{"id":151547,"date":"2026-03-03T21:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T21:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/151547\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T21:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T21:00:30","slug":"iconic-journalistic-photos-from-around-the-world-on-display-at-bronx-documentary-center-bronx-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/151547\/","title":{"rendered":"Iconic journalistic photos from around the world on display at Bronx Documentary Center \u2013 Bronx Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new photo exhibition at the Bronx Documentary Center (BDC)<\/a> showcases history-making moments of 2025 from around the world, captured by renowned photojournalists.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Winning works from the 2025 World Press Photo Contest are on display now through March 15 at the BDC Annex at 364 East 151st Street, marking the show\u2019s first appearance in New York City in more than a decade.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 42 winners represent six world regions \u2014 Africa, Asia-Pacific and Oceania, Europe, North and Central America, and West, Central and South Asia. Most of the photojournalists are local to the areas they cover, showcasing a diverse range of subjects, styles and moments, whether intimate or huge in scope, tragic or ordinary and everything in between.<\/p>\n

BDC Creative Director Michael Kamber worked with World Press Photo to create the exhibition and was a winner himself in 2008.\n<\/p>\n

Kamber worked as a photojournalist for 25 years, mostly in the Middle East, the Caribbean and Africa, and founded the Bronx Documentary Center in 2011 as an educational space to introduce young people to the power of photography.\u00a0<\/p>\n

It was also established in memory of a close friend and fellow photojournalist who was killed covering the war in Libya in 2011, Kamber told the Bronx Times.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The center serves mostly students from the South Bronx and East Harlem and engages them in\u00a0discussions about community issues, where they are getting information, and the journalistic principles of fact-checking, interviewing, researching and sourcing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Kamber said the BDC teaches young people how to ethically document the community while telling important stories based on their own experiences. For instance, students have worked on projects highlighting Bronxites\u2019 immigration stories, new housing development and the prevalence of neighborhood marijuana shops.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Some young people from BDC programs have gone into careers in journalism and photojournalism, Kamber said.\u00a0\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

The next generation of documentarians and photographers need not look far for inspiration as they build their portfolios. The World Press Photo exhibition at BDC has seen an \u201cenormous turnout\u201d so far, including several high school and college groups, Kamber said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Many Bronxites come from, or have connections to, the various countries represented in the winning collection, he said.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\u201cWorld Press Photo kind of represents our community in a way,\u201d Kamber said. \u201cReally, it\u2019s about, this is what happened in our world in the last 12 months, and it\u2019s a chance to really spend time with it and consider it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"At the Bronx Documentary Center, young people are taught how to ethically photograph their communities and can also learn technical skills, including washing and developing rolls of film. Photo by Emily Swanson
\nA window into Taliban-led Afghanistan\u00a0<\/p>\n

The exhibition includes five works by Kiana Hayeri<\/a>, an Iranian-Canadian photographer who traveled throughout Taliban-led Afghanistan to capture images of everyday life for women and girls.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In addition to winning World Press Photo honors, Hayeri also turned her 2024 photos into a book, \u201cNo Woman\u2019s Land,\u201d in collaboration with French human rights attorney and researcher M\u00e9lissa Cornet.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hayeri lived in Kabul 2014 to 2023 and saw firsthand how women were restricted from the full scope of society under the Taliban, she told the Bronx Times.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

Because women were \u201creally pushed out of public spaces\u201d like schools, libraries and parks, each photo required a \u201cvery strategic\u201d plan and the ability to overcome a lot of hesitancy to participate, she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe would knock on 20 doors and get 19 no to get one yes,\u201d Hayeri said. \u201cIt\u2019s completely understandable, to be honest. These women were extremely brave to even meet with us to start with but also put themselves in front of my camera.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even though the women\u2019s faces were covered, they were taking some degree of risk in allowing themselves to be photographed. For instance, Hayeri said she photographed a Taliban prosecutor who likely risked imprisonment.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hayeri\u2019s images currently on the wall at BDC depict girls attending an underground school, friends at a sixteenth birthday party, a woman who abandoned her educational plans under Taliban law, and a first-time mother in the maternity ward who became saddened to learn she just had a baby girl, according to Hayeri.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Another stunning photo shows a window display of several mannequins wearing glittery, full-skirted gowns and plastic bags over their heads \u2014 illustrating that even faces of fake women are not allowed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

While Hayeri\u2019s career has been prolific, she said among the many perks of being a World Press Photo winner is receiving questions and engagement from young people inspired by her images.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cFor me, that has been really the biggest value, where we have been penetrating into education systems where otherwise we would not have had the chance to,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

See Hayeri\u2019s work and the rest of the free exhibition at the BDC during gallery hours: Thursday\/Friday 3-7 p.m. and Saturday\/Sunday 1-5 p.m.\n<\/p>\n

Reach Emily Swanson at\u00a0eswanson@schnepsmedia.com<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0(646) 717-0015<\/a>. For more coverage, subscribe to our\u00a0newsletter<\/a>\u00a0and follow us on\u00a0Twitter<\/a>,\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Instagram<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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