Photoville, the popular photo festival at Brooklyn Bridge Park, is returning for its sixth consecutive year. The event will take place between September 13-17 & 21-24 and will again include an exhibition of art taken by 23 different New York Film Academy Photography students and alumni who represent a diverse range of cultural identities around the world.
“White is My New Green” by Nipun Nayyar
The alumni and student work conveys a wide range of emotions and aesthetics from beauty and sensuality to pain and hardship. It also serves as an example of the variety of ways NYFA students effectively convey their photographic expression — from fine art to fashion, commercial work to photojournalism.
Faculty at the photography school is also focused on preparing students to apply what they have learned in class and their coursework to the real world. With the support of the faculty and their peers, our students have created a public art exhibit of exceptional freshness, quality, and breadth.
Alongside traditional treatments of portraiture and still life, this group of artists has also experimented with abstraction, digital manipulation and a number of other possibilities. These experiences enrich their versatility and vision as they work to find their own distinct styles within the world of photography.
“The Twins Identity” by Ana Paula Tizzi
NYFA alumna Ana Paula Tizzi’s work was selected for the second consecutive year. “The Twins Identity” focuses on the relationship between the Brazil native’s mother and aunt, Denise and Dayse, who are identical twins. Tizzi was drawn to “our inability to distinguish, accept, and celebrate our differences.” Over the years, a certain mythology and mystery surrounded the relationship between the two, and Tizzi, a current teaching assistant at NYFA, sought to capture this.
As an artist always striving to find personal connections and sync personal feelings with whoever she’s shooting, her close family made for ideal subjects. In many ways, Tizzi feels she has been shooting this particular series her whole life. Finding commonality was a key theme and inspiration as the artist shot “The Twins Identity” and this is brilliantly conveyed throughout each photo in the series.
“Untitled” by Nitin Doppalapudi
Los Angeles BFA student Nitin Doppalapudi will be showing a nature-inspired piece of Mount Everest. During a 20-day trek up and around the majestic peaks, Doppalapudi said patience was essential due to the unpredictable nature of the climate at such heights.
“As an artist, my goal is to visually capture the essence of the environment and communicate my vision of the natural world by transporting the viewer to the destination.” The series shows clean near silhouettes of the towering peaks taken at various times throughout the course of day and night.
“Bodily Confessions” by Natalia Rudenko
NYFA LA 1-year MFA alumna Natasha Rudenko’s series “Bodily Confessions” explores the artist’s femininity, national identity, and gender politics as a Russian-born, white woman living in the United States.
“Through Bodily Confessions I place myself into the feminist discourse,” the artist explains. “These images are sort of evidence of self-empowerment and of regaining control of my absence and presence, my past, my identity and my representation.”
“Untitled” by Arthur Hylton
NYFA 1-year student Arthur Hylton’s series is all about where the artist is mentally in the moment. “My artwork is about giving the viewer a look into the my mind as i am evolving as a person,” Hylton states.
Opening night for Photoville will be on September 13th from 4 to 10pm. NYFA will be in container #15.
The full list of the students and alumni exhibited:
Nilangana Banerjee
Juliane Buensche
Pierre Crosby
Karyna Dobrykava
Nitin Doppalapudi
Stephany Fernandez
Pernille Brekke Hanssen
Jon Henry
Arthur Hylton
Adam Kasali
Rutvik Katuri
Di Wu
Qingjian Meng
Manuela Montenegro
Nipun Nayyar
Natalia Rudenko
Monika Sedziute
Marshall Sharp
Hanno Schatz
Adi Tarkay
Ana Paula Tizzi
Huimin Zhang