April 5th - July 20th, 2025

Join us at The Capa Space to view ‘Witness: Gerda Taro’s Spanish Civil War’ as it explores Taro's distinct photographic style and her unfailing empathy for her subjects. Taro’s unflinching documentation of the Spanish Civil War established her as one of the first female war photographers and a passionate visual advocate for anti-fascist resistance. Despite her tragically short career—she was killed on the frontlines in Spain in 1937 at just 26 years old—Taro's impact was profound. Her funeral in Paris drew thousands, a testament to the role she played in the Spanish Civil War.

Opening Reception: Saturday April 5th at 5pm

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Dec 7th - March 23rd, 2025

‘Faces of Exodus’ , a captivating photographic exhibition by renowned Getty Images photojournalist John Moore. The retrospective showcased 15 years of Moore's powerful documentation of migration along the US-Mexico border, as well as premiere his latest work capturing Ecuador's internal armed conflict and its impact on migration.

The opening reception held on December 7th offered visitors a chance to meet John Moore and view his photographs of migration, conflict, and the search for home.

Sunday, March 23rd 2025

Join or Die is a film about why you should join a club—and why the fate of America depends on it. Follow the story of America's civic unraveling through the journey of

Robert Putnam, whose legendary "Bowling Alone" research into American community decline may hold the answers to our democracy's present crisis.

Sunday, January 26th 2025 at 3pm

"The curious thing about the film The Visitor is that even as it goes more or less where you think it will, it still manages to surprise you along the way." A.O. Scott, NYTimes

September 8th - November 24th, 2024

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.

Saturday, November 2nd, 2024

The Capa Space was thrilled to present a concert featuring the Walkabout Clearwater Chorus . The hugely successful performance took place amid the powerful photographs of We The People by Nina Berman. Walkabout Clearwater is first and foremost activist in the tradition of its founder Pete Seeger.

Sunday, October 27th, 2024

Private screening of a captivating slideshow featured community-contributed photographs set to music.  A visual and musical journey through our collective vision of democracy proved both moving & thought-provoking.

CLICK HERE TO VIEW SLIDESHOW

Sunday, September 29th, 2024

Private screening of the film "Whose Streets" as told by the activists and leaders who live and breathe this movement for justice, an unflinching look at the Ferguson uprising. When unarmed teenager Michael Brown is killed by police and left lying in the street for hours, it marks a breaking point for the residents of St. Louis, Missouri. This film was shown as part of The Capa Space' Reel Stories programming.

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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