Join us in NYC January 28, 2026
SANCTUARY
January 28 — March 7, 2026
SANCTUARY features 16 artists examining displacement and the search for sanctuary. The PhotoBridge Project exhibition shares photography revealing the challenges facing communities in Haiti, India, Sudan, the USA, Kenya, and Sri Lanka and how local organizations support them in crisis.
Attend the exhibition launch and join us for happy hour in partnership with Opportunity Collaboration. This intimate event invites guests to engage with each other and the stories behind the images.
Opening Reception
January 28, 2026
6:00 - 8:00 pm
Happy Hour
January 28, 2026
RSVP for details and location
4:00 - 5:45 pm
The Exhibition
Through powerful imagery The PhotoBridge Project brings to life the human stories behind displacement through striking, context-rich photography developed in collaboration with local communities around the world. The exhibit highlights communities, capturing experiences of trauma, resilience, and healing, and creating a space where shared experiences can spark empathy and reflection.
From displaced communities near Khartoum in Sudan, to fishing villages in Haiti confronting ecological collapse, widows in India facing systemic injustice, teenage survivors in Sri Lanka building futures with support from Emerge Lanka, and migrant families navigating the asylum system in the United States, the images reveal both hardship and the courage, agency, and creativity that sustain these communities.
Exhibition Themes
By centering the work of local organizations and the voices of those directly impacted, The PhotoBridge Project offers an intimate, immersive encounter that invites visitors to witness, understand, and connect with the realities of displacement.
Climate Crisis
Haiti: FoProBim fishing communities and mangrove restoration amid ecological collapse.
Olivier Jobard (Emmy Award winner), September 2025
Systemic Violence
India: Jagar Pratishthan widows of farmers confronting debt, illness, and injustice.
Chloé Sharrock, September 2025
Protection of Vulnerable Populations
Sri Lanka: Emerge Lanka teenage survivors of child sexual abuse building futures through trauma-informed support.
Guillaume Binet, January 2026
Asylum and Persecution
USA: Holy Trinity Migrant Support La Familia: families navigating the asylum system and those who accompany them.
Agnès Dherbeys, August 2025
Displacement and Conflict
Sudan: Displaced persons camps near Khartoum, mutual aid societies and communities surviving amid ongoing conflict.
Olivier Jobard, December 2025
Guillaume Binet, various dates
Marginalized Youth
Kenya: Inuka Cultural Center youth using dance and music to create futures and defy stereotypes.
Guillaume Binet, July 2025
The PhotoBridge Project aims to address the chronic lack of support for locally rooted, on-the-ground actors by transforming their visibility and the way their work is seen and valued.
It works through a partnership-based model, where award-winning photojournalists work in close collaboration with local organizations to create dignity-centered visual stories. Local organizations and communities are actively involved in image selection and caption writing, ensuring trust, accountability, and ethical use. Storytelling is treated as long-term infrastructure rather than a one-off fundraising tool, creating lasting visual assets that organizations control and can deploy across fundraising, communications, investment, and public engagement for years to come.
The PhotoBridge Project delivers impact across three interconnected channels, philanthropic, policy, and cultural, unlocking traditional funding for grassroots organizations, providing credible visual evidence for advocacy and policy influence, and positioning work in galleries, museums, and conferences where dominant narratives can be challenged and power reshaped.
About The PhotoBridge Project
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Guillaume Binet