Artists Space

BRIDGE Photography

Inspired by James Baldwin’s assertion that “Hope is invented every day,” our BRIDGE Photography students—participating in our inaugural collaboration with The Door—were encouraged to seek out and document moments of resilience, transformation, and quiet hope within their communities. Our journeys began with visits to several exhibitions including Dawoud Bey at Sean Kelly Gallery, whose work explores the deep connections between African American history and the American landscape, illuminating the traumas and triumphs embedded in these spaces. At Pace, Hank Willis Thomas’s curation of Irving Penn’s kinship encouraged a deeper engagement with composition and photographic storytelling. They travelled to Artists Space to see Two-Way a video work by Carolyn Lazard and were able to meet the artist and discuss what it means to be a working artist in New York City in 2025. They walked the streets of the Lower East Side, along the scenic Hudson River Park, and along the High Line. Riding the subways and traversing the city, they used their cameras to become storytellers of their own.

– Claudia Sohrens, Teaching Artist

Visit to the exhibition Dawoud Bey: In This Here Place, Sean Kelly Gallery, Chelsea, 2021
Student Presentations at Artists Space, 2021
Students in front of Ana González work at Sean Kelly, 2025
Students at Irving Penn exhibition at Pace, 2025 Students
Students at the Schomberg Center, 2024
Wolfgang Tillmans exhibition at David Zwirner, 2024
dissolving city, digital photographs, 2024
dissolving city, digital photographs, 2024
Kayla, digital photograph, 2023
Jessica, the imagination of being in the rocks, digital photograph, 2023
Ethan, Transit Station, digital photograph, 2023
A window sill with cups, cans and cloth is visible and a crane can be seen outside of the window with the text: "New Holland" written on it. Circular green graffitti is visible on the facade of the building behind the crane.
Keeph, Artists Space construction site no.1, 2020, digital photograph [A window sill with cups, cans and cloth is visible and a crane can be seen outside of the window with the text: "New Holland" written on it. Circular green graffitti is visible on the facade of the building behind the crane.]
One figure is looking at the ground with their back facing the camera and another painted figure appears frontally looking down. They both are around a bright light emerging from below. A black wall covers the right half of the image.
Keeph, Artists Space construction site no. 2, 2020, digital photograph [One figure is looking at the ground with their back facing the camera and another painted figure appears frontally looking down. They both are around a bright light emerging from below. A black wall covers the right half of the image.]