New York’s Open Air Festival

These are the last days to visit Photoville Festival, with more than 85 free outdoor photo exhibitions across all five boroughs of New York City.

Cover Photo by Matthieu Paley

Photoville is a festival born from an unusual idea: turning industrial shipping containers into exhibition spaces. Freeing photography from the official space of galleries and museums, the festival intends to make a wide range of approaches to photography available to anyone who walks by, and might want to stay a little longer.

The exhibitions feature an array of legendary and emerging artists, from Eugene Richards to students of the Bronx-based program ICP at the Point. The festival’s wide scope prompts visitors to reflect on photography as a medium of communication and mutual understanding, and the restricted space of the container invariably pushes artists and curators to find new, creative solutions to display their work.

Photovill e festival is on view at Brooklyn Bridge Park and several other locations across New York City, until June 16.