Exhibitions: Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition

Lauren Andersen. Anonymous Birthdays, 2007. All rights reserved

Artist Statement

The changing faces of Brooklyn are the people who pass through, live, and represent Brooklyn, in a constant state of movement. The heart of Brooklyn is beating with everyone else in celebration. This digital image was taken in northern Uganda while a few residents of Brooklyn worked to give a mass birthday party for children who may not even know how old they are.

18 Comments

This is interesting as a photo and a story, yet seems almost totally irrelevant to the subject of the exhibition. This is not a photograph about Brooklyn, it is a photograph about Uganda. The Brooklyn dwellers hidden inside this photograph represent something about the place they live through their actions, yet they *are* hidden, appended as an afterthought to the main subject through a caption.

I am a little torn about my reaction to this image - while the heart of Brooklyn existing outside of Brooklyn is a wonderful idea, I am not sure it represents really the changes in Brooklyn.

This is in Uganda! Not Brooklyn!

Brooklyn has always been very generous.

Beautiful photo - just wish these Brooklynites were more obvious in it.

Beautiful picture of pure joy in the middle of sadness. I was going to question the relevance to Brooklyn, but realized that the internationalism of this image proves the global reach of every neighborhood--something we all need to realize more. The changing face of Brooklyn is changing because the face of the world itself is, and quickly, whether we accept it or not.

This is a really gorgeous photograph. It is very far from Brooklyn (in many ways) - but is possibly one of my favorites in this collection.

interesting image, but where is Brooklyn? This could have be taken anywhere, including another country.

Wow, I really loved this concept. Enough to overlook my criticism of many of the other photographs - their reliance on the accompanying descriptive text. This image speaks volumes about Brooklyn's changing and expanding world view and self of self.

this reminds me of easter sunday - the baloons are like jellybeans and all are looking ot the sky - love love this photo

Stunningly beautiful image although I'm not sure how much it talks to me about the changing faces of Brooklyn

beautiful foto...but what does it have to do with BKLYN?

This is a stretch.

It would have been great to see some of the Brooklynites who made this happen. It's a bit of a stretch.

I'm glad people in Brooklyn are helping those in Uganda, but this is not brooklyn.

Well. Uganda? THat just isn't Brooklyn. But itt's beautiful photo

Pretty, but no sense of place . . . how is this Brooklyn, and not some other American city?

that was really nice of them to do that — Posted by anonymous