We the People brings together more than three decades of work by photographer Nina Berman who has tenaciously documented the public outrages, injustices, protestations and longings of a deeply dissatisfied and increasingly polarized society. What the United States should be, and for whom, are questions at the heart of Nina’s work and the 2024 election.

September 8th - November 24th, 2024

As part of our programming for our exhibition "We The People, Photographs by Nina Berman", we invite members of the community to contribute to a participatory project by sharing your photographs of what democracy looks like to you: a picture of a protest, a placard, a town hall, a voting booth, etc. The Capa Space will curate the submitted photographs and create a slideshow to be presented at our exhibition space. The public will be invited to view the slideshow and stay for conversation. So, search your phone, your contact sheets, box of photos. Or, take out your camera and capture something new. Use the QR code below to send us your submissions before October 4th. We can’t wait to see what you’ve got!

Click here to send us your photographs

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Saturday, July 20th, 2024

Join us at The Capa Space for a screening of BEYOND BARS, a documentary produced and made available by Brave New Films. During an election year with over two million Americans currently incarcerated, BEYOND BARS exposes the continuing impact of white supremacy all through the powerful story of former San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin and his family.

May 4th - July 21st, 2024

After 18 years as a public defender, SARA BENNETT turned her attention to photographing women with life sentences, both inside and outside prison. Bennett’s unsentimental photographic portraits are potent reminders that although convicted of serious crimes these women are no less human than we are. Bennett challenges the assumption that these women are unredeemed or unforgivable. Her photographs, which include handwritten text by the women themselves, suggest that people are more than their worst act.

Sunday June 2nd, 2024

Screening of the film A THOUSAND AND ONE. After unapologetic and fiercely loyal Inez kidnaps her son Terry from the foster care system, mother and son set out to reclaim their sense of home, identity and stability, in a rapidly changing New York City. Winner of the 2023 Sundance Grand Jury Prize

Sunday, May 19th, 2024

Chris Verene, Associate Prof of Photography at CUNY introduced students to serious photography subject matter using the cellpone as the entry level tool. Students learn how to create a project from their own life experience. A slideshow of students work will be curated by Chris and viewed at The Capa Space in the future.

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December 9 - April 7, 2024

John Shearer was an acclaimed photojournalist who captured iconic images of major historical events in the 1960s-1970s. Shearer leveraged his unique perspective as a Black photojournalist to document these turbulent decades. The Capa Space featured over 30 of Shearers powerful images.

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Sunday, March 24th, 2024

Muhammad Ali starts as himself in this dramatized version of his life story up to the late 1970’s. It includes his Olympic triumphs as Cassius Clay, his conversion to Islam, his refusal of the army draft and his legal battle after being stripped of his World Title.

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Saturday, Feb 24th, 2024 - SOLD OUT

A live jazz tribute to John Shearer, performed by his daughter, saxophonist Alison Shearer, surrounded by photographs taken during his illustrious career.

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April 8th thru October 8th, 2023

An exhibition of over 50 photographs taken by famed war photographer Robert Capa. Over the course of twenty years, his camera and adventurous spirit brought home the grim realities of five different wars. In between his wartime exploits, Capa's frankness and likability forged friendships across the spectrum of war, art, literature, and celebrity.

Click here to read an article in Musee Magazine about the exhibit

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October 15th, 2023

As part of our programming for the ‘THIS IS ROBERT CAPA!’ exhibition, we invited those who served in the military to contribute to a participatory project by sharing photographs taken during the time they served. Click here to view the video, When They Served

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AUGUST 6th, 2023

Robert Capa, LIFE Magazine, and Visual Culture after WWII

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A dramatic performance which tells the true story of George and Ruth Watt, newlyweds separated by war. The story is told in their words, adapted from letters they wrote to each other while George served as a volunteer in the Lincoln Battalion. The performance, directed by Katie Schmidt Feder, includes a singer/guitarist with songs of the Spanish Civil War.

This project was made possible with funds from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by Arts Westchester.

Click here to view George & Ruth video

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December 10th 2022 thru February 25th 2023

The Capa Space, 2467 Quaker Church Road, Yorktown, NY

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Friday, June 10th 2022

Filmmaker and Yorktown resident Melissa Haizlip will introduce the film.

“From 1968 to 1973, the public television variety show SOUL!, guided by the enigmatic producer and host Ellis Haizlip, offered an unfiltered, uncompromising celebration of Black literature, poetry, music, and politics—voices that had few other options for national exposure, and, as a result, found the program an improbable place to call home.

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JANUARY 7th thru JANUARY 29th, 2022

At Bethany Arts Community, 40 Somerstown Rd, Ossining, NY 10562

At Ossining Library February 1 - February 28

PHOTOGRAPHS INSPIRED BY THE VOTING RIGHTS MOVEMENT

“This Far and No Further” is an exhibition of powerful photographs by William Abranowicz that records his journey through the American South. The photographs are contemporary images of the ordinary places that shaped the civil rights movement. Through symbolism and metaphor image and text, Abranowicz uncovers stunning stories of brutality, sacrifice and redemption.

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