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• 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.

• 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.

• Exhibition | Red Thistle

  by Davide Monteleone
  April 15 – May 10, 2013
  Opening: April 12, 2013, 7pm
  Officine Fotografiche Roma
  Rome, Italy

  Davide Monteleone’s body of work Red Thistle, from his recently published book of the same name, will be exhibited at the Officine Fotografiche Roma in Rome, Italy. Red Thistle explores the Northern Caucasus and it’s Russian inhabitants, exhausted by conflict resulting from ethnic and religious diversity and bearing the consequences of two centuries of fighting.

• Exhibition | i.conography at PhotoFest Queretaro 2013

  featuring VII
  April 15-21, 2013
  PhotoFest Queretaro 2013
  Museum of Art Queretaro
  Queretaro, Mexico

  The exhibition i.conography by the photographers of VII will be featured in this year’s PhotoFest in Queretaro, Mexico. The show, comprising four bodies of work, addresses the impact of smartphone as camera.

• Exhibition | iDyssey

  by Stefano de Luigi
  April 14 – May 12, 2013
  Stelline Foundation
  Milano, Italy

  This exhibition presents Stefano de Luigi’s journey along the route traveled by Ulysses in Homer’s The Odyssey. Including 80 photographs and 10 videos, iDyssey gives life to a travel report using only the iPhone as a camera: it is the first epic novel of our history transmitted through the most contemporary media.