Visions Made Visible

Soho Photo Gallery Community Programs

We believe photography empowers people and communities to see the world more vividly and make their personal visions seen. To share photography with the diverse communities, we create and host special exhibitions, internship programs, speakers, and other special events. We also offer opportunities for subsidized membership. This page highlights some of our work.

Exhibitions

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Jessica Johnson

©Gus Bennett 2019

JOY!
Art Justice Cohort
Oct 12 -Nov 6, 2022
Curated by Ellen Jacob
Joy disrupts the one-dimensional narrative of marginalized people enduring lives of constant struggle. Joy creates a visual celebration of joyfulness.

Suspicious Black Men, Derik Dollis by Bennett

Suspicious Black Men: Derik Dollis

©Gus Bennett 2019

Protest. Resilience. Identity.
Art Justice Cohort, a group of diverse artists
Curated by Ellen Jacob
This show by the Art Justice Cohort celebrates that underlying resilience and the joyful vision of a world where all identities are safe and celebrated.
Exhibition Dates: August 13 – September 5, 2021

They're Burning - World Trade Center on 911

They're Burning

© Lee Day 2001

Witness
Wolfgang Staehle, Hans Weiss, Lee Day
Curated by Lee Day
Exhibition Dates: September 9 – 12, 2021

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911: Our First Responder Heroes
Images by FDNY & NYPD.
Curated and Printed by Linda Sandow.
Exhibition Dates: September 9 – 12, 2021

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© Peter Turnley 2019

immigrants
Group show curated by Ellen Jacob and Pierre-Yves Linot.
Immigrants focused on the people who cross the world’s borders, driven by need to leave behind a life they know in exchange for one they do not.
Exhibition Dates: Sept. 30 – Oct. 19, 2019

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© Robert Kalman 2019

Photography After Stonewall
Curated by Bill Tice
A special exhibition to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots and the start of the gay liberation movement.
Exhibition Dates: June 5-29, 2019

Programs

Internship

Internships
Our program offers a unique opportunity to become involved in a variety of gallery operations and engage with artists spanning a wide-range of photographic practices.

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Metamorphosis
© Alycia Kravitz 2020

Emerging Photographers
SPG provides a platform for underrepresented photographers who are at the beginning of their photographic journeys.

Speakers

Michal Chelbin, Photographer

Michal Chelbin

Michal Chelbin
Photographing Ukrainian Refugees
April 26, 2022

Sheila Pree Bright

Self Portrait

©Sheila Pree Bright

Sheila Pree Bright
UnMasked: Imagining the Future
March 10, 2021

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©Kris Graves 2016

Kris Graves
In Conversation on the Landscape of America
February 17, 2021

Dance, photo by Gus Bennet

Flo Fox

©Gigi Stoll 1990

Flo Fox
Ironic Reality
August 26, 2020

Gus Bennett

Self Portrait

©Gus Bennett 2019

Gus Bennett 
Narrates Photography as Community & Collaboration
August 5, 2020