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• 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 | 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 | Flashback, Iraq

  by Franco Pagetti
  March 19 – April 12, 2013
  VII Gallery
  Brooklyn, NY
  Panel Discussion: March 19, 2013, 6:30pm

  Photographer Franco Pagetti arrived in Iraq three months before the American bombs fell on March 19, 2003, and amidst growing risks, continued to return through 2008, becoming one of the few western journalists to cover the changing tides of the war.
   

• 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 | FotoEvidence Book Award

  featuring winners of the 2012 FotoEvidence Book Award
  October 25 – November 4, 2012
  VII Gallery
  Brooklyn, NY

  VII Photo Agency and FotoEvidence have partnered to present an exhibition and book launch for Alex Masi, winner of the 2012 FotoEvidence book award for his book Bhopal Second Disaster. The exhibition will also include work from the four award finalists.

• 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.

• Picnic and Print Sale | Eight Days

  An English Summer Picnic in Brooklyn
  featuring “Eight Days” by Venetia Dearden
  Saturday, June 30, 2012, 10am-6pm
  VII Gallery
  Brooklyn, New York

  Join us at the VII Gallery for an English summer picnic in Brooklyn featuring special one-day-only reduced pricing on prints from Venetia Dearden’s current exhibition, “Eight Days.”

• 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.

• Panel Discussion | i∙conography: Why Are We Talking About Smartphones?

  i∙conography
  “Why Are We Talking About Smartphones?”
  Thursday, October 18, 2012, 6:30pm
  VII Gallery, 28 Jay Street
  Brooklyn, New York

  VII Gallery will host a panel discussion on smartphone photography to coincide with the four bodies of work in it’s current exhibition, “i∙conography,” now on display. The panel will feature VII Managing Director Stephen Mayes, Whitney Johnson of The New Yorker and photographers Peter DiCampo and Ben Lowy.

• 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.