Heritage in Focus at Photoville Festival 2025
From June 7-22, explore the exhibition Heritage in Focus at Photoville Festival 2025 in New York City.
date & time
Location
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
1 Water St
Brooklyn, NY 11201
This exhibition was produced in partnership with Photoville for their annual festival in New York City, 2025.
Heritage in Focus, a collaboration between World Monuments Fund and Magnum Foundation, has been made possible, in part, by support from Nora McNeely Hurley and Manitou Fund; Donna Perret Rosen; Lorna B. Goodman; The Donald A. Pels Charitable Trust; and Monika McLennan.
From June 7-22, explore the exhibition Heritage in Focus at Photoville Festival 2025 in New York City.
Every two years, communities around the world nominate historic places to the World Monuments Watch, which connects local heritage preservation efforts to global awareness and action. In 2022, WMF and Magnum Foundation launched a partnership to document eleven of these sites and their significance to local communities. Drawing on Magnum Foundation’s international network of socially engaged photographers, this creative collaboration explores the interconnectedness of people, place, and the transmission of shared histories.
The four projects featured in this exhibition represent a process of discovery and exploration deeply rooted in community. In Ghana, Eric Gyamfi explores the enduring cultural heritage of the Asante people and their shrines. Fransisca Angela portrays the resilience of the people of Wainyapu Village on Sumba Island, Indonesia, after a devastating fire’s destruction. Victor Zea and Diego López Calvín use long-exposure cameras embedded in the land to capture the landscape and structures that have enabled the residents of the Yanacancha-Huaquis Cultural Landscape, Peru, to control the water supply since pre-Inca times. And Yael Martínez describes his collaged photographs of the ancient Mexican city of Teotihuacan as “an analogy of the layers of time, stones, dust, and structures that have built our present and our identity.”
Together, these projects offer distinct and unexpected ways of understanding the profound resonance of cultural memory in the present.
This outdoor, public exhibition is free of charge and open to all.
Heritage in Focus at Photoville Festival 2025
From June 7-22, explore the exhibition Heritage in Focus at Photoville Festival 2025 in New York City.
date & time
Location
Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
1 Water St
Brooklyn, NY 11201
This exhibition was produced in partnership with Photoville for their annual festival in New York City, 2025.
Heritage in Focus, a collaboration between World Monuments Fund and Magnum Foundation, has been made possible, in part, by support from Nora McNeely Hurley and Manitou Fund; Donna Perret Rosen; Lorna B. Goodman; The Donald A. Pels Charitable Trust; and Monika McLennan.
From June 7-22, explore the exhibition Heritage in Focus at Photoville Festival 2025 in New York City.
Every two years, communities around the world nominate historic places to the World Monuments Watch, which connects local heritage preservation efforts to global awareness and action. In 2022, WMF and Magnum Foundation launched a partnership to document eleven of these sites and their significance to local communities. Drawing on Magnum Foundation’s international network of socially engaged photographers, this creative collaboration explores the interconnectedness of people, place, and the transmission of shared histories.
The four projects featured in this exhibition represent a process of discovery and exploration deeply rooted in community. In Ghana, Eric Gyamfi explores the enduring cultural heritage of the Asante people and their shrines. Fransisca Angela portrays the resilience of the people of Wainyapu Village on Sumba Island, Indonesia, after a devastating fire’s destruction. Victor Zea and Diego López Calvín use long-exposure cameras embedded in the land to capture the landscape and structures that have enabled the residents of the Yanacancha-Huaquis Cultural Landscape, Peru, to control the water supply since pre-Inca times. And Yael Martínez describes his collaged photographs of the ancient Mexican city of Teotihuacan as “an analogy of the layers of time, stones, dust, and structures that have built our present and our identity.”
Together, these projects offer distinct and unexpected ways of understanding the profound resonance of cultural memory in the present.
This outdoor, public exhibition is free of charge and open to all.
About the Curators and Photographers
Kristen Lubben
Executive Director, Magnum FoundationCurator
Tif Ng
Programs Coordinator, Magnum FoundationCurator
Fransisca Angela
Fransisca Angela is an Indonesian multidisciplinary artist. Her approach involves communities to create personal narratives around place, memory, and social issues.
Eric Gyamfi
Eric Gyamfi is a photographer living and working in Ghana. His work often experiments with the hybrid nature of analog, digital, and chemical photographic processes.
Víctor Zea Díaz
Víctor Zea Díaz is a Cusco-based documentary photographer. His work has been published in National Geographic and The Atlantic, by the BBC, and elsewhere.
Diego López Calvín
Diego López Calvín is a freelance photographer based in Madrid. He is one of the inventors of solarigraphy, which uses pinhole cameras and long exposures to track the movement of the sun.
Yael Martinez
Yael Martinez is a photographer whose work addresses fractured communities in his native Mexico. His photographs have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, TIME, The New York Times Lens Blog, and elsewhere. He is a member of Magnum Photos.