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• Screening | Snake

  featuring Seamus Murphy
  July 30, 2013, 7pm
  Culture Project
  New York, NY

  The Culture Project’s Women Center Stage 2013 Festival in collaboration with Poetry Magazine and the Pulizer Center present the event I am the beggar of the world, exploring the work of journalist and poet Eliza Griswold and photographer/filmmaker Seamus Murphy about the poetry of Afghanistan’s women.

• Exhibition | Rat Tribe

  by Sim Chi Yin
  June 6-22, 2013
  United Photo Industries
  Brooklyn, N.Y.
  Opening Reception: June 6, 2013, 6-9pm

  VII Mentor Program photographer Sim Chi Yin’s body of work “Rat Tribe” will be exhibited at United Photo Industries in DUMBO, Brooklyn.

• Exhibition | Odra

  by Mikolaj Nowacki
  June 6 – July 19, 2013
  VII Gallery
  Brooklyn, NY
  Opening Reception: June 6, 2013, 6-8pm

  VII Mentor Program photographer Mikolaj Nowacki grew up on the banks of Odra (Oder), the second largest river in Poland.

  This exhibition displays the work of Nowacki’s ongoing project: a continuation of his childhood fascination with the river Odra. Through these photographs, Nowacki explores people’s connections with the river and documents its natural beauty, in need of protection.

• Exhibition | Saigon on Wheels

  by Ed Kashi
  May 30 – August 18, 2013
  Opening Reception: June 5, 2013, 6:30-8:30pm
  Anastasia Gallery
  New York, NY

  Ed Kashi’s series Saigon on Wheels from 1994 in Ho Chi Minh city, formerly Saigon, Vietnam, will be exhibited at Anastasia Gallery. The work explores what had become a ritual for young people in the city: cruising the streets of downtown Saigon at night. Saigon’s motorbike craze was one of the heralds of Vietnam’s cultural and economic rejuvenation.

• Exhibition | Too Young to Wed

  by Stephanie Sinclair and Jessica Dimmock
  May 28 – June 28, 2013
  Carleton University
  Ottawa, Canada

  The Too Young to Wed campaign’s traveling photo and video exhibition, which debuted at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City in 2012, will be hosted by the Canadian Parliament and the UNFPA at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada in May 2013.

• Exhibition | Iraq’s Legacy

  by Adam Ferguson
  May 25 – June 10, 2013
  2013 Reportage Festival
  Cahill Express Way at Circular Quay
  Sydney, Australia

  Adam Ferguson will exhibit his work Iraq’s Legacy in an outdoor installation under the Cahill Express Way at Circular Quay as a featured part of the 2013 Reportage Festival.

• Exhibition | I exist (in some way)

  featuring Laura El-Tantawy
  May 18 – July 14, 2013
  Preview & Opening: May 17, 2013
  Look13 Liverpool International Photography Festival
  The Bluecoat
  Liverpool, UK

  Laura El-Tantawy will be a featured photographer in the group exhibition “I exist (in some way)” at the Look13 Liverpool International Photography Festival. The show highlights the work of photographers who explore, frame or reveal constructions of personal and collective identity in the contemporary Arab world.

• Exhibition | Photojournalists

  featuring Stephanie Sinclair
  May 16 – July 10, 2013
  La Galerie de l’Instant
  Paris, France

  Images from Stephanie Sinclair’s nearly decade-long project on the issue of child marriage will be featured in the fifth edition of La Galerie de l’Instant’s “Photojournalists” exhibition.

• Exhibition | Europe from War to Peace

  featuring Ron Haviv
  May 15 – November 2013
  Parlamentarium, the European Parliament Visitors’ Centre
  Brussels, Belgium

  An image from Ron Haviv’s series, “Blood and Honey,” about conflict in Yugoslavia and the suffering of the Balkan people, has been selected for display at the Parlamentarium of the European Parliament Visitors’ Centre in Brussels as part of the exhibition “Europe from War to Peace.” The exhibition will be on view through November 2013.

• Exhibition | Moving Walls 20

  featuring Donald Weber
  May 8 – December 13, 2013
  Opening: May 7, 2013, 6-9pm
  Open Society Foundations
  New York, NY

  Donald Weber’s Interrogations will be featured in this year’s Moving Walls 20 exhibition by Open Society Foundations.

  Since its inception in 1998, Moving Walls has featured over 170 photographers whose works address a variety of social justice and human rights issues that coincide with the Open Society Foundations mission.

• Exhibition | Making Peace

  featuring Stephanie Sinclair
  May 5 – July 28, 2013
  Utrecht, Netherlands
  June 14 – November 30, 2013
  The Nobel Museum
  Stockholm, Sweden

  Making Peace is a major photographic exhibition dedicated to people worldwide who devote their time, energy and resources to the cause of peace. This year’s exhibitions in the Netherlands and Sweden will feature work by Stephanie Sinclair on the issue of child marriage.

• Screening | Photojournalisms

  by Ed Kashi
  May 4, 2013, 9:15pm
  Montclair Film Fest
  Montclair, New Jersey

  Photojournalisms, a film short by Ed Kashi, will be screened at the Monclair Film Fest in Montclair, New Jersey, followed by a Q&A session director Elissa Pellegrino and producer Julie Winokur.

  The short multimedia film accompanies his book by the same name comprised of a collection of images, diary entries and letters to his wife, Julie Winokur, encompassing nearly 20 years of his career as a photojournalist.

• Screening | VII Uncommissioned

  April 30, 2013, 7pm
  Denver Film Society
  Denver, Colorado

  “VII Uncommissioned,” a select multimedia showcase produced by nine members of VII, will be screened at the Colorado Photographic Arts Center in Denver.
   

• Exhibition | Minescape

  by Brett Van Ort
  April 18 – May 24, 2013
  VII Gallery
  Brooklyn, New York
  Book Signing: May 2, 2013, 6:30pm

  Leftover munitions and landmines from the wars in the early 1990s still litter the countryside in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Photographer Brett Van Ort traveled there in late 2009 to photograph areas that were once the front lines of the Bosnian War. His work will be exhibited at the VII Gallery in New York, with a book signing hosted on May 2, 2013.

• Exhibition | Interrogations

  by Donald Weber
  April 17 – May 24, 2013
  Foley Gallery
  New York, NY

  The Foley Gallery in NYC will host an exhibition of Donald Weber’s work, “Interrogations,” a meditation on Russian and Ukrainian interrogation rooms, the people who enter and leave them, and what both represent.