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• Exhibition | Smoking Kids

  by Frieke Janssens
  January 11 – February 15, 2013
  Opening Reception: January 10, 2012, 7pm
  VII Gallery
  Brooklyn, NY

  “Smoking Kids,” an exhibition by photographer Frieke Janssens, confronts the persistence of smoking as a cultural status symbol by using child models posing with cigarettes.

• Exhibition | i·conography

  through October 19, 2012
  Closing reception October 18, 6:30pm
  VII Gallery
  Brooklyn, New York

  VII Gallery presents an exhibition addressing the impact of the smart phone as camera, featuring “iSee,” “Everyday Africa,” “Glimpses of the Fall of Tripoli,” and “Haiti : Two Years After.”

• Exhibition | Behind the Curtains of Twenty-First Century Communism

  by Tomas van Houtryve
  July 25 – August 31, 2012
  Opening Reception: Thursday, July 26, 2012
  VII Gallery
  Brooklyn, New York

  In support of Van Houtryve’s upcoming book of the same name, VII Gallery presents “Behind the Curtains of Twenty-First Century Communism,” a body of work resulting from seven years spent documenting the world’s existing communist states.

• Exhibition | Eight Days

  by Venetia Dearden
  June 14 – July 20, 2012
  Artists Reception: Thursday, June 14, 2012, 6:30 – 9pm
  VII Gallery
  Brooklyn, New York

  In support of Dearden’s upcoming book of the same name, this show explores ideas of pilgrimage, tradition and adventure documenting a ten-day road trip through the west coast of the United States.

• Exhibition | Liberty and Justice (For All): A Global Photo Mosaic

  May 10 – June 8, 2012
  Opening with panel discussion: Thursday, May 10, 2012, 7pm
  VII Gallery
  Brooklyn, New York

  VII is proud to host Alaska Quarterly Review’s Liberty and Justice (for All) proactive tribute to Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros. The collective exhibition features the images and text of 68 photographers in an exploration of the universal concepts of liberty and justice.

• Questions Without Answers

  featuring VII
  March 15 – May 4, 2012
  Reception: Thursday, May 3, 2012, 7-9pm
  VII Gallery
  Brooklyn, New York

  In anticipation of the long-awaited book of the same name, VII is proud to exhibit Questions Without Answers, a powerful visual history of our ever-changing world and recent defining events. With photographs from eleven of the world’s foremost photojournalists, this eye-opening collection provides an incisive social, political, environmental and cultural commentary that is as moving and thought provoking as it is visually stunning.

• Exhibition | The Family

  by Jocelyn Bain Hogg
  February 2 – March 2, 2012
  Artists Reception – Feb. 13, 2012, 7pm
  featuring a discussion with Jamie Wellford followed by book signing
  VII Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

  The result of a four-year project, Jocelyn Bain Hogg’s The Family documents the goings-on of the Pyle organized-crime family, revealing the seedy underworld of these notorious British gangsters and their affiliates.

• 2011 FotoEvidence Book Award Exhibit

  October 22 – October 29, 2011
  Book release and opening reception:
  Saturday, October 22nd, 5:30 – 8pm
  VII Gallery
  Brooklyn, New York

  On October 22nd at the opening of the 2011 FotoEvidence Book Award Exhibit at the VII Gallery in Brooklyn, FotoEvidence will release Sicarios: Latin American Assassins by Javier Arcenillas, winner of the first FotoEvidence Book Award. The annual 2011 Book Award Exhibit will showcase the work of the winner and five finalists.

• Exhibition | Eye Contact

  by Ed Kashi
  September 1 – October 7, 2011
  Opening night: September 15, 2011, 6:30pm
  featuring a discussion with Stephen Mayes at 7pm
  VII Gallery, New York

  Ed Kashi talks to Stephen Mayes about some surprising discoveries made while re-editing several decades of work as an eminent photojournalist. Pictures of people reacting to the camera are often discarded as uncomfortable reminders that the photojournalist’s camera can be an intrusion into the world it observes.

• Exhibition | Lens Culture International Exposure Awards

  31 Contemporary Photographers
  Lens Culture International Exposure Awards winners
  July 14-August 26, 2011
  Opening reception: July 14, 6pm
  VII Gallery, New York
  
  An eclectic and diverse group show of award-winning photographic work by 31
  photographers from 12 countries will be on display at VII Photo Gallery.
  An international jury of photography experts selected the winning
  photographs from more than 6,500 photographs submitted by photographers in
  47 countries.

• Exhibition | Chernobyl

  by Antonin Kratochvil, Maciek Nabrdalik and Donald Weber
  Curated by Johan Hallberg-Campbell*

  April 26-May 31, 2011
  VII Gallery, New York

  Together these photograpehrs have amassed one of the definitive records of the Chernobyl disaster, creating a stunning collection of photos documenting the secret evolution of the post-atomic disaster area, pictures that reveal a haunted world.

• Child Brides: Early Work from Afghanistan and Nepal, 2003-2006

  Photographs by Stephanie Sinclair
  March 3-April 15, 2011
  VII Gallery
  28 Jay Street
  Brooklyn, New York

• Can One Story Change The World?

  A Conversation between Photography and Policy. Presented by Art Works Projects and VII Photo.

  Ron Haviv, VII photojournalist, John Prendergast, Co-founder of Enough Project, Noelle LuSane, Staff Director House Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health, and media industry leaders invite you to join in a conversation about photojournalism and it’s impact on domestic and international policy.