Coming Soon: Gray Zones

Gray Zones: Unmaking the Myth of a Polarized Nation The Puffin Cultural Forum | 20 Puffin Way, Teaneck, NJ 🗓 Opening Reception: Saturday, October 3, 1PM – 4PM 🎤 Panel Discussion: 2PM (featuring exhibition photographers & curator Danny Wilcox Frazier) Featured here, photographs by Ron Haviv (@Ronhaviv_VII) from Glimpses of America 1.) Protestors clash with DHS/ICE police at an ICE facility after a No Kings rally in Portland, Oregon against policies of the U.S. government on March 28, 2026. 2.) An Illinois state police officer stands outside the Broadview ICE and detention center, October 2025. Ron Haviv is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker and an award-winning photojournalist. He co-founded VII Photo Agency and The VII Foundation, where he currently serves as a director. He is dedicated to documenting conflict, post conflict and raising human rights issues around the globe. His work in the Balkans was used as evidence to indict & convict war criminals at the international tribunal in The Hague. President H.W. Bush cited Haviv’s photographs documenting paramilitary violence in Panama as one of the reasons for the 1989 American intervention. His photography is in museum collections around the world and he has published five monographs. Haviv is the subject of numerous documentaries, including National Geographic Explorer’s Freelance in a World of Risk. He has written opinion pieces for the Washington Post and The New York Times and spoken at TEDx along with numerous other media outlets and lectures at Universities and conferences. Ron Haviv will be joining the panel conversation during our opening— don’t miss this opportunity to meet him and several of the other extraordinary photographers in this exhibition. – #njphoto #njarts #photoexhibition #nycartists #photojournalism

Gray Zones: Unmaking the Myth of a Polarized Nation The Puffin Cultural Forum | 20 Puffin Way, Teaneck, NJ 🗓 Opening Reception: Saturday, October 3, 1PM – 4PM 🎤 Panel Discussion: 2PM (featuring exhibition photographers & curator Danny Wilcox Frazier) Featured here: Photographs by Dr. Zun Lee (zunleephoto) from Father Figure. 1.) Alfredo Gonzalez and son Jahlil. Bronx, NY, 2011 2.) Christmas Eve with the Millers. Bronx, NY, 2012 Dr. Zun Lee is an award-winning visual storyteller, physician, and educator who investigates everyday life in Black domestic spaces. Born and raised in Germany, the 2020 Guggenheim Fellow trained as a neuroscientist and worked in management consulting for nearly two decades before building his creative practice. Entirely self-taught, Lee began his visual arts endeavors in street photography. He is best known for immersive ethnographic projects of Black family life that require many months or even years of community immersion. He seamlessly transitioned into a career as an internationally acclaimed artist and cultural entrepreneur, working with community and academic institutions to leverage creativity and storytelling for increased social impact. Lee’s multidisciplinary practice has since expanded to include archival and orphan works, placekeeping, social practice, and creative writing. Through an intersectional lens, he examines how digital technologies affect representation, foregrounding visual literacy, structural competency, and ethics within crowdsourced environments. Lee has exhibited, spoken, and taught internationally. His works are featured in prominent public and private collections worldwide. Dr. Lee will be joining the panel conversation at our opening— don’t miss this opportunity to meet him and several of the other extraordinary photographers in this exhibition! – #njart #nycart #photographyexhibition #njphotographer #journalismphotography

Gray Zones: Unmaking the Myth of a Polarized Nation is heading to Teaneck, NJ!! If you missed the show in Brooklyn, or want to experience it again, then join us in Teaneck for the opening reception and photographers' panel. Opening Details: 📆 Saturday, October 3 ⏰ Gallery Viewing: 1:00PM-4:00PM 🎤 Panel: 2:00PM-3:00PM (With Brooklyn Kascel, Carlos Javier Ortiz, Danny Wilcox Frazier, Jordan Gale, Ron Haviv, & Zun Lee). 🎟️ RSVP for free at puffinculturalforum.org 📍20 Puffin Way, TEANECK, NJ – Gray Zones was inspired by the semiquincentennial of the United States, which feels less united with every passing day. Yet the reality is that all of us, whether we are urban or rural, queer or straight, born in the USA or elsewhere, share similar struggles, loves, hardships, and joys. The dominant narrative is invested in dividing us to concentrate wealth and power in the hands of the few while keeping the rest of us on the margins. This exhibition – an extraordinary collection of work by highly accomplished photographers – challenges viewers to reconsider traditional lines of division. It invites us to see ourselves in each other, regardless of race, class, or other differences. It reminds us that solidarity is not only possible but necessary if we are to continue as a nation. nina_berman @shepreebright dannywilcoxfrazier @jordangalephoto @ronhaviv_vii @ista_maza @brooklynn.kascel @eakirklandphoto @jonlowenstein @carlosjavierortiz zunleephoto – #bergencounty #njart #nycart #photographyexhibit #viifoundation