of Miss Wish, a collaboration between Nina Berman, a documentary photographer, and Kimberly Stevens, a survivor of sex trafficking and child pornography.

Berman and Stevens will discuss their 27-year journey, from their first meeting in London to the turbulent stages of this long-term collaborative documentary work. Over the two decades they worked together, the contours of their relationship became increasingly difficult to characterize. It evolved from that of subject and artist to friend and advocate.

Join us as we discuss the implications of their boundary-pushing documentary work and the difficult journey shared by these two collaborators. We will explore the realities of telling stories of sexual violence and abuse experienced by the most vulnerable members of our society. 

This discussion will be moderated by Olivia Adechi, BDC Program Coordinator and Gallery Manager.

The BDC is organizing an editing workshop in collaboration with Colectivo +1 from Colombia. Colectivo +1 will walk participants through the editing process and the hands on training will be complemented with reflections on how to structure and disseminate photography projects. The workshop instructors will use their extensive experience to discuss the different stages that accompany the publishing of a photographic project. The workshop will also feature discussions of Latin American photography and presentations of photobooks/projects by Colectivo +1 members: "Lucía" by Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo, "Dulce y Salada" by Jorge Panchoaga and "Llano" by Juanita Escobar.

Participants are expected to bring a work in development or finished projects. Works can be printed or digital. Please bring your own laptop if you plan on working from digital files.

El BDC está organizando un taller en edición en colaboración con Colectivo+1 de Colombia. La formación práctica va a ser complementada con reflexiones sobre la estructuración y la difusión de proyectos fotográficos. El taller también incluirá discusiones sobre fotografía latinoamericana y presentaciones de fotolibros/proyectos realizados por los miembros de Colectivo +1: “Lucía” de Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo, “Dulce y Salada” de Jorge Panchoaga y “Llano” de Juanita Escobar.

Se espera que los participantes traigan para trabajar sobre un proyecto en desarrollo o terminado. Los trabajos pueden ser impresos o digitales. Por favor traiga su propio ordenador portátil si usted planea trabajar desde archivos digitales.

Light food and refreshments will be provided.
This workshop is being provided free of charge. Donations are welcomed and appreciated.

COLECTIVO+1

Colectivo +1 is a photo collective of 5 Colombian photographers: Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo, Juanita Escobar, Federico Pardo and Jorge Panchoaga. Their goal is to seek out and foster collaborations between photographers from different collectives and institutions -the “+1”- in order to develop and produce powerful photographic experiences.

Since 2014 Colectivo +1 has been producing 20FOTÓGRAFOS, one of Latin America’s most innovative and impactful photo workshops.

20FOTÓGRAFOS is an intensive educational experience aimed to rethink and reinvigorate photo education and the creative processes behind photo production. 20FOTÓGRAFOS is an 8-day immersive experience that brings together photo editors, instructors and students from all over Latin America, in order to create the ideal scenario to build and strengthen collaborative networks; to exchange and debate ideas around contemporary photography; to create individual and collaborative projects; and to work alongside local communities and leave behind valuable resources. 20FOTÓGRAFOS is a photo camp/retreat in which the participants are encouraged to break away from the industry norms and develop strong interpersonal and collaborative relationships. www.20fotografos.com

WORKSHOP INSTRUCTORS

Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo
@escobart
Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo studied architecture at the National University of Colombia. He received an MA in Photography and Urban Cultures at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He’s a member of Colectivo +1, CROMA, FUJIFILM’s X-Photographer. Escobar-Jaramillo has exhibited in over 90 individual and group exhibitions including, Fototeca de Cuba, 42 Salón Nacional de Artistas, #20FotógrafosAmazonas/Tlacotalpan, DRCLAS-Harvard University and MIT. He was a TED speaker and worked at Villegas Editores for 5 years. He designs photobooks in his free time. His new book Colombia, tierra de luz is set to be published at the end of 2018. He has run workshops for Zona Cinco, NatGeoStudentExpeditions, Banco de la República, Don Bosco, Taller de Fotografía Roberto Mata and designs photobooks for other photographers when he has time.

Jorge Panchoaga
@jorgepanchoaga
Panchoaga is an anthropologist and a photographer. His work deals with questions of identity, memory, language and the relationship between human beings and the environment. His work has been published in The New York Times, National Geographic, L'oeil de la Photographie, El País Spain, among others. He was awarded second place at POYLatam in 2017 and won Emerging Talent Award of Lens Culture in 2016. In 2015 he was nominated for the World Press Photo Latin America Masterclass. He is the co-founder of Colectivo +1 and CROMA Taller Visual. Panchoaga is currently an X-Photographer for FUJIFILM.

Juanita Escobar
@juanitafotografa
Juanita Escobar is a self-taught photographer, winner of the Colombian National Photography Prize in 2009 with her work People – Land, exhibited in the Santa Clara Museum, Bogotá, and co-author of the book, Silences: A plain of Women published by Número in 2009. She was awarded the Crea Digital scholarship by the Ministry of Culture and Technologies in Colombia for her e-book, El llano a ras de cielo. In 2015, Escobar was selected for the World Press Masterclass Latin America in Mexico. In 2016 she won the Portfolio Review Prize from National Geographic Society for her 9 year long body of work, Llano. In 2017 the Peruvian publisher house KWY published Llano. Later that same year she was selected for the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass in Amsterdam. This year, she was awarded the Magnum Foundation Fund for her ongoing project Orinoco, Women’s Journal. She has been a member of the Colombian photography collective Colectivo +1 since 2016.

Header: © Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo

The American criminal justice system consists of 2.2 million people behind bars, plus tens of millions of family members, corrections, and police officers, parolees, victims of crime, judges, prosecutors, and defenders.

The Bronx Documentary Center and the Marshall Project are proud to present a video exploration and discussion of this timely subject. Jenny Carchman will present a collection of short videos from the Marshall Project’s We Are Witnesses, a video exploration of our criminal justice system. The video series features twenty people telling their stories — a crime victim, a corrections officer, a judge, a formerly incarcerated woman, a parent, a child, a district attorney and more. 

Joseph Rodríguez, acclaimed photographer and author of Juvenile, will present work from his multimedia project on reentry in Los Angeles. RodrÍguez’s project focuses on residents of Walden House, a drug and alcohol transitional treatment center that has been operating in California for over 40 years. Walden House has various residential and outpatient facilities throughout California, including in-custody treatment programs and services for people transitioning back into their communities.

Jenny Carchman's We Are Witnesses takes a deeper look at the faces behind the complex and highly-flawed criminal justice system. 

For his project “Reentry in Los Angeles” documentary photographer Joseph Rodríguez worked with Walden House to produce photographs and interviews of its residents. During his time there, he witnessed various programs set-up to help residents recover and change their lives.

About the Panelists

JENNY CARCHMAN has made documentaries for both theatrical release and broadcast television, including PBS’s “Frontline,” “American Masters” and “American Experience,” as well as programming for HBO. Carchman helped produce documentary films for Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese (Public Speaking and George Harrison: Living in the Material World). She is the director of Enlighten Us (Mountainfilm 2016) and also directed the HBO documentary One Nation Under Dog. In addition to producing and directing films, Carchman serves on the board of directors of the Ghetto Film School.

JOSEPH RODRÍGUEZ is an internationally recognized documentary photographer. In 2001 his website Juvenile Justice appeared in cooperation with Human Rights Watch and Pixelpress, exploring the lives of five adolescents and their struggle with the California criminal justice system. His project, Juvenile focusing on youthful offenders in Silicon Valley, was published by PowerHouse Books in 2004. Joseph teaches at New York University, and the International Center of Photography, New York. He has also taught at universities in Scandinavia, Europe, and Mexico.

CARROLL BOGERT is the first-ever president of the Marshall Project. Bogert, who previously served as Deputy Executive Director for External Relations at Human Rights Watch and before that, as a foreign correspondent for Newsweek magazine, oversees the day-to-day operations of the Marshall Project, which covers criminal justice issues in the United States.

About the Marshall Project

The Marshall Project is a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal-justice system. They use award-winning journalism, partnerships with other news outlets and public forums to educate and enlarge the audience of people who care about the state of criminal justice.

Suggested donation: $5 Bronx Residents, $10 General Admission, 18 and under Free. Tickets will be available at the door.

Our venue is on the ground floor and is wheelchair accessible. The bathroom is non gender segregated. For further information call 718-993-3512 or email olivia@bronxdoc.org

Zun Lee’s Father Figure interrogates stereotypes about Black father absence and situates them in a broader context of pathologized black community. Lee’s photographs present images of black father presence that don’t mirror the statistics and myth of the nuclear American family. What are the realities of fatherhood, particularly black fatherhood, that are hard to categorize and quantify in this day and age?

Join the Bronx Documentary Center for a candid conversation about black fatherhood. The event will feature black men — primarily fathers — who will discuss their personal experiences with fatherhood and how these differ or align with community and societal perceptions. The goal of this event is to initiate and facilitate honest dialogue about the diverse and complex realities of black fatherhood.

Please note while all are welcome to participate in this event, we will prioritize hearing from the panel members, and members of the community.

Food and refreshments to be served.

Panelists:

SHAWN DOVE serves as the CEO of the Campaign for Black Male Achievement (CBMA), a national membership organization dedicated to ensuring the growth, sustainability and impact of leaders and organizations focused on improving the life outcomes of America’s Black men and boys.

LANDON DAIS is an attorney, a political strategist, a project manager and a public speaker. Dais is the Political Affairs Manager and Compliance Manager for MedMen’s New York operations. He also runs a group called Brunch of Dads. The members participate in a monthly brunch where all the fathers and kids come together to break bread, share stories, and offer support to one another. Brunch of Dads is currently made up of 15 dads and their 18 kids.

JOEL L. DANIELS is a storyteller, born and raised in the Bronx. He was the recipient of the Bronx Council of the Arts BRIO Award for poetry, and his work has been featured in the Huffington Post, CNN, and BBC Radio to name a few.

ROBERT "BOB' MCCULLOUGH JR. is an executive producer and works in human services development. Bob has designed youth and community programs in New York City with focuses on education and professional development that has reached hundreds of students and adults. He also the co-founder of The Fatherhood Image Film Festival, The Global Summer Invitational and Legends Summer Camp.McCoulough Jr. produced #Rucker50 and The Real Rucker Park Legends.

Suggested donation: $5 Bronx Residents, $10 General Admission, 18 and under Free.

Our venue is on the ground floor and is wheelchair accessible. The bathroom is non gender-segregated. For further information call 718-993-3512 or email olivia@bronxdoc.org.

The first screening of our 3rd Annual Women's Film Series kicks off with (T) ERROR followed by a post-screening Q&A with co-director Lyric R. Cabral. The Women's Film Series showcases an incredible lineup of talented directors and award-winning documentaries running from October 4-14th, 2017.

(T) ERROR is the story of a 62-year-old Black Panther-turned counterterrorism informant for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It is the first film to document a covert terrorism sting as it unfolds.

This discussion will be moderated by Olivia Adechi, BDC Program Coordinator and Gallery Manager.

About the Co-Director
Lyric R Cabral is a photojournalist, filmmaker, and cinematographer documenting stories seldom seen in mainstream media. Her verité works explore the intersections of race, religion, and surveillance in the United States. (T)ERROR, her first feature-length documentary, co-directed with David Felix Sutcliffe, which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, where it won a Special Jury Prize for Break Out First Feature.

Suggested donation: $5 Bronx Residents, $10 General, Free for 18-and-under.

Join the Bronx Documentary Center as we are joined by great multimedia photojournalist Kadir van Lohuizen. Van Lohuizen will discuss and present work from two recent projects, wasteland and his project on rising sea levels.

BIOS

KADIR VAN LOHUIZEN is a Dutch multimedia photojournalist and a co-founder of NOOR. He has covered conflicts in Africa and elsewhere, but is best known for his long-term projects on the seven rivers of the world, the rising of sea levels, the diamond industry and migration in the Americas. Van Lohuizen has published many acclaimed monographs, among them, Diamond Matters, the diamond industry and the Via PanAm. He has received numerous prizes and awards including two World Press Photo awards. 

NOOR Agency is a collective of independent documentary photographers, pooling their strengths and committed to working independently to make an impact on world views and opinions through photography.  

Our venue is on the ground floor and is wheelchair accessible. The bathroom is non gender-segregated. For further information call 718-993-3512 or email olivia@bronxdoc.org 

The Bronx Documentary Center welcomes Getty Images special correspondent John Moore for the launch of his new book, Undocumented. Since 2010 Moore has been laser-focused on the issue of immigration to the United States. Moore’s exclusive access to immigrants on all points of their journey, ICE agents, Border Patrol agents, the USCIS and dozens of NGOs here and abroad sets his photographs apart from all other work on the controversial subject. Join us for this event where Moore will show images and discuss what he learned working on this decade long project.

El Bronx Documentary Center le da la bienvenida al corresponsal especial de Getty Images, John Moore, para el lanzamiento de su nuevo libro, Undocumented. Desde 2010, Moore se ha concentrado en el tema de la inmigración a los Estados Unidos. Su acceso exclusivo a inmigrantes, agentes de ICE, agentes de la patrulla fronteriza, el USCIS y docenas de ONG aquí y al extranjero diferencian sus fotos a los otros trabajos fotográficos sobre este tema pertinente. Ven a este evento durante el cual Moore mostrará imágenes y analizará lo que aprendió trabajando en este proyecto durante una década.

BIO

JOHN MOORE  is a senior staff photographer and special correspondent for Getty Images. He has photographed in 65 countries on six continents and was posted internationally for 17 years, first to Nicaragua, then India, South Africa, Mexico, Egypt and Pakistan. He returned to the U.S. a decade ago and has focused on immigration and border security issues. Moore has won top awards throughout his career, including the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography, World Press Photo honors, the John Faber Award and the Robert Capa Gold Medal from the Overseas Press Club, Photographer of the Year from Pictures of the Year International, the NPPA and Sony World Photography Organization. Moore is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied Radio-Television-Film. He lives with his family in Stamford Connecticut.

JOHN MOORE  es fotógrafo principal y Corresponsal Especial de Getty Images. Ha fotografiado en 65 países en seis continentes y estuvo basado durante 17 años en el extranjero, primero en Nicaragua, luego en India, Sudáfrica, México, Egipto y Pakistán. Regresó a los Estados Unidos hace una década y se enfocó a cubrir temas de inmigración y seguridad fronteriza. Moore ha ganado importantes premios de fotografía a lo largo de su carrera, incluidos el Premio Pulitzer del 2005 por Breaking News Photography, honores de World Press Photo, el Premio John Faber y la Medalla de Oro Robert Capa del Overseas Press Club, Fotógrafo del Año de Pictures of the Year International, del NPPA y de Sony World Photography Organization. Moore se graduó de la Universidad de Texas en Austin, donde estudió Radio-Televisión- Cine. Él vive con su familia en Stamford Connecticut.

© John Moore

Our venue is on the ground floor and is wheelchair accessible. The bathroom is non gender-segregated. For further information call 718-993-3512 or email olivia@bronxdoc.org.

CITIES IN DUST: VICTOR J. BLUE

BDC ANNEX
364 E. 151st St, Bronx, NY 10455  

ON VIEW
Apr 4- May 5, 2019

Victor J. Blue’s panoramic photographs of the destroyed cities of Raqqa, Syria, and Mosul, Iraq, on view at the Bronx Documentary Center from April 4th to 21st, navigate a landscape of devastation from aerial bombardment scarcely seen since World War II.

Over the course of the four-year campaign against the Islamic State, the US-led coalition conducted 14,638 airstrikes in Iraq and 16,864 airstrikes in Syria, the bulk of which fell on Mosul and Raqqa, the twin capitals of the ISIS caliphate. The cities were leveled in the fight to liberate them from their captors. A year after the bombing stopped and the fighters were routed, Raqqa and the Old City of Mosul still lie in ruins. No comprehensive reconstruction plan exists; the viability of both cities remains in doubt.

The cities’ destruction begs the question: what was the cost of the West’s war against extremism if the battlegrounds remain permanently uninhabitable? Life in Raqqa and Mosul is frozen at a moment just after the last bombs fell, the fires went out, and the US-led coalition declared victory and moved on. But the civilians of Mosul and Raqqa are left to consider the scale of the destruction, and the reality that they have been forgotten.

This exhibition is curated by Michael Kamber and Cynthia Rivera.

Cities in Dust is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, the New York State Legislature, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with City Council, The Donnelley Foundation, and the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation.

HEADER: Residents make their way among destroyed buildings in Raqqa, Syria, Sunday, November 12, 2018. © Victor J. Blue
PHOTO: Laborers work to pull rebar from a destroyed building being demolished in the Old City of Mosul, Iraq, Thursday, November 8, 2018. © Victor J. Blue

The BDC is pleased to present a panel discussion and book signing with Conversations on Conflict Photography author Lauren Walsh. Walsh will be joined by award-winning photographers, Ron Haviv, Meridith Kohut, and Michael Kamber.

In today's image-saturated culture, the visual documentation of suffering around the world is more prevalent than ever. Yet instead of always deepening the knowledge or compassion of viewers, conflict photography can result in fatigue or even inspire apathy. Given this tension between the genre's ostensible goals and its effects, what is the purpose behind taking and showing images of war and crisis?

Conversations on Conflict Photography invites readers to think through these issues via conversations with award-winning photographers, as well as leading photo editors and key representatives of the major human rights and humanitarian organizations. Framed by critical-historical essays, these dialogues explore the complexities and ethical dilemmas of this line of work. The practitioners relate the struggles of their craft, from brushes with death on the frontlines to the battles for space, resources, and attention in our media-driven culture. Despite these obstacles, they remain true to a purpose, one that is palpable as they celebrate remarkable success stories: from changing the life of a single individual to raising broad awareness about human rights issues.

Opening with an insightful foreword by the renowned Sebastian Junger and richly illustrated with challenging, painful, and sometimes beautiful images, Conversations offers a uniquely rounded examination of the value of conflict photography in today's world. 

BIOS

MERIDITH KOHUT, an award-winning photojournalist based in Caracas, Venezuela, has worked covering Latin America for the foreign press since 2007. For the past three years, she has spent nearly every day documenting the economic and humanitarian crisis in Venezuela. This work has been recognized by The Overseas Press Club, The George Polk Journalism Awards and Pictures of The Year International. Her 5-month investigation and photo essay that exposed that hundreds of children had died from severe child malnutrition in public hospitals was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography in 2018.  

 LAUREN WALSH is an expert on conflict photography, is a professor and writer. She teaches at The New School and New York University, where she is the director of the Gallatin Photojournalism Lab. She is also the director of Lost Rolls America, a national public archive of photography and memory. Walsh’s newest book, Conversations on Conflict Photography (2019), examines the value of documenting war and humanitarian crisis in the contemporary moment. She is the editor of three other books on photography: Macondo, a photo book documenting the long-term conflict in Colombia; Millennium Villages Project, a photography book on efforts to relieve extreme poverty in sub-Saharan Africa; and The Future of Text and Image, with collected essays on visual culture and literary studies. She has also published widely in academic and mainstream media. Walsh is currently co-directing Biography of a Photo, a documentary film about two iconic images of conflict, and her research concentrates on questions of visual media and ethics. She holds a PhD from Columbia University and has been distinguished with NYU’s Excellence in Teaching award.

PHOTO: An Afghan woman wearing a burka displays her business school degree, which she received prior to the Taliban taking power. Under the Taliban, she was forbidden to work or study. Afghanistan, 1998. © Nina Berman/NOOR
[This image is published in Lauren Walsh's book Conversations on Conflict Photography. 

Join photographer Mark Steinmetz as he discusses his new book Carnival, published by STANLEY/BARKER books. 

From 1982-2001 the American photographer Mark Steinmetz travelled to country fairs, urban street fairs, and small circuses across the United States, to make photographs of the families, teens and carnies that contain all the warmth and frenetic energy of a day at the Carnival. 

“People from all walks of life go to the fair seeking something to transport them from the everyday. Amid the excitement and sounds of the rides and games, I could slip by largely unnoticed and capture gestures and faces.” - Mark Steinmetz

BIO

MARK STEINMETZ is an Athens, Georgia-based photographer whose work captures black-and-white images of Southern Americana as seen in urban, rural and suburban landscapes.

STANLEY/BARKER is a publishing house founded in London by Rachel and Gregory Barker. From their studio in the UK, STANLEY/BARKER produces a select list of highly individual publications each year. 

© Mark Steinmetz

As part of our virtual BDC Photobook Conversations series, photographer Andres Gonzalez will discuss his moving photobook American Origami and answers any questions you may have on Instagram Live.

Every Sunday afternoon at 3:30PM, the BDC will broadcast an informal conversation on Instagram Live with some of our favorite photobook authors and designers. We’ll discuss concepts, processes, production choices, and more. Find us on Instagram @bronxdocumentarycenter

Winner of the Light Work PhotoBook Award 2019, Gonzalez’s book closely examines the epidemic of mass shootings in American schools. 

Signed copies available for purchase here.


PHOTO: © Andres Gonzalez

BDC ANNEX
364 E. 151st Street, Bronx, NY 10455

Exhibiting photographer Victor J. Blue discusses the process behind the making of his panoramic photographs of the destroyed cities of Raqqa, Syria, and Mosul, Iraq.

Over the course of the four-year campaign against the Islamic State, the US-led coalition conducted 14,638 airstrikes in Iraq and 16,864 airstrikes in Syria, the bulk of which fell on Mosul and Raqqa, the twin capitals of the ISIS caliphate. The cities were leveled in the fight to liberate them from their captors. A year after the bombing stopped and the fighters were routed, Raqqa and the Old City of Mosul still lie in ruins.

No comprehensive reconstruction plan exists; the viability of both cities remains in doubt. The cities’ destruction begs the question: what was the cost of the West’s war against extremism if the battlegrounds remain permanently uninhabitable?  Life in Raqqa and Mosul is frozen at a moment just after the last bombs fell, the fires went out, and the US-led coalition declared victory and moved on. But the civilians of Mosul and Raqqa are left to consider the scale of the destruction, and the reality that they have been forgotten.

This event is held in conjunction with the exhibition Cities in Dust: Victor J. Blue on view at the BDC Annex from April 4- May 5, 2019.

BIO

VICTOR J. BLUE is a New York based photojournalist whose work is most often concerned with the legacy of armed conflict, human rights and the protection of civilian populations, and unequal outcomes resulting from policy and politics. He has worked in Central America since 2002, concentrating on social conflict in Guatemala, and since 2009 has photographed the Counterinsurgency war in Afghanistan. He has completed assignments in Syria, Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras, Iraq, and India, and has documented news stories and social issues across the United States.

He worked as a staff photographer at The Record in Stockton CA, and holds a Masters Degree in Visual Communication from Ohio University. He practices a deeply reported, character driven documentary photography that tries to both inform viewers intellectually and move them emotionally, and communicate something universal from the particular circumstances of individual lives and struggles. His photographs have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Harpers Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, Sports Illustrated, USAToday, The Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, Mother Jones, The San Francisco Chronicle and on The Discovery Channel and The History Channel. He has shown photographs in exhibitions at the Powerhouse Gallery in New York City, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, and at 111 Minna Gallery and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. His work has been supported by grants from the NPPA and Ohio University. In 2012 Parlay, his project on his Grandfather, was awarded in the Pictures of the Year International and the NPPA Best of Photojournalism competitions. In 2010, 2011, and 2015 his work in Afghanistan was honored in Pictures of the Year International. In 2017 he garnered three awards in the Pictures of the Year International.

HEADER: © Ross McDonell 
PHOTO: Devastation surrounds the Al Nouri Mosque, famous as the site where ISIS declared it's caliphate, in the Old City of Mosul, Iraq, Monday November 5, 2018. © Victor J. Blue

This year we have curated our 5th Annual Women's Film Series around the stories of the Bronx as told by women documentary filmmakers. 

After Maria, directed by Nadia Hallgren, is about the aftermath of Hurricane Maria’s catastrophic destruction in 2017. Three Puerto Rican women and their families are caught between worlds as their FEMA housing assistance in New York expires. Hallgren will take part in a Q&A following the screening.

With the threat of homelessness on the horizon, After Maria follows as they fight to keep their families together and weather the emotional effects from displacement.

Director
NADIA HALLGREN is an award-winning filmmaker and director of photography from The Bronx, New York. Her vérité cinematography credits include Trouble The Water, Trapped, and Motherland. Hallgren’s episodic series won the Special Jury Prize at SXSW 2018, and she is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

The BDC's 5th Annual Women's Film Series was curated by Jon Santiago.

PHOTO: © After Maria 

BDC
614 Courtlandt Ave, Bronx, NY 10451

A Gentle Magic explores the resurgence in skin-lightening products in South Africa as an in-road to the country’s changing social landscape.

Skin-bleaching is a multi-billion dollar global industry and a contentious issue fraught with racial, historical, political, and public health implications. In this probing documentary, directors Tseliso Monaheng and Lerato Mbangeni interweave psychology, anthropology, and personal, first-hand testimonies to shed light on a complex cultural phenomenon that affects millions of people in South Africa alone.

Post-screening discussion with one of the film’s producers Graeme Aegerter to follow. Moderated by Freda Frimpong, CEO of KUUMBA Media.
 

BIO

Producer
GRAEME AEGERTER is a documentary filmmaker and photographer based in Los Angeles. As a young queer filmmaker, Graeme is dedicated to highlighting the voices of underrepresented and marginalized communities through intimate storytelling. His documentaries have shown at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Afropunk Festival Johannesburg, New York African Film Festival, Durango Independent Film Festival, and more.

Moderator
FREDA FRIMPONG is CEO of KUUMBA Media. Freda is a media professional with experience in acting, writing, producing and under her company, KUUMBA Media, film distribution can be added to the list. KUUMBA Media is a video-on-demand platform for the latest African cinema. The company is founded by Freda and is operated by her and a small Afro-centric team between Brooklyn, New York, and Accra, Ghana. Freda is a Ghanaian-American, based in New York City and Accra. Her goal is to find the bridge between media and technology that compliments the African educational and entertainment sectors. She holds a Masters in Business Administration from Bryant University and is currently pursuing Computer Science as her second masters at Long Island University - Brooklyn Campus. For more info, you can go to www.watchkuumba.com and you reach her at hello@watchkuumba.com

Held in conjunction with one of our current exhibitions at the BDC's 614 Courtlandt Ave gallery Transitions: South Africa | Market Photo Workshop. On view until May 26th.

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PHOTO: © A Gentle Magic

Featuring photography and films by students from the Bronx Junior Photo League, NYU's Gallatin School, and Eugene Lang College.

What has quarantine looked and felt like for this age group? How has it transformed their creative practice? How do photography and filmmaking give expression to their personal hopes and feelings as well as larger social and political concerns?

Join us for an online student-led panel discussion of these issues, and to celebrate the powerful work Gen Z students have made during the quarantine.

Presentaremos Fotografias y peliculas de estudiantes de la Bronx Junior Photo League , NYU's Gallatin School, y Eugene Lang College.

¿Como es la visión y el sentir de la cuarentena en este grupo de edad? Cómo ha transformado sus prácticas creativas? ¿Cómo la fotografía y el cine expresan sus esperanzas y sentimientos personales, así como las preocupaciones sociales y políticas más importantes?

Únase a nosotros al  panel de discusión en línea dirigido por estudiantes sobre estos temas, y para celebrar el poderoso trabajo que los estudiantes de la Generación Z han hecho durante la cuarentena.

MAIN IMAGE: Basketball hoops removed from parks to stop people from congregating in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. April 5, 2020. © Sarah Messinger

This year we have curated our 5th Annual Women's Film Series around the stories of the Bronx as told by women documentary filmmakers. 

In the 1970s, the Bronx was on fire. Left unprotected by the city government, nearly a half-million people were displaced as their close-knit, multiethnic neighborhood burned, reducing the community to rubble. While insidious government policies caused the devastation, Black and Latino residents bore the blame.

In this story of hope and resistance, Bronx native Vivian Vazquez exposes the truth about the borough’s sordid history and reveals how her embattled and maligned community chose to resist, remain and rebuild.

This event is co-sponsored with Boogie Down Books a curated pop-up bookshop inspired by Decade of Fire.

Co-Director
VIVIAN VÁZQUEZ IRIZARRY is an educator and facilitator, Vázquez Irizarry ran educational and youth leadership development programs at the Coro Foundation and BronxWorks, and is currently the director of community-school partnerships at the New Settlement Community Campus. Vázquez Irizarry managed educational youth development models in GED completion and college access programs across New York City. A former member of the National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights, she is a member of 52 People for Progress, a community organization that saved her childhood playground and revitalized the South Bronx for the last 35 years.

Co-Director
GRETCHEN HILDEBRAN is a documentary filmmaker and editor whose work lives at the intersection of politics, policy, and human experience. Her credits include “Worth Saving” and “Out in the Outland.” She has also made a series of short documentaries used to educate communities across the country about life-saving interventions such as needle exchange and overdose prevention.

BOOGIE DOWN BOOKS
Boogie Down Books is a bookstore-without-walls for kids, teens, families, and educators in the Bronx and beyond. Learn more at boogiedownbooks.com

The 5th Annual Women's Film Series was curated by Jon Santiago.

PHOTO: © Decade of Fire

Join Jerome Foundation’s President Ben Cameron to learn more about the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship: a two-year, $50,000 flexible Fellowship open to early-career artists in all artistic disciplines.

Fellows must be residents of Minnesota or the 5 boroughs of New York City. Learn more about the funding, who is eligible, and how to apply—and stay for the Q&A session.

The deadline to apply is Wednesday, May 6, 4pm Central/5pm Eastern. 

For more information about the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship program visit the Jerome Foundation website here or download a PDF of the guidelines here.

PHOTO: 2019 Fellow Antonio Duke. © Jerome Foundation

For our 6th Annual Women’s Film Series we have selected a lineup of films focusing on agents of change, women who are playing critical, big picture roles during challenging times.

Due to the COVID pandemic, our series this year will not include the screening of the films. It will consist of virtual Q&As/conversations with the directors of the films and those who worked on it with them.  

The films are available on major streaming platforms, some of which require subscriptions, and others are available to watch for free on Youtube.

Please check out the schedule below:

A Love Song for Latasha
Friday, October 16th, 6PM EST
Watch the panel discussion above or here

Nearly three decades later, director Sophia Nahli Allison’s A LOVE SONG FOR LATASHA removes Latasha from the context of her death and rebuilds an archive of a promising life lost. Oral history and memories from Latasha’s best friend and cousin converge in a dreamlike portrait that shows the impact one brief but brilliant life can have. 

Please join us on Friday, October 16th, 6PM EST for a virtual Q&A and discussion with director Sophia Nahli Allison and creative producer Janice Duncan. 

The film is available to watch on Netflix with a subscription. 

SOPHIA NAHLIA ALLISON is a black queer radical dreamer, experimental documentary filmmaker, and photographer. She disrupts conventional documentary methods by reimagining the archives and excavating hidden truths. A meditation of the spirit, her work conjures ancestral memories to explore the intersection of fiction and non-fiction storytelling. She is a 2020 United States Artist Fellow in Film.  

JANICE DUNCAN is a Black queer writer, director, and creative producer from Detroit, MI. She creates avant-garde ways of articulating diverse experiences that inspire people towards greater self-value, Black Queer feminism, radical liberation, and unconditional empathy for life and planet Earth. 

Becoming
Saturday, October 17th, 6PM EST
Watch the panel discussion above or here

Directed by Nadia Hallgren, Becoming is an intimate documentary following former first lady Michelle Obama, looking at her life, hopes and connection with others as she tours with her book "Becoming."

Please join us on Saturday, October 17th, 6PM EST for our virtual Q&A and discussion with Nadia Halgren, as she answers any questions you may have about the production of Becoming as well as her work as a documentary filmmaker and director of photography. 

The film is available to watch on Netflix with a subscription.

NADIA HALLGREN is an award-winning filmmaker and director of photography from the Bronx, New York. Her vérité cinematography credits include Trouble The Water, Trapped, and Motherland. Hallgren’s episodic series won the Special Jury Prize at SXSW 2018, and she is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

All In: The Fight for Democracy
Saturday, October 24th, 6PM EST
Watch the panel discussion above or here

All In: The Fight for Democracy examines the issue of voter suppression in the US. The film interweaves personal experiences with activism and historical insight to expose a problem that has corrupted our country from the beginning. With the expertise of Stacey Abrams, the film offers an insider’s look into the barriers to voting.

Please join us on Saturday, October 24th, at 6PM EST for a short virtual Q&A discussion with co-director Lisa Cortes.

The film is available to watch on Amazon Prime Video with a subscription. 

LISA CORTES is a producer and director, known for The Remix: Hip Hop X Fashion (2019), Precious (2009), and The Woodsman (2004).

In August 2012, mine workers in one of South Africa's biggest platinum mines began a wildcat strike for better wages. Six days into the strike, the police used live ammunition to brutally suppress it, killing 34 and injuring many more. The police insisted that they shot in self-defense. Miners Shot Down tells a different story, one that unfolds in real time over seven days, like a ticking time bomb.

The film weaves together the central point of view of three strike leaders, Mambush, Tholakele and Mzoxolo, with compelling police footage, archival TV footage and interviews with lawyers representing the miners in the ensuing commission of inquiry into the massacre. What emerges is a tragedy that arises out of the deep fault lines in South Africa's nascent democracy, of enduring poverty and a 20-year-old, unfulfilled promise of a better life for all.

A campaigning film, beautifully shot, sensitively told and accompanied by a haunting soundtrack, Miners Shot Down reveals how far the African National Congress has strayed from its progressive liberationist roots.

There will be post-screening discussion with the film’s director Rehad Desai.

BIO
REHAD DESAI is a Producer and Director who runs his own company, Uhuru Productions. Following his return from political exile in the United Kingdom, Rehad worked as a trade union organiser, a health and safety and media officer for a chemical workers union and as a Director of a HIV prevention NGO. In 1997 he completed his Masters Degree in Social History at the University of the Witwatersrand. Rehad then entered the TV and film industry as a current affairs journalist, and soon after changed his focus to historical and socio-political documentary film. In 2009 he completed a post graduate diploma in documentary through Eurodoc. Since, he has produced over 20 documentaries, many he directed himself. These films have been broadcast internationally and accepted into numerous festivals. His last film Miners Shot Down has won local and international critical acclaim garnering over 25 prizes including the Taco Keiper award for investigative journalism and an International Emmy for best documentary. He is also a well known social justice activist that chairs the Human Rights Media Trust and the South Africa Screen Federation.

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FEATURING
Patrick Brown |  Mikael Owunna  |  Fausto Podavini

Winner of the 2019 FotoEvidence Book Award with World Press Photo
Patrick Brown | "No Place on Earth"

No Place on Earth by Patrick Brown is the recipient of the 2019 FotoEvidence Book Award with World Press Photo. The Book Award is given each year to a photographer whose work demonstrates courage and commitment in documenting social injustice.

Since 2017, photographer Patrick Brown has documented the world's fastest-growing refugee crisis and one of the most rapid human outflows in recent history. Risking death at sea or on foot, more than 700,000 Rohingya fled the destruction of their homes and persecution in the northern Rakhine State of Myanmar for neighboring Bangladesh. Arriving at the makeshift camps, most refugees reported harrowingly consistent stories of murder and rape, all of which testify to a deliberate campaign of eradication. 



No Place On Earth provides an intimate portrait of the survivors of the recent persecution and their bleak conditions in overcrowded refugee camps.

The publication of the book No Place on Earth was made possible with the support of: Pulitzer Center, Grodzins Fund, Fujifilm, World Press Photo, Fortify Rights.

The hardcover book No Place On Earth contains 98 colour photographs with associated texts by Jason Motlagh an introduction by Matthew Smith director of Fortify Rights and the design by the renowned book designer Stuart Smith. Learn more about the book here.


FINALISTS

Finalist of the 2019 FotoEvidence Book Award with World Press Photo
Mikael Owunna | "Limitless Africans"

The work is a collaborative response between the photographer and his community, to re-define what it means to be an immigrant, African and queer in North America and Europe at this time. Learn more about the work here.

Finalist of the 2019 FotoEvidence Book Award with World Press Photo
Fausto Podavini | "OMO Change"

Omo Change documents the story of big investments from European and Chinese countries in the Omo Valley, in Ethiopia. The Omo Valley is internationally recognized as a rare dry and semi-dry region with extraordinary biodiversity. It has been included in the list of UNESCO heritage sites. The work aims to be a meditation on how large-scale investments can put at risk a delicate balance between humans and their environment that has persisted for hundreds of years. Learn more about the project here.

Free and open to the public.

ON VIEW
May 30- June 9, 2019
BDC Annex, 364 E. 151st St, Bronx, NY 10455

ARTIST TALK + BOOK PRESENTATION
No Place on Earth by Patrick Brown
June 8th, 7PM

About FotoEvidence
FotoEvidence Press was founded in 2010 to continue the tradition of using photography to draw attention to human rights violations, injustice, oppression and assaults on human dignity wherever they may occur. Photographs have not only changed people’s perception but, in some cases, altered the course of history.

For eight years, the FotoEvidence Book Award recognized one photographer whose work demonstrates courage and commitment in the pursuit of social justice and, in 2017, FotoEvidence partnered with World Press Photo. The book award was renamed the FotoEvidence Book Award with World Press Photo. The selected project is published by FotoEvidence as part of a series of photo books dedicated to the work of photographers, whose commitment and courage deliver painful truths, creating awareness and intolerance towards violations of human dignity.

MAIN PHOTO: Rohingya refugees from Myanmar walking through paddy fields and flooded land after they crossing over the border into Bangladesh. An unprecedented 430,000 Rohingya refugees, over 240,000 of them children, have fled Rakhine State in Myanmar into Cox's Bazar district of Bangladesh.  Minors make up at least 60 percent of the 430,000 Rohingya who have crossed the border to Bangladesh over the past few weeks. Highly traumatized, they are arriving malnourished and injured after walking for days to the safety of Bangladesh. Patrick Brown © 2019 Panos/UNICEF

INTERIOR PHOTOS: 
Noor Haba, 11, carries her family’s belongings to shore after they had sailed for five hours in the fishing boat to arrive early morning on Shamlapur Beach near Cox’s Bazar. Noor and her family had escaped the violence in Rakhine State with a group of 25 other Rohingya refugees.
7 September 2017.  Patrick Brown © 2019 Panos/UNICEF

Jihan – Trans Algerian Man (Pronouns : he) Shot in Brussels, Belgium 2017 “For me Limitless in an important project for the next generations. That they can have some faces, some references and not waste time as we did because we were scared or we felt alone and/or ashamed. We grew up with only caucasian and heteronormative representations, so that is hard sometimes to realize that we will never match this limited model. For the people who are isolated, it can be very difficult. However when we have access to very positive, strong images, that resemble us or to which we can identify, it really gives hope and momentum.” © Mikael Owunna

A Borana woman inside a well is getting water for her animals. In this extremely dry area, in the dry season, water is taken from 20 meter deep wells, where the aquifer is located. The appropriation of land by the Government for the construction of sugar cane plantations, is resizing the geographical borders of the tribes of the Omo Valley. The tribes are forced to migrate to other areas, and to change their customs and lifestyles. South Ethiopia, 2013 © Fausto Podavini

Peace and Unity: Bringing the Peace through Photography and Community

Join us for an evening of community, photography, food, dance and music at the parking lot located at I.S. 219 New Venture School, 3630 3rd Ave #169, Bronx, NY 10456.

Free and open to all!

This event is organized by Claremont Neighborhood Centers, NYC Criminal Justice, Bring the Peace, Bronx Documentary Center, Neighborhood STAT, and the Mayor's Action Plan for Safety (MAP).

This event is possible in part, by funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Lincoln Center Cultural Innovation Fund.

This activity is not sponsored or endorsed by the New York City Department of Education or the City of New York.

PHOTO: Jessica Kirkham

Visit
trumprevolutionbdc.org

In response to concerns around COVID-19 the Bronx Documentary Center has
canceled all gallery hours until further notice. This exhibition will open as an online gallery. 

FEATURING

Stacy Kranitz | Kadir van Lohuizen I Yuri Kozyrev | Katie Orlinsky | Bryan Thomas | Marcus Yam

Through photos, words and multimedia, the BDC exhibition, Trump Revolution: Climate Crisis, documents the current president's overturning of decades of American environmental policy, and its profound effects on American society and our planet at large.

On May 23rd, the exhibition will available to view online at www.trumprevolutionbdc.org

This is the second in a year-long series of Trump Revolution exhibitions examining America's societal and political transformation, one whose speed, reach and consequences are unmatched in our country's history.

About the Trump Revolution Exhibition Series

In four years, America, under President Donald J. Trump, has undergone a historic transformation—one which has and will affect us all, Democrats and Republicans alike, for generations. From foreign relations, the environment, local schools, and the federal courts to voter registration and immigration—every corner of America has been reconfigured. The Bronx Documentary Center’s Trump Revolution exhibition series has compiled text, photos, and multimedia to examine the speed, reach, and consequences of a societal transformation unmatched in American history.

The exhibitions are curated by the Bronx Documentary Center’s Founder and Executive Director Michael Kamber, and Exhibition Coordinator, Cynthia Rivera.

The exhibition website was designed by Exhibition Coordinator, Cynthia Rivera.

The Trump Revolution: The End of Truth exhibition is made possible by the Phillip and Edith Leonian Foundation, the New York State Council on the Arts, and, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

Download the press release here.

PHOTO: © Katie Orlinsky

Please join the BDC, in collaboration with Working Theater, for an evening exploring our current exhibition Trump Revolution: Immigration.

BDC Founder and Executive Director Mike Kamber will lead a guided tour of the exhibition along with participating photographer Griselda San Martin, followed by a discussion among our community members on the works exhibited and the human cost of American's changing immigration policy. Refreshments will be provided.

WORKING THEATER was founded in 1985 to produce theater for and about working people (the majority of Americans working in the industrial, service and transportation industries). Learn more here: theworkingtheater.org

GRISELDA SAN MARTIN is a Spanish documentary photographer currently based in New York City. She is a graduate of the Documentary Photography and Photojournalism program at the International Center of Photography (ICP) and holds a Masters in Journalism from the University of Colorado Boulder. San Martin has documented the U.S.-Mexico border, focusing on the issues of immigration, deportation, inequality and human rights abuses through an optic of identity and belonging.Her photography and video projects have been exhibited internationally and featured in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New Republic, and California Sunday Magazine as well as other publications.

PHOTO: © Anya Broido, Jonathan Lessuk + Leonardo Quispe/BDC

The new ways of more diverse and complex storytelling in Latin America have resulted because they are emerging from within. There is a personal commitment to the stories, characters and places, putting into crisis the traditional way as we have observed from those from the outside. Now, the different groups, communities, and movements which have not previously had a voice, are increasingly taking space to tell stories from their perspective, necessary stories of resistance and re-existence.

"We are connecting to each other, and supporting each other, and I think that is one of the most important things happening."

—Santiago Escobar Jaramillo 

Photobooks emerged as an ideal platform to convey these messages in a more diverse and complex way combining images and text, archives and drawings, facts and memories. Photobooks remain in time as objects that can be experienced, enjoyed, consulted and exchanged when needed.

Latin American photographers and editors: Musuk Nolte (Peru), Lujan Agusti (Argentina), Cristobal Olivares (Chile), and Zully Sotelo (Colombia), will join moderator Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo (Colombia) to discuss the state of the Latin American Photobook today. 

This event is held in conjunction with our 3rd Annual Latin American Foto Festival. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our indoor galleries will remain closed: this photo festival will be made up of outdoor banners and projections as well as the virtual component viewable at bronxdoc.org. On view July 25-August 2, 2020.

Please note this event is not held at the BDC.
Starts: Butler Community Center, 1368 Webster Ave, Bronx, NY 10456
Ends: Claremont Neighborhood Centers, Inc, 489 E 169th St, Bronx, NY 10456

The Bronx Documentary Center, NYC Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice, Claremont Neighborhood Centers, Inc, and Butler Community Center are proud to present “Building the Bridge: Community Gathering & March through Claremont.”

For the fourth in our series of Claremont Illuminated events, the BDC will lead a procession of children and families through the Claremont community as they project photographs of the community on mobile screens and surrounding structures.

We will create an interactive experience by placing various projections and installations within Claremont Village. To build a bridge between communities in Claremont we will collectively work with our partners to organize a night parade through the neighborhood which will be accompanied by a mobile projector that will illuminate photography as we march.

The parade will start at the Butler Community Center and end at the Claremont Neighborhood Center, where there will be a community dinner, Environmental Justice and Gun Violence PSA’s from Claremont Neighborhood Center, State of the Butler neighborhood update, free photo booth, dance and singing performances, a DJ and health resources from the Claremont Healthy Village Initiative.

Schedule of events:

4-6PM: Event starts at basketball court behind Butler Community Center, 1368 Webster Ave, Bronx, NY 10456

6PM: Gathering and preparation for the march

6:30PM: March starts

7PM: March ends at Claremont Neighborhood Centers, Inc

7-8:30PM: Community dinner and programming at Claremont Neighborhood Centers, Inc's indoor basketball court at 489 E 169th St, Bronx, NY 10456

Free and open to all.

PHOTO: Second Annual Claremont Illuminated Festival, 2019. © Adi Talwar / Bronx Documentary Center

The events that made 1968 famous around the world triggered dramatic upheavals in our society. A few images, which were a testimony to these times of far-reaching change, are a lasting testimony of these memorable events.  

At the time, the publication of a photograph in Time, Life, Newsweek, or Paris-Match could bring about a change in a photographer’s career. The deflagration in 1968 highlighted the fires in Vietnam, the tears in Prague, the agony of Biafra, the blood of Martin Luther King Jr., the dug up paving stones in Paris, and the determination of African-American athletes in Mexico. If history is our heritage, the photographs discussed in 1968 are its landmarks.

By talking to photography professionals, historians, sociologists, or people who were involved in the historic events of the time, 1968, Photographic Acts revisits timeless photographs. The film’s interviewees discuss the historical links between the photographs which, as they tell stories of war, racism, social protest and injustice, portray the interwoven histories of our era.

Join the BDC for a screening of 1968– Photographic Acts followed by a discussion with the film's director Auberi Edler, and film subject and Director of Photography at The Washington Post, MaryAnne Golon. Moderated by BDC Co-Founder and Executive Director, Michael Kamber.

PANELIST BIOS

AUBERI EDLER is a documentary filmmaker and journalist, based in Paris. She has written and directed multiple films and news features for European television channels. Edler has been a Senior Correspondent, Editor-in-Chief, New York City Bureau Chief and, for a few years, co-director of the French public television news team. Elsewhere, she has been a war correspondent covering many conflicts around the globe, from Afghanistan to El Salvador, Bosnia to Iraq. Edler is currently working on a new film and consulting for with various international media groups that broadcast news and documentary programming to television stations in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Eastern Europe.

MARYANNE GOLON is director of photography at The Washington Post and was Time magazine's director of photography until 2008. She also co-managed the international news weekly’s photography department for more than 15 years, winning scores of awards. She has served as both jury member and chair for the World Press Photo Contest, in 2008 and 2009 respectively.

MICHAEL KAMBER has worked as a journalist for more than 25 years. Between 2002 and 2012, he worked for The New York Times, covering conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan, Liberia, the Sudan, Somalia, the Congo, and other countries. He was the first person in New York Times' history to routinely file photos, videos and written articles to the paper. His photographs have also been published in nearly every major news magazine in the United States and Europe, as well as in many newspapers. In 2011, Kamber founded the Bronx Documentary Center, an educational space dedicated to positive social change through photography and film. Kamber is an adjunct professor at Columbia University. He is the winner of a World Press Photo award, the Mike Berger Award, the Society of Professional Journalists Deadline Club Award, American Photo Images of the Year, and is a member of The New York Times team that won a 2003 Overseas Press Club award. The New York Times twice nominated Kamber’s work for the Pulitzer Prize.

For our 6th Annual Women’s Film Series we have selected a lineup of films focusing on agents of change, women who are playing critical, big picture roles during challenging times. 

ZOOM LINK HERE

WATCH THE TALK ON OUR IGTV PAGE HERE

Instagram Live Discussions: From Context + Life, To Method + Photo

 Year-End Exhibition featuring

Carmen Adorno | Judy Brandon |  Elena Farciert | Maria Frias | Florence Garuba | Justin Brefo Teresa Guzman | Gloria Halman | Mary Holloway | Carmen Malave | Maria Meza | Lidia Issac de Mota | Consuelo Pizarro | Mildred Vega

On view
June 21-28, 2019 

 Mitchel Senior Center
188 Lincoln Ave, Bronx, NY 10454

Join us in celebrating our year-end exhibitions by the Bronx Senior Photo League (BSPL), the Bronx Documentary Center’s free documentary photo program for older adults in the Bronx. 

The goal of the program is to develop participants’ skills in photography while promoting social connection and community pride. Through weekly instruction, assignments, and regular field trips to major cultural institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and NY Botanical Garden, the program is designed to meet underserved Bronx seniors’ needs for social interaction and improve their quality of life. It provides them challenging and valuable experiences that lead to a stronger sense of confidence, identity, and belonging.

The course “Photographing My Life” is led by Teaching Artist, Rhynna M. Santos. Around a hundred works produced during the Winter and Spring 2019 sessions will be presented in outdoor and indoor exhibitions in three locations in the South Bronx between June 18-28, 2019.

Header Photo: Elena's jello piece hardening on her dining table, 2019. © Elena Farciert
Interior Photo: Group photo of the Mitchel Senior Center class. © Jessica Kirkham

As part of our virtual BDC Photobook Conversations series, photographer Poulomi Basu will discuss her powerful photobook Centralia and answers any questions you may have on Instagram Live.

Every Sunday afternoon at 3:30PM, the BDC will broadcast an informal conversation on Instagram Live with some of our favorite photobook authors and designers. We’ll discuss concepts, processes, production choices, and more. Find us on Instagram @bronxdocumentarycenter

Shortlisted for the 2020 Rencontres d'Arles Discovery Award, Centralia exposes hidden crimes of war as an indigenous people fight for their survival. The photobook was designed by award-winning designer Teun van der Heijden. 

PHOTO: © Poulomi Basu

As part of our virtual BDC Photobook Conversations series, photographer Yael Martínez will discuss his powerful photobook La Casa Que Sangra (The House that Bleeds) and answers any questions you may have on Instagram Live.

Every Sunday afternoon at 3:30PM, the BDC will broadcast an informal conversation on Instagram Live with some of our favorite photobook authors and designers. We’ll discuss concepts, processes, production choices, and more. Find us on Instagram @bronxdocumentarycenter

The photobook published by KWY Editions explores the communities fractured by organized crime in Mexico, in a physical and psychological sense. 


PHOTO: © Yael Martínez

72 nations around the world have criminal laws against sexual activity by lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or intersex people. The brutality of  punishments in these  countries include imprisonment, torture and, in some instances, death.

Photographer Robin Hammond travelled to over a dozen countries as a part of his “Where Love is Illegal” campaign to document and collaborate with individuals facing relentless discrimination.

Those photographed in this global storytelling campaign were able to choose how they wanted to pose, what they wanted to wear and how they wanted to present themselves. Their portraits and testimonies can be seen in this powerful exhibition.

ADDRESS: BDC's St Mary's Annex, 364 E. 151st Street, Bronx 
Free and open to the public.

ARTIST TALK
Thur, Feb 7th | 7PM

ON VIEW
Feb 2-Mar 24
Thur-Fri 3-7PM
Sat-Sun 1-5PM

The BDC’s annual Women's Film Series returns for its 4th year! This year we have curated the festival around the stories of trailblazing women as told by women documentary filmmakers. The films in the 4th Annual Women’s Film Series take us through the journeys of women fighting for just causes against incredible odds.

This is the story of an American hero. One who stands tall amongst the likes of Robert Kennedy, Harriet Tubman and Martin Luther King, Jr. Someone who humbly defied the odds and overcame insurmountable obstacles to fight injustice and gave a voice to the voiceless. And yet few people know her name. This is the story of an American legend, Wilma Mankiller, who overcame rampant sexism and personal challenges to emerge as the Cherokee Nation’s first woman Principal Chief in 1985. Mankiller examines the legacy of the formidable Wilma Mankiller and reunites the documentary team of Gale Anne Hurd and Valerie Red-Horse Mohl for their third and most powerful film.