A photo of people looking at Jamel Shabazz work at the Museum of the City of New York

New photo exhibit celebrates 'the way New Yorkers live'

WNYC News | Mar 15, 2023

Unknown artists are featured alongside living legends like Jamel Shabazz and Richard Renaldi at “New York Now: Home,” a new exhibit at the Museum of the City of New York.

The exhibit, which has been in the works for over two years, is the first installment of a planned triennial celebrating local photography, and the first exhibit to kick off the museum’s centennial anniversary celebrations this year. It features collections of photos exploring the many facets of what “home” can mean to New Yorkers.

To choose the works for the exhibit, co-curators Thea Quiray Tagle and Sean Corcoran worked with a panel of experts, received nominations from local photography organizations, and had an open call for submissions. They whittled down over 1,000 submissions to select 33 artists whose work was made in the last decade and reflects a concept of home.

“The idea is to explore the ways New Yorkers live, obviously within the four walls they might call home, but we also wanted to be a bit more expansive and consider our extended homes, like public spaces,” said Corcoran, who is MCNY's senior curator of prints and photographs. “We wanted to talk about the unhoused, and we also wanted to explore the idea of chosen families and chosen homes.”

Read more and see more images on Gothamist.

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