The best museum exhibitions in NYC right now<\/a><\/p>\nOnce a fashion and music photographer,\u00a0Duley shifted his focus to conflict zones, embedding himself in communities affected by war. In 2011, he\u00a0stepped on a landmine\u00a0in Afghanistan, losing both legs and an arm. That experience reshaped not only his life but his work, deepening his commitment to telling stories of survival, resilience and recovery.<\/p>\n
Held\u00a0high above the East River in one of Manhattan\u2019s newest luxury residential buildings, the\u00a0show reframes more than two decades of Duley\u2019s work\u00a0in a 4,600-square-foot penthouse where the setting becomes part of the contrast.\u00a0The exhibition\u2019s title reflects that evolution. Rather than presenting war as a series of isolated events, Distortion\/Memory\/Resilience\/ draws connections across geography and time, emphasizing what Duley sees as a shared human thread running through conflict. The images focus less on destruction and more on the people navigating its aftermath.<\/p>\n
Presented by JVP Development and Gamma Real Estate, the show is structured as a nontraditional retrospective, described as a \u201creimagining\u201d that offers a new perspective on 20 years of Duley’s work. In addition to his photographs, the exhibition will also include a recreated child\u2019s room from a conflict zone and a\u00a0camera obscura that projects the NYC skyline upside down into a domestic space<\/p>\n
Alongside his photography, Duley is also the founder of the Legacy of War Foundation, which supports communities rebuilding after conflict. His humanitarian work has brought him into collaboration with figures like Angelina Jolie and artists including Banksy, though this exhibition puts his own creative voice\u00a0front and\u00a0center.<\/p>\n
Viewings will be by appointment only.\u00a0On top of the\u00a0show, Duley\u00a0will host\u00a0private salon dinners on May 19 and May 21, where food becomes a storytelling\u00a0device\u00a0inspired by travels in Ukraine, Rwanda and Persia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new exhibition\u00a0on the Upper East Side\u00a0brings British photographer Giles Duley’s work to a most incongruous location this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":637011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[11480,449,458,459,64,63,11481,460,134,11482],"class_list":["post-637010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-art","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-categories-art","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-news-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/637011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}