This year's Photo Urbanism fellowship is themed around Water! We put out a call for photographers with a unique lens on how water — the risks and benefits of — shapes NYC.
We awarded the 2024-2025 Photo Urbanism Fellowship to Nathan Kensinger, a Brooklyn-based photographer, filmmaker, journalist, and artist whose work explores hidden urban landscapes, post-industrial ecologies, forgotten waterways, and coastal communities endangered by sea level rise and climate change.
Water has shaped New York City as it exists today. That role continues, as water influences the contours of a global, dynamic city. The enormous pressures being exerted on New York by too much or too little water, by unequal access to water or its poor quality, by insufficient understanding of water—impacts compounded in disadvantaged communities—require a new way to approach environmental planning. The 2024-2025 Photo Urbanism Fellowship seeks to document nuanced perspectives that can inform such a new planning approach.
The Photo Urbanism Fellowship is supported in part by the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs. Learn more at photourbanism.org