Exhibition

MPS Digital Photography presents the exhibition, “Long Distance,” at New York City’s 2025 Photoville Festival, located at Brooklyn Bridge Park.

“Long Distance” features three projects by three MPS Digital Photography community members—a current student, an alumnus, and a faculty member. All three projects are, in different ways, about travel, distance, and connection.

In his project, created for the Editorial Photography class, student Hengyi (Harry) Yang explores the long-distance relationship with his girlfriend back home in China through a series of still-life photographs and short texts. In Vellostha (“I will go and come back,” in Telugu), Shravya Kag (MPS 2016 Digital Photography) connects her current queer, gender non-conforming self to a nostalgic, traditionally gendered self on trips between her native India and her home in Brooklyn. Sound, Motion, and Video instructor Samantha Isom’s Brown Passport is an ongoing project documenting her extensive travels as a person of color. She observes that she does not often see Black/Brown (Western, especially American) faces backpacking, hiking, camping, diving, or trekking around the globe and treasures those encounters. She also explores how her identity can be in itself a gateway to different, more insightful lines of dialogue with the people she meets.

“Long Distance” is curated by Marko Kovacevic, the Director of Operations at the MPS Digital Photography department. SVA at Photoville is sponsored by Calibrite.