‘The Fence’ returns to Brooklyn Bridge Park, featuring photographers from around the world
Wondering what all those huge photos are along the fences at Brooklyn Bridge Park? The Fence is an annual, summer-long photo installation by United Photo Industries that showcases 40 photographers from around the world as they explore important themes through a series of six images intended to tell a story.
This is the fourth year The Fence’s 1,250-foot white banners run along the construction fences of Brooklyn Bridge Park, sectioned into the categories nature, streets, play, people, home and creatures. Some of the featured photographers were present on Thursday, giving talks about their work and how the concept for their image series fit into the category at large. They were proud, and perhaps rightly so: the photographers were chosen by a jury comprised of 47 experts from around the world, from Aidan Sullivan, the vice president of Reportage by Getty Images, to Director of the Tokyo Institute of Photography Ihiro Hayami.