Name: Opening Reception: Everyday Bronx
Start: 2023-03-31T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2023-03-31T21:00:00-04:00
Location: Bronx Documentary Center

Opening Reception: Everyday Bronx

Bronx Documentary Center

Rewriting the narrative of the Bronx, one photo at a time.

On View: March 31 - May 14, 2023<a href="https://www.instagram.com/everydaybronx/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Everyday Bronx</a> is a Bronx-themed Instagram account with more than 43,000 followers. It’s part of <a href="https://www.everydayprojects.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Everyday Projects</a>, a global initiative to amplify local voices and champion a collective, grassroots form of storytelling. Founded in 2014, Everyday Bronx exclusively features photographs from its followers, and rewrites the narrative of the Bronx, one photo at a time, telling the complex stories from often-overlooked daily lives in the borough. The BDC curated the exhibition in collaboration with Rhynna M. Santos, a Puerto Rico-born documentary photographer living and working in the Bronx, who leads a five-member volunteer team that posts images every day of the year on Everyday Bronx. The exhibition will feature more than 50 photographs and video displays, mostly done on cellphones, from what has become an important online archive of Bronx life. By encouraging followers to photograph their neighborhoods, Everyday Bronx fosters artistic expression from a range of individuals, not just trained photographers, and creates a unique online archive of documentary images of the Bronx. The photos and videos portray the real Bronx, dispelling misconceptions about the borough. The exhibit’s opening night will feature music by DJ KayKay47, breakdancing by Bboy Pollo and Mantis, and graffiti by KayLove BX—celebrating the history of the Bronx as the birthplace of hip-hop and its role as an epicenter of creative art, music, and dance. Free and open to all!Rhynna M. Santos is a Puerto Rico-born documentary photographer and teaching artist living and working in the Bronx. Ms. Santos’ art captures the beautiful, painful, funny, and endlessly complex lives and perspectives of people of color in her community. She is the founder of the Bronx Women’s Photo Collective and curator for the Instagram feed Everyday Bronx. Her work has been published in The New York Times and featured in Photoville and PhotoEspaña festivals among others.*D﻿on&#x27;t miss our upcoming Everyday Bronx Panel Talk on Tuesday, April 4, at 6PM. <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/panel-talk-everydaybronx-tickets-599679667027" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Learn more here.</a><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/panel-talk-everydaybronx-tickets-599679667027" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"></a>Header images (Top-Bottom, L-R): © Jon Santiago; © Tariq Touré; © Heriberto Sanchez; © Rhynna M. Santos; © E. Gordon BerroaB﻿ottom images (Top-Bottom): © @mybronxtale; © Rhynna M. Santos; © Michael Young

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