Opening Reception March 16. Members' hour 2 - 3 p.m. Public opening 3 - 5 p.m.
Recent work on immigration and global human migration by:
Alejandro Cartagena
Kursat Bayhan
Michelle Frankfurter
Francesco Giusti
Jim Goldberg
Glenna Gordon
Katharina Hesse
Seba Kurtis
Gabriele Stabile
Kadir van Lohuizen
Jose Antonio Vargas
And featuring turn-of-the-twentieth-century immigration photographs by Alice Austen (1866-1952).
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In more than sixty photographs, the exhibition chronicles refugees during their first night in the United States and their lives in resettlement. This is Stabile’s first one-person exhibition in New York City.
A refugee is defined as a person who has crossed a border to escape persecution based religion, political opinion, sexual or ethnic identities. Hundreds of refugees are placed in New York City each year, and of those more than 90% are resettled in the Bronx. For six years Stabile worked in coordination with the International Organization for Migration and other resettlement organizations around the country to photograph refugees from Cuba, Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East as they set foot on American soil. Customarily, their first nights are spent at a string of airport hotels in ...