Thresholds 2025: The Bold Edition

About

Thresholds 2025: The Bold Edition features works by international street photographers who are looking at our changing world with fresh eyes, capturing the colors, shapes, stories and attitudes that will define public spaces in the weeks and months to come.

Whether it’s urban architecture, unexpected portraits, surprising encounters or sensorial compositions, whether you’re seeking vivid verité or mute vintage aesthetics, they took a bright and daring outlook on the world around us. The question at the heart of this exhibition is about transition, and our ability to capture a single public moment that will tell a daring story about the shifts and pivots that define life.

Offering an expanded view of the world and street photography as a practice, this juried annual open call brought together sights and visions for a virtual exhibition and a month-long projection-based exhibition at the Helms Design District in Culver City, CA, to be held every night during May 2025.

The Juror

Kara Felt is the Lawrence S. Friedman Curator of Photography at The San Diego Museum of Art. She joins the Museum from the Denver Botanic Gardens where she curated multiple exhibitions including Tanya Marcuse: Laws of Nature and Ansel Adams: Early Works. In 2023 she curated This Is Britain: Photographs from the 1970s and 1980s at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., where she served as the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow in the Department of Photographs from 2017 to 2021. Felt has held curatorial roles in several major photography departments, including at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the New York Public Library, and has taught at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and Metropolitan State University of Denver. She received her Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

Juror Statement

At a time when people around the globe become increasingly drawn into the virtual worlds of smartphones and other devices, public spaces remain vital sites of interaction and display. From communal celebrations and crowds in motion on city streets to more private moments of introspection unfolding in the public realm, this exhibition brings together photographers looking at our changing world with fresh eyes and an expanded sense of how the camera can reveal the spectacle of everyday life.

While street photography continues to capture our lives as individuals and communities, in 2025, it also reveals how smartphones structure that experience, both connecting and isolating us. In these photographs, we see teenage girls posing for their iPhone’s cameras or listlessly scrolling, baseball fans texting from their seats during the game, and tourists looking at their phones rather than the skyline. The photographers in this exhibition bear witness to the varied ways that technology shapes modern existence while also picturing the more analog moments that are still so valuable for the social fabric, all to better understand the way we live now.

Features

Thresholds 2025: The Bold Edition will feature:

• In-Person Opening Reception & Panel Discussion – Thursday, May 1, 2025 at 6:30pm @ Helms Design District in Culver City, CA RSVP HERE!

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