Jun 1, 2024 | 10am Workshop: The Portfolio Edit: Curating & Presenting Your Images Marie A. Monteleone
Apr 10, 2024 | 11am Photobook Design Masterclass (SOLD OUT) Teun van der Heijden & Sandra van der Doelen
Jan 26, 2024 | 6pm Through Our Eyes: Youth Photography at the Bronx Documentary Center, 2013-2023 Opening Reception
Nov 7, 2023 | 6:30pm 20 Days in Mariupol: Director Mstyslav Chernov in Conversation with Lydia Polgreen Screening + Q&A
Oct 15, 2023 | 4pm Women's Film Series: La Madrina: The Savage Life of Lorine Padilla Screening + Q&A
Jul 20, 2023 | 6:30pm LAFF Soccer - Photography - Feminism: Cuerpas Reales Hinchas Reales Panel Talk + Presentation
Feb 4, 2023 | 10am EXPOSE FOR THE SHADOWS; DEVELOP FOR THE HIGHLIGHTS CREATING BETTER NEGATIVES WITH B&W FILM
Nov 12, 2022 | 10am Getting Close: Access, Observation & the Documentary Image: Joseph Rodríguez SOLD OUT
Sep 20, 2022 | 6pm Clase en Español de Introducción a la Fotografía en Blanco y Negro Belinda Gallegos + Mike Kamber
Aug 12, 2022 | 7pm BDC Conversations Cinthya Santos-Briones, Edwin Pagán, Geandy Pavón + Lidia Hernández-Tapia
Aug 5, 2022 | 7pm Anthony Almojera — Riding The Lightning: A Year in the Life of a New York City Paramedic Book Talk
Jul 30, 2022 | 7pm Sara Escobar’s 'Causar Alta' in Collaboration with Foto Féminas Latin American Foto Festival
Jul 28, 2022 | 7pm Conversacion en Espanol: Paola Martinez Fiterre y Jan Rattia Latin American Foto Festival
Jun 26, 2022 | 5pm Magnum Photos Cinema Night Closing Reception for the Exhibition of Peter van Agtmael: Look at the USA
Nov 20, 2021 | 6pm BDC Conversations | Peter van Atgmael and Ben Brody In Conversation with Michael Kamber
Jul 30, 2021 | 3:30pm (Virtual) BDC Conversations Andrea Hernández Briceño + Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo
Aug 9, 2020 | 3:30pm BDC Conversations: Adriana Parrilla + Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo Latin American Foto Festival
Aug 8, 2020 | 3:30pm BDC Conversations: César Rodríguez + SANTIAGO ESCOBAR-JARAMILLO Latin American Foto Festival
Aug 7, 2020 | 3:30pm BDC Conversations: Adriana Loureiro Fernández + Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo Latin American Foto Festival
May 30, 2019 | 6pm 2019 FotoEvidence Book Award + World Press Photo Opening Reception + Book Presentation
Apr 20, 2019 | 7pm City of Ghosts Screening + Q&A City of Ghosts follows the journey of “Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently” – a handful of anonymous activists who banded together after their homeland was taken over by ISIS in 2014.
Apr 6, 2019 | 7pm Mark Power Artist Talk + Book Launch Mark Power’s new book explores the landscapes of the United States from the perspective of a British photographer raised on American cultural exports
Feb 23, 2019 | 10am BDC Photobook 4-Day Workshop Students will leave this workshop with a complete mock-up/dummy of their book.
Feb 21, 2019 | 7pm Brother Outsider Screening + Q&A A master strategist and tireless activist, Bayard Rustin is best remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, one of the largest nonviolent protests ever held in the United States.
Feb 12, 2019 | 7pm 1968, Photographic Acts Screening + Q&A Rediscover the milestones of 1968 through timeless photos that testify to these moments of considerable consequence.
Feb 7, 2019 | 7pm Robin Hammond Artist Talk Exhibiting photographer Robin Hammond will share stories of discrimination and survival from his long-term project "Where Love Is Illegal".
Feb 2, 2019 | 6pm Robin Hammond Opening Reception Almost 1.8 billion people live in countries where identifying as lesbian, gay, transgender, bisexual and intersex could lead to imprisonment, corporal punishment or even death.
Jun 18, 2017 | 12pm Father's Day Holiday Portraits As part of the Bronx Documentary Center's Holiday Portraits, Bronx residents and families are invited to be photographed as part of our Father's Day Portraits.
Jun 15, 2017 | 4pm Journeys: Immigration Stories Opening Reception The work by the BDC’s after-school documentary photography program reveals the challenges and triumphs of life in today's New York City immigrant community.
May 14, 2017 | 8am Mother's Day Holiday Portraits As part of the Bronx Documentary Center's Holiday Portraits, Bronx residents and families are invited to be photographed as part of our Mother's Day Portraits.
May 11, 2017 | 3:30pm Good Hair Screening + Panel Discussion Bronx-based author and community leader Sulma Arzu-Brown and NYU professor Dr. Shatima Jones will take part in a panel discussion following the film.
Apr 29, 2017 | 3:30pm Some Girls Screening + Q&A Followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers Raquel Cepeda and Henry Chalfant.
Apr 27, 2017 | 2:30pm New York Civil Liberties Union: Know Your Rights Training The training will inform immigrant New Yorkers, both documented and undocumented, of their rights when interacting with both immigration officers and police.
Apr 20, 2017 | 3pm Tim Hetherington 2017 Visionary Award Slideshow + Discussion A slideshow and presentation exploring the late photographer Tim Hetherington’s dynamic legacy.
Apr 19, 2017 | 3pm Émilie Régnier + Amy Sall Artist Talk Exhibiting photographer Émilie Régnier in discussion with Amy Sall, Founder and Editor of SUNU Journal and part-time lecturer at The New School, about the ongoing cultural conversation between Africa and the Western world.
Apr 16, 2017 | 8am Easter Holiday Portraits As part of the Bronx Documentary Center's Holiday Portraits, Bronx residents and families are invited to be photographed as part of our Easter Portraits.
Apr 6, 2017 | 3pm Coming into Focus: Press Freedom Under Trump Presentation Joel Simon, Executive Director of Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), will discuss the organization’s global advocacy work and the United States changing press freedom environment.
Mar 30, 2017 | 3pm Murder in the 4-0 and a Community’s Search for Solutions Panel Discussion A discussion with the journalists who as part of a The New York Times series have been exploring every murder last year in the Bronx’s 40th Precinct, home to the Bronx Documentary Center.
Mar 8, 2017 | 9am How to Survive a Plague Screening + Q&A A Q&A with director David France will follow the film.
Mar 5, 2017 | 8am 4th Annual Bronx Gentrification Conference Join us for the BDC's 4th Annual Bronx Gentrification Conference bringing together community residents with leading experts in zoning, tenants' rights, investigative practices and much more.
Feb 14, 2017 | 11am Valentine's Day Holiday Portraits As part of the Bronx Documentary Center's Holiday Portraits, Bronx residents and families are invited to be photographed as part of our Valentine's Day Portraits.
Jan 14, 2017 | 1pm "Whose Streets? Our Streets!" New York City: 1980-2000 Opening Reception Featuring the work of thirty eight independent photojournalists, this exhibit captures ordinary New Yorkers as they rallied, rioted, marched, and demonstrated.
Dec 18, 2016 | 7am Holiday Portraits As part of the Bronx Documentary Center's Holiday Portraits, Bronx residents and families are invited to be photographed.
Dec 17, 2016 | 12pm Exhibition and Holiday Print Sale Closing Party This exhibition and holiday print sale features 40 memorable photographs--landscapes, portraits and street photography--of the Bronx and beyond by photographers from the BDC's Bronx Photo League and after-school photography program.
Dec 8, 2016 | 2pm Open Show NYC #21 Slideshow Open Show New York City returns to the BDC for their final screening of 2016.
Nov 9, 2016 | 1:30pm What Works Opening Reception What Works explores the global issue of intolerance through local examples of bridge-building amongst groups that might otherwise be in conflict.
Nov 5, 2016 | 2:30pm Jerome Ave Book Launch Jerome Ave documents and celebrates the workers and tradespeople of Jerome Ave, an area currently dominated by community-owned businesses.
Oct 31, 2016 | 12pm Halloween Holiday Portraits As part of the Bronx Documentary Center's Holiday Portraits, Bronx residents and families are invited to be photographed as part of our Halloween Portraits.
Oct 13, 2016 | 3pm 2nd Annual Photo Auction Benefit Fundraiser The auction features the works of over 40 internationally renowned and emerging photographers; proceeds will fund the BDC's educational programs, exhibitions and public programming.
Oct 6, 2016 | 3pm Afghanistan: Between Hope and Fear | Paula Bronstein Book Launch “Bronstein has put together one of the richest portraits there is of modern Afghanistan – complicated, conflicted, and contradictory, but always compelling."
Sep 10, 2016 | 4pm A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers Screening + Q&A A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers follows a unit of all female Muslim police officers are sent to Haiti as peacekeepers for a year. Q&A with director Geeta Gandbhir will follow the film.
Sep 8, 2016 | 10am The Price of Photography Opening Reception The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is showcasing the work of Shawkan in order to advocate for his swift release, and to highlight the plight of journalists and journalism in Egypt today.
Sep 6, 2016 | 4pm The Wolfpack Screening + Q&A The Wolfpack is the true story of six brothers locked away from society in a Manhattan housing project who found a window to the outside through film. Q&A with director Crystal Moselle will follow the film.
Sep 2, 2016 | 4pm Jackson Screening + Q&A With a single abortion clinic remaining in the state of Mississippi, the city of Jackson has become ground zero in the nation's battle over reproductive health-care. Q&A with director Maisie Crow and Alissa Quart, Executive Editor, Economic Hardship Reporting Project, will follow the film.
Aug 11, 2016 | 12pm Here Come the Videofreex Screening + Q&A In the 1960s and 70s, a group of renegade journalists known as the Videofreex democratized the future of the media as they deployed the first handheld video cameras to report and observe the world around them. Q&A with director Jon Nealon will follow the film.
Jul 28, 2016 | 3:30pm New Documents Opening Reception From the early 1900s to the advent of Facebook Live, New Documents highlights the ways in which eyewitnesses have created and shared evidence to expose injustice and abuses of power, setting the agenda for social discourse.
Jun 19, 2016 | 9am Father's Day Holiday Portraits As part of the Bronx Documentary Center's Holiday Portraits, Bronx residents and families are invited to be photographed as part of our Father's Day Portraits.
Jun 18, 2016 | 4pm In the Game Screening In the Game is a documentary that follows the ups and downs of an inner city girls’ soccer team to reveal the very real obstacles that low-income students confront in their quest for higher education.
Jun 16, 2016 | 3pm 9 Months in the Bronx Screening + Q&A Documentary screening and Q&A with BBC filmmaker Anna Bressanin and film subject Felicia.
Jun 13, 2016 | 4pm My Way to Olympia Screening My Way to Olympia follows disabled athletes preparing to compete at the London 2012 Paralympics.
Jun 8, 2016 | 4pm Bounce: How the Ball Taught the World to Play Screening + Q&A Bounce: How the Ball Taught the World to Play is a documentary that takes us to the far reaches of the globe and the deep recesses of our ancient past to answer the question: Why do we play ball? Q&A with director Jerome Thelia will follow the film.
Jun 3, 2016 | 1pm Bronx Junior Photo League Exhibition Opening Reception The BJPL, comprised of 11-18 year-olds from our Bronx community, will be displaying their final photo and multimedia projects at the Bronx Documentary Center.
May 14, 2016 | 9am Tim Hetherington Photobook Library Opening Celebration Celebrate the opening of the Tim Hetherington Photobook Library, one of the few New York City's libraries dedicated to photography.
May 12, 2016 | 3pm Rejoice and Shout Screening Rejoice and Shout is the definitive history of gospel music - some of the most emotional and powerful music in the world, and the foundation of the blues, country and rock n' roll.
May 8, 2016 | 8am Mother's Day Holiday Portraits As part of the Bronx Documentary Center's Holiday Portraits, Bronx residents and families are invited to be photographed as part of our Mother's Day Portraits.
Apr 29, 2016 | 3pm Through a Lens Darkly Screening + Q&A The first documentary to explore the American family photo album through the eyes of black photographers, Through a Lens Darkly probes the recesses of American history to discover images that have been suppressed, forgotten and lost.
Apr 16, 2016 | 3pm Nina Robinson Artist Talk Nina Robinson will speak about her two-year project Not Forgotten: An Arkansas Family Album. The work is a unique and intimate exploration of loss, love and tradition in a rural Black community.
Apr 9, 2016 | 2pm Not Forgotten: An Arkansas Family Album | Nina Robinson Opening Reception Not Forgotten: An Arkansas Family Album is a unique and intimate exploration of loss, love and tradition in a rural Black community.
Mar 30, 2016 | 3pm Nowhere People | Greg Constantine Book Launch Nowhere People is a 10-year exploration by Greg Constantine of individuals and communities around the world who have been denied or stripped of their citizenship.
Mar 24, 2016 | 3pm Return to Homs Screening + Q&A War changes people, including 19-year-old Basset Saroot, who went from star goalkeeper for the Syrian national soccer team to peaceful advocate for Arab Spring reforms to armed insurgent. Q&A with filmmaker Talal Derki via Skype will follow the film.
Mar 19, 2016 | 3pm Refugee Kids: One Small School Takes on the World Screening + Q&A Refugee Kids: One Small School Takes on the World is a short documentary that follows students at a New York City summer program for children seeking asylum from the world’s most volatile conflicts. Q&A with director Renée Silverman and film subject George Tarr will follow the film.
Mar 12, 2016 | 2pm Fabio Bucciarelli Artist Talk Join us as photographer Fabio Bucciarelli presents his work and talks about his long term photographic project The Dream.
Mar 10, 2016 | 1:30pm The Dream | Fabio Bucciarelli Opening Reception In The Dream, Fabio Bucciarelli tells the stories of those who have fled the wars in Syria, Libya, Afghanistan and beyond. His photographs reveal the refugees’ humanity and shows the strength of people who are sustained by a dream to be free of war, to find safety, to recover their dignity and to once again build meaningful lives.
Feb 14, 2016 | 11am Valentine's Day Holiday Portraits As part of the Bronx Documentary Center's Holiday Portraits, Bronx residents and families are invited to be photographed as part of our Valentine's Day Portraits.
Jan 10, 2016 | 9am 3rd Annual Bronx Gentrification Conference The goal of our 3rd annual Gentrification Conference is to educate, strategize and plan community resistance to gentrification.