#Newsflash | Photoville Festival Focuses on Astoria, Jackson Heights + SE Queens
BY QEDC It's In Queens
To Queens, With Love is currently on display at Astoria Park’s perimeter fence by 19th Street and 24th Avenue. The exhibition consists of photos by three local artists — Anthoula Lelekidis, Salvador Espinoza, and Julie Thompson — that explore diaspora, memory, development, gentrification, and the unique culture of local communities.
Head a few miles east for Through Our Eyes: A Collective Portrait of Caracas in Travers Park in Jackson Heights. This show uses formal collaborative portraits and single documentary images by young Venezuelan women to depict resilience, joy, and struggle.
Then go to Southeast Queens, where the Clayton Sisterhood Project is presently on view in Roy Wilkins Park in St. Albans. Laila Annmarie Stevens’s images look at contemporary kinship and the legacy built by her sisters and nieces, who moved from South Jamaica to Clayton, North Carolina.
All three shows are free and open to the public. (Recommended viewing times are between 6 am and 7 pm daily).
Sounds great. Can’t wait to see all of them. But what’s it about?
Photoville Festival is back! The 12th annual effort’s de facto headquarters are in Brooklyn Bridge Park in DUMBO, home to several expos, but this showcase can be found – and seen – in some incredible outdoor spaces in all five boroughs.
Click here for the complete schedule, which includes riveting images of Black cowboys, Hindu religious festivals, Staten Island beaches, Bolivia’s Lake Poopó, burlesque figures, contortionists, urban wildlife, and other facets of this world.
Photoville 2023 will close on June 18 so hurry!
Images: Photoville Festival