Past Events

Past Events

2026

Opening Reception: Nicole Tung

Artist Talk:
Sabrina Santiago

Artist Talk:
Cat Byrnes

Opening Reception:
State of Presence – Women’s History Month Pop-Up Exhibit

Book Talk:
Eutropio Rodríguez

The BDC Photo Community Circle: Wara Vargas Lara

Opening Reception:
World Press Photo 2025

Book Talk: Ana Francisco-Horsthuis

Book Talk:
Framing Fatherhood

2025

The BDC Photo Community Circle:
Nelson Morales

Screening + Q&A: 2025/26 BDC Films Fellows

Opening Reception: Evan Michael Solís

The BDC Photo Community Circle:
Film Night

Book Launch: Joana Toro x The BDC Community Circle

Panel Talk: Covering New York’s ICE Raids

Opening Reception
MyEyeGotLazy

13th Annual
BDC Portfolio Review

Panel Talk: Foto Féminas — Identity & Representation in Latin American Photography

The BDC Community Circle:
Film Screening

Artist Talk: Harvey Stein – Long Term Projects & Sustaining a Career in Photography

Opening Reception: Foto Féminas: 10-Year Anniversary

Opening
Reception:
WPOW

**Screening & Panel Talk: Gaza’s Silent Threat, a UNICEF documentary**

LAFF Reception at
La Plaza Cultural / Loisaida

LAFF Reception
+ Screening
at Terraza 7

LAFF Reception
at BronxArtSpace

LAFF Reception
at El Maestro
Boxing Gym

LAFF:
Block Party

LAFF Screenings: Julia Se Revela and Formas de Atravesar un Territorio

LAFF: Open Mic with Nuyorican Poets Café at the BDC

LAFF Screenings: Me Quiero Ir + Vaychiletik

Screening + Q&A:
A Photographic Memory

Panel Talk: Visual Storytelling in Humanitarian Contexts In Collaboration with MSF

Screening + Q&A:
Tambores que Hermanan

Screening + Q&A:
BDC Films Fellows

Screening + Q&A:
A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks

Screening + Q&A:
Death By Numbers

Opening Reception + Artist Talk: School Shootings in America

Screening:
Dahomey
with MUBI

Book Talk:
Eugene Richards

Opening Reception:
1000 Dreams

Jamel Shabazz: Artist Talk

2024

Screening + Q&A: Keeper

Opening
Reception:
Por Fin; Paz

**Book Talk: Darién by Federico Rios Escobar + Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo**

Screening + Q&A:
64 Days – Nick Quested

BDC’s Women’s
Film Series:
Almost American

BDC’s Women’s
Film Series:
Razing Liberty Square

BDC’s Women’s
Film Series:
Bye, Bye Tiberias

BDC’s Women’s
Film Series:
Talk with Subrata De

BDC’s Women’s
Film Series:
Jesszilla

Opening Reception:
Ken Light I American Stories: 1969-1995

Screening + Q&A:
ZIP Code Matters

Opening Reception:
El Salvador: Legacy
of Violence

**Panel Talk: Ukraine: Love+War by FotoEvidence**

LAFF Closing
+ Block Party

Screening + Q&A I “You Are Not a Soldier” with André Liohn

LAFF I Screening: “Last One Standing” @ La Sala de Pepe

LAFF I Screening: “Los Sures” + “Toñita’s” @ Toñita’s Caribbean Social Club

LAFF I Screening + Discussion: “Negra” @ Piragua Art Space

LAFF I Open Mic with Nuyorican Poets Café at the BDC

LAFF I Loisaida Reception @ La Sala de Pepe + Piragua Art Space

LAFF I Reception + Screening: “Mamá” with Caza Fuego at Terraza 7

Opening Reception: 7th Annual Latin American Foto Festival

BDC Films Fellowship Screening + Q&A

Book Talk: 13 Stories
of War – Ukraine

Book Talk: The
Uncanny – Léonard Pongo

Artist Talk: Ernst Coppejans – “From the Streets to the Heart”

**Artist Talk: The Queens of Queen City with Michael O. Snyder**

**Book Talk: JAMAIKA with José Sarmento Matos + Marie Monteleone**

Screening + Q&A:
Black Girls Play

**Book Talk: Hong Kong by Mikko Takkunen**

Opening Reception: Juanita Escobar: Orinoco -frontera de agua-

Book Talk: KWY Ediciones

Screening + Q&A: UNCROPPED

10 Years of Youth Education & Photography at the BDC

**Book Talk: What Shod I Be!!!!? by Jacqueline Silberbush**

**Screening + Q&A: Marty by Giacomo Francia**

**Book Talk: Dora, Yerkwood, Walker County, Alabama by Fumi Nagasaka**

Opening Reception: Through Our Eyes

Opening Reception: Expose for the Shadows

2023

Book Talk: Eugene Richards, “In This Brief Life”

20 Days in Mariupol: Director Mstyslav Chernov with Lydia Polgreen

Artist Talk: Michael McCoy in Conversation with Idris Talib Solomon

Screening + Q&A: ‘Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project’

Book Talk:
“Glacial Erratics”

BDC Films Fellows
Screening + Q&A

Screening +
Q&A: LIFT

LAFF Closing
Block Party

LAFF Screening:
Sansón and Me

LAFF Screening:
Faith in Blackness

LAFF Book Launch: Zahara Gómez “Recetarios”

Panel Talk: Soccer – Photography – Feminism: Cuerpas Reales Hinchas Reales

LAFF Panel Talk: Femicide & Documenting Trauma

LAFF Screening: From Mambo to Hip-Hop

Screening: Letter
to the Editor

The UnRedacted, with Meg Smaker in Conversation with Sebastian Junger

Screening and Q&A: El Equipo (The Team)

Artist Talk: ‘Everyday Bronx’: Rhynna M. Santos

Artist Talk: Eva Alcántara + Roberta Dorsett + Manal Abu-Shaheen

Artist Talk: Peter Bialobrzeski

Screening + Q&A: Richard Sandler: The Gods of Times Square

Artist Talk:
Nikos Pilos

Screening + Q&A:
The American Dream

Artist Talk:
Rafael Vilela