we are queensbridge
The Queensbridge Photo Collective
A Project of
Five Corners
Collective, Inc.
PUBLICATIONS
Artist Books
Spring 2023
In Spring 2023, the Queensbridge Photo Collective began an internship at the Center for Book Arts during which they are learning how to make artist books featuring their photography. The internship will continue throughout 2023 and in 2024, the books will be exhibited at the Culture Lab in Long Island City. Stay tuned for more information.
We Are Queensbridge "Zine"
Spring 2020
In Spring 2020, the Queensbridge Houses were at the epicenter of the COVID pandemic, encircled by those New York City neighborhoods with the highest rates of infection and death in the nation. The Jacob Riis Settlement House, located in the heart of the Queensbridge Houses, transformed from a community center into a COVID testing and food distribution center. With tourism virtually non-existent, nearby hotels opened their doors to homeless families and adults.
In May 2020, the pain and despair of the pandemic was compounded by the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department. Protestors met to express their anger in neighboring Queensbridge Park. Make-shift memorials sprang up on street corners and in parks.
The Queensbridge Photo Collective set about to document this unique moment in history. In August 2020, they published a "zine" with photographs they had taken, found photographs, poems, prayers and inspirational sayings that had helped them through these dark times. The zine is now in the permanent collection of the New York Historical Society and in December 2020 was featured on the blog of the newspaperclub.com under 27 Front Pages of 2020.
