Photoville 2016 Celebrates Photography in Mobile Galleries at DUMBO Waterfront

DUMBO, BROOKLYN — Beginning this week you can step inside repurposed shipping containers at the DUMBO waterfront and be instantly transported to alternate worlds while viewing over 60 photo exhibitions.

The fifth annual Photoville celebrates photography from around the world, featuring an array of exhibits covering everything from NYC street photography by the much-celebrated Bill Cunningham, to stunning NASA lunar landscapes and dramatic images of the Ebola epidemic in Africa.

Photoville 2016 is free and open to the public and runs Wednesday, Sept. 21 to Sunday, Sept. 25, at the Brooklyn Bridge Plaza (corner of Water Street & New Dock Street).

The hours of the exhibits are as follows:

• Wednesday, Sept. 21, from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m.
• Thursday, Sept. 22, from 12 p.m. to 10 p.m.
• Friday, Sept. 23, from 12 p.m. to 10 p.m.
• Saturday, Sept. 24, from 12 p.m. to 10 p.m.
• Sunday, Sept, 25, from 12 p.m. to 9 p.m.

According to the Brooklyn Bridge Park site, the first four nights feature "multimedia presentations of the Photoville Nighttime Series, which showcase author readings and eclectic performances alongside documentary screenings."

Here's the Photoville Nighttime Series schedule:

• Wednesday, Sept. 21: Opening Night
With “Battle of the Boroughs,” Photoville sets off to highlight the diverse stories that make up this amazing and complicated multi-cultural city we live in. The evening will be a playful (but serious) show of photographic sportsmanship — inviting one curator from each borough to select five photographers and a single (seminal) body of work about a local story or community.

• Thursday, Sept. 22: PBS’ POV (Point of View)
Audience members will have the opportunity to see a selection of short films and an inside look at PBS’s POV documentary series, with excerpts from “Pink Boy” and “From This Day Forward.”

• Friday, Sept. 23: An Evening with The New York Times (via Photoville) : Join New York Times photo editors who will share highlights from our photographic coverage of some of the year’s biggest stories: the presidential election and the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.

There will be "a screening of a special tribute to the legendary Bill Cunningham."

• Saturday, Sept. 24: An Evening with National Geographic

With a focus on national parks, the evening’s main talk will be between photo editors Kathy Moran, David Guttenfelder, Charlie Hamilton James and Erika Larsen, and will center on their Yellowstone coverage. Before and after the talk, photos and videos from National Geographic’s other national parks coverage will be featured.

Lead image courtesy of Allison Meier/Flickr