The Fence, a 1000-foot-long photo exhibition that runs from Pier 1 to Pier 3 along the Brooklyn waterfront, is now being installed. Selected from a juried competition, it includes work by Alejandra Carles-Tolra, Alejandro Chaskielberg, Anne Berry, Anne-Sophie Stolz, Barry Rosenthal, Bojune Kwon, Brenda Islas, Dirk Anschütz, Elizabeth Herman, Elliot Ross, Emily Schiffer, Erik Klein Wolterink, Gesche Würfel, Gregg Segal, Ilona Szwarc, Jeffrey Stockbridge, Jens Sundheim, Jonathan Auch, Julia Curtin, Kerry Mansfield, Landon Nordeman, MASTODON (Massimo Mastrorillo / Donald Weber), Melissa Cacciola, Michelle Pedone, Nick Ballon, Nicolo Sertorio, Peter Andrew Lusztyk, Robert Rutoed, Rudolf Strobl, Sarah Baley, Simon Willms,Stefania Mattu, Teri Havens, Timothy Fadek, Tina Schula, Tom Atwood, Winnie Au.

Photoville starts tomorrow and runs on weekends through July 1^st at Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 3 Uplands. Photoville will feature exhibitions, artist talks, hands-on workshops, nighttime projections, a beer garden complete with food trucks and a dog run! The two-weekend fair is produced by DUMBO’s Photo collective United Photo Industries and will be FREE and open to the public. Directions.

The New York Times’ Lensblog recently wrote,
If your dog, the absence of beer and food trucks, or the indoor nature of conventional gallery viewing have been obstacles to your attendance at photography exhibitions, you will have to come up with new excuses this summer.

For two long weekends, beginning June 22, United Photo Industries (UPI), in partnership with Brooklyn Bridge Park and Photo District News, and a host of others, will open Photoville, an outdoor presentation of photography, in many forms, in Brooklyn Bridge Park, Brooklyn.

“It’s kind of like a country fair, only for photography,” said Sam Barzilay, 33, the creative director of United Photo Industries. [read the article]

Among the featured exhibitors are: Magnum Foundation, Open Society Institute, Photo District News, The New York Times, Bruce Gilden, Brenda Ann Kenneally, Stephen Dupont,Noorderlicht Photography, Amy Elkins, Sigrid Viir, the Tierney Fellowship, Lomography, Laura Brunow Miner’s Phoot Camp, Feature Shoot, and Andre Feliciano. 

Photoville also includes public talks, hands-on workshops, and nighttime projections. Participants include International Center of Photography, Ed Kashi, Leica Camera, Camera Club of New York, Michael Shaw, Daylight magazine, Center for Alternative Photography, David Graham, Pete Brook, Lorie Novak, and Glenn Ruga among others.

Evening programming highlights the best of documentary photography and features talks on leading issues in the field. Participants include Photo District News (PDN) who is hosting an opening night party for The Curator; MediaStorm founder and executive producer Brian Storm will discuss how the digital age gives filmmakers, documentary photographers and photojournalists extraordinary and unprecedented new ways to tell stories; Adriana Teresa Letorney will showcase a selection of work by emerging women photographers from theFotoVisura community, and United Photo Industries will present juror highlights from The Fence, UPI’s summer-long outdoor photo exhibition exploring the multi-faceted theme of ‘community.’

Photoville is partnering with the NYC Food Truck Association and Brooklyn Brewery on a food & beer garden where five food vendors will rotate daily and will include: Crisp on Wheels,Coolhaus, Cruisin' Kitchen, Cupcake Crew, Eddie's Pizza, Frites n Meats, Gorilla Cheese, Kelvin Natural Slush Co, Kimchi Taco, Milk Truck, Mike n Willie's, Morris Grilled Cheese NYC, Mudtruck, Munchie Mobile, Nuchas, Palenque, Phil's Steaks, Red Hook Lobster Pound, Rickshaw Truck, Schnitzel n Things, Snap, and Valducci's.