Photoville 2019 Returns to Brooklyn Bridge with Container Exhibitions

Photoville, New York's most scenic photography festival, returns to the Brooklyn Bridge for its 2019 edition, running through September 22. The festival's signature format uses cargo ship containers as exhibition spaces, hosting over 90 shows across two weekends. Despite rain dampening the opening night, the program resumed with presentations, Leica-led photo walks, guided tours, author discussions, and more. Themes range from social activism and political engagement to fashion and lifestyle, exemplified by the Dutch consulate-sponsored space featuring Harmen Meinsma and a Playboy-themed exhibition. Notable photographers include Vincent Tremeau with his UN-backed portraits of young human rights survivors dressed as their aspirational selves, Robin Schwartz's 'Growing Up Amelia' series depicting her daughter with animals, and Lindsay Addario's 'Of Love and War'. Other highlights: Sara Bennet's 'Looking Inside' on prison space, Ed Kashi and Michael Curry's 'The Enigma Room', and the collective exhibition 'Facing Change' on Detroit by 37 emerging photojournalists. A participatory installation by Stephanie Rhoades Hume features magnet-attached postcards covering container walls; Hume explained her Detroit flag tattoo, designed in 1907 by David Heineman, with Latin mottoes referencing the 1805 fire that destroyed the city.